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If you don’t have time to catch The Muppet Show when it airs live, you can stream it with a subscription to Disney+. With ads, users will pay $11.99 a month while without ads, you’ll be paying $18.99 a month. This is a standalone plan that allows streaming on multiple devices at a time.
A one-episode reboot of "The Muppet Show" airs on February 4. Jim Henson, the show's late creator, always hoped they'd live on. We'll hear excerpts from a Morning Edition interview Henson gave in 1986.
Maya Rudolph and executive producer Seth Rogen also appear in the variety half-hour, which returns to the theater, premise and format of the original 1970s series.
The new special, which is executive-produced by Seth Rogen and guest stars Sabrina Carpenter, promises to bring us back to where it all started in 1976.
Kermit the Frog stopped by "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Thursday to discuss "The Muppet Show" special and Magic Johnson's yacht. The special airs Wednesday.
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The Muppets are my rabbi, and they should be yours
You may have heard the refrain that we live in dark times. It is true. Just as true is that nothing is as effective at combatting darkness as joy. It is an emotion essential to the art of envisioning better things.