Like The Muppet Show, the ABC series integrated backstage calamities as Kermit and friends tried to get each week’s show on air. ABC cancelled Muppets Tonight in 1998 after two seasons.

If the “SNL” collaboration had gone better, he might never have created “The Muppet Show,” one of the enduring pop culture totems of the 1970s and 1980s, and the iconic Muppet movies that ...

Disney’s Muppets Studio has denied that a revival of Jim Henson’s classic variety series The Muppet Show is in the works. “The Muppets Studio is not in production at this time on any new ...