"Muppets" to get new sitcom.You guessed it NBC

[Kenny Atkinson]

Kinda original if read the concept.http://www.montrealgazette.com/ente...nson+Studios+puppet+comedy/5749254/story.html

 

[Bob1370]

Seems odd because when it came to producing a new movie, the Muppets hooked up with ABC's parent firm, Disney. Wouldn't you figure ABC would get first dibs on the latest show in a lucrative franchise that's about to get new life in the theaters?

 

[imhomerjay]

Studios produce shows for other companies. What's more, it's not as if it will be Kermit & company.

 

[Tim-In-Houston]

Henson's heirs sold rights and trademarks to "The Muppets" (sans the Sesame Street characters which are owned by Sesame Workshop) to Disney about a decade ago.

 

[RadioJunkieMike]

uh, if you actually READ the article, it's a sitcom featuring puppets produced by Henson Studios. No already-famous Muppets involved. So your headline is misleading, at the very least.

 

[quadraphonic]

ABC should counterprogram with an updated Dinosaur Family (was that the name of it?). And Perfect Strangers.

 

[wdb2003]

Seems odd because when it came to producing a new movie, the Muppets hooked up with ABC's parent firm, Disney. Wouldn't you figure ABC would get first dibs on the latest show in a lucrative franchise that's about to get new life in the theaters?

ABC did air a Muppet show in the 90's. I think around 96 on Sundays I actually enjoyed it. Too bad it got cancelled

 

[Markxxx]

I am glad it's not the Muppets because as Stewie says "Now we have wrong sounding Muppets" (I think it was Family Guy's Stewie)

 

[Yeziknoradio]

I am glad it's not the Muppets because as Stewie says "Now we have wrong sounding Muppets" (I think it was Family Guy's Stewie)

Well, Miss Piggy had a voice change in the last season of the original Muppet show. (or one of those original run seasons...)

 

[Studio20]

True. Frank Oz left and is no longer Miss Piggy, though his replacement has the voice spot on. Mr Oz apparantly is no fan of the current movie. And it was Stewie who made that reference. The replacement Kermit, God Bless him, never quite nailed it, though these days its more on the mark.

 

[MsMusicRadio]

If Bill Maher can duplicate the Johnny Carson hands in pocket walk, somebody else can do Kermit

 

[milwaukee_dave]

ABC did air a Muppet show in the 90's. I think around 96 on Sundays I actually enjoyed it. Too bad it got cancelled
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Yes, the reboot was titled, "Muppets Tonight!" and featured many of the same characters from the original series. It ran for two seasons -- the first (spring 1996) being on ABC; a subsequent season (fall 1997) ran on the Disney Channel. Twenty-two episodes were produced.

 

[DToTheJ]

ABC should counterprogram with an updated Dinosaur Family (was that the name of it?). And Perfect Strangers.

The former show was titled, simply, "Dinosaurs."

The latter show should have been extinct much sooner.

 

[LKellerIII]

If Bill Maher can duplicate the Johnny Carson hands in pocket walk, somebody else can do Kermit

Doing an impression of a voice is one thing, but replicating a voice (trying to get as close to the original as possible) is more difficult.

Exhibit 1: the Warner Brothers cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny, etc.) have sounded off (and a bit odd) since the death of Mel Blanc - and I believe his replacement was his son - the person most likely to have similar vocal characteristics - genetically speaking.

 

[KeithE4]

Doing an impression of a voice is one thing, but replicating a voice (trying to get as close to the original as possible) is more difficult.

Exhibit 1: the Warner Brothers cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny, etc.) have sounded off (and a bit odd) since the death of Mel Blanc - and I believe his replacement was his son - the person most likely to have similar vocal characteristics - genetically speaking.

Same goes for Blanc when he had to do Arthur Q. Bryan's "Elmer Fudd" voice after Bryan passed away in the late 1950s. As great as Blanc was, he just couldn't get Bryan's vocal characteristics right. Hal "Otis the Drunk" Smith also did a few WB cartoons as Fudd. Billy West did the voice in the recent Geico commercial.

IIRC, Noel Blanc took over for his dad for a few years in the 1990s but didn't want to do it fulltime. I believe Billy West does most of the Warners characters nowadays.

 

[vchimpanzee]

If Bill Maher can duplicate the Johnny Carson hands in pocket walk, somebody else can do Kermit

Doing an impression of a voice is one thing, but replicating a voice (trying to get as close to the original as possible) is more difficult.

Exhibit 1: the Warner Brothers cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny, etc.) have sounded off (and a bit odd) since the death of Mel Blanc - and I believe his replacement was his son - the person most likely to have similar vocal characteristics - genetically speaking.

Dad may have trained him to take over, but that's not what happened.