{"id":2264725,"date":"2026-02-03T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2264725"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:29:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:29:35","slug":"the-muppet-show-review-seth-rogens-faithful-reboot-of-a-tv-classic-plays-the-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-muppet-show-review-seth-rogens-faithful-reboot-of-a-tv-classic-plays-the-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Muppet Show\u2019 Review: Seth Rogen\u2019s Faithful Reboot of a TV Classic Plays the Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">In the two decades since acquiring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1204342\/\">The Muppets<\/a>, Disney has never appeared to have a clear idea of what to do with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001345\/\">Jim Henson<\/a>\u2019s beloved characters.<\/p>\n<p>Things started off strong with the 2011 film \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1204342\/\">The Muppets<\/a>,\u201d a charmingly nostalgic reboot that went out of its way to remind us why we loved Kermit, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11795199\/\">Fozzie<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2549798\/\">Miss<\/a> Piggy, and Gonzo in the first place. The film\u2019s success suggested that a new era of big-screen adventures was on the horizon, but that fizzled out after 2014\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2281587\/\">Muppets Most Wanted<\/a>\u201d disappointed at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>The franchise then shifted its efforts to the small screen with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0695080\/\">Bill Prady<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0476274\/\">Bob Kushell<\/a>\u2019s 2015 mockumentary series (which was also titled \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1204342\/\">The Muppets<\/a>\u201d), which stripped the characters from their vaudeville roots and presented them in a dryly hilarious single-camera sitcom that didn\u2019t shy away from adult situations. That series remains one of the boldest and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the two decades since acquiring The Muppets, Disney has never appeared to have a clear idea of what to do with Jim Henson\u2019s beloved characters. Things started off strong with the 2011 film \u201cThe Muppets,\u201d a charmingly nostalgic reboot that went out of its way to remind us why we loved Kermit, Fozzie, Miss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2264726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2264725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018The-Muppet-Show-Review-Seth-Rogens-Faithful-Reboot-of-a.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264727,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264725\/revisions\/2264727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2264726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}