When the Swedish Chef made his television debut in 1975, he didn't just join the Muppet cast; he redefined what those characters could look like. Most Muppets relied on felt hands and controlled ...

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It’s time to play the music! It’s time to light the lights! It’s time to meet the Muppets on “The Muppet Show” tonight! Jim Henson’s band of puppet misfits is returning 50 years after the show ...

Looking back 50 years later, The Muppet Show feels like something that shouldn’t have worked—and somehow worked perfectly. A felt frog hosting a weekly variety show? A backstage held together by chaos ...

Kermit the Frog, the most famous creation of the late puppeteer and producer Jim Henson, has a lineage almost as old as TV itself. Kermit first appeared as a character on a local TV show in Washington ...

After nearly 50 years, "The Muppet Show" returns, "back [says Kermit, your amphibian compere] on the very stage where it all started and then ended and then is maybe starting again depending on how ...