Songs, songs and more Christmas songs: ABBA, Michael Bublé, Meghan Trainor, Gary Barlow Manchester Orchestra+ The Muppets get Animal-istically festive

Christmas music is wonderful. Granted it may wear thin when you’re in retail and listening to the same tracks day after tinsel-saturated day, but for a great many of us, music adds some extra whimsically charming, emotionally uplifting specialness to a season already brimming with a magical sense of hope Continue Reading

Movin’ Right Along? Kermit and Fozzy find a way to keep things going (virtually) during lockdown #COVID19

SNAPSHOTJoin us as we all get Movin’ Right Along into 2021 with a song in our hearts, a banjo on our knee, and a bear behind the wheel. Happy New Year!!! ….from The Muppets. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) If ever there was a year that sapped, almost completely, our will Continue Reading

The Muppets are back on TV! It’s time to light the … well you know …

  SNAPSHOT The Muppets return to prime time with a contemporary, documentary-style show that, for the first time ever, will explore the Muppets’ personal lives and relationships, both at home and at work, as well as romances, break-ups, achievements, disappointments, wants and desires; a more adult Muppet show, for kids Continue Reading

The meaning of Muppet life: Fozzie the Bear and Kermit try their hand at ’70s style existential banter

  The recent movie-driven resurgence of Jim Henson’s marvellous creations the Muppets,largely thanks to The Muppets (2011) and Muppets Most Wanted (2014), in which Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie the Bear and the the rest of the gang have jumped back into the zeitgeist in all their hilarious, madcap glory, is as Continue Reading