The Muppet Show was a huge success in syndication back in the 1970s but the follow-up series Muppets Tonight ran for two short seasons before being cancelled by ABC in 1998. Is the public ready for another Muppet TV show? Will this one be cancelled or renewed for a second season? Stay tuned.
Set in a mockumentary style, The Muppets follows the lives of the crew behind talk show Up Late with Miss Piggy. Diva Miss Piggy is still driving Kermit the Frog and the rest of the gang crazy. The Muppeteer performers include Steve Whitmire, Eric Jacobson, Dave Goelz, Bill Barretta, David Rudman, Matt Vogel, and Peter Linz.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — typically around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
10/30 update: ABC has ordered three more episodes of this series. Good news?
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Note: These are the final national numbers (unless noted with an “*”). These are different from the fast affiliate numbers which are just estimates of the actual ratings. The final nationals are typically released within 24 hours of the programming or, in the case of weekends and holidays, a couple days later.
What do you think? Do you like The Muppets TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for second season?
I hated “The Office “, and I absolutely hate this new Muppets show. It sucks !!!
Love the Muppets, writing is great
I like the show! I think it get funnier every week!
The show is perfect! Love the guest stars! Love the skits…seriously! The Swedish Chef singing Rappers Delite!? Priceless! Please keep this show going! Just the way it is!
Cancel it now! It’s been ruined.
i love the new show. it seems to me it’s a continuum of all the old shows and movies. they’ve always been about doing a show. i think if they seriously are worried and need to retool that it could be incorporated into the script. imagine how miss piggy would take the negative ratings or social media if they retooled her show…
ABC Made A Mistake With The Muppet’s They Are Trying To Make This Show A Reality Show And Its Killing The Muppet’s And Making It About Miss Piggie Is The Second Thing They Did Wrong The Ratings Are Going Down Every Week Go Back To The Way It Was The Only Way To Save It PLEASE
1. Stop typing in all initial caps. Your posts are such a pain to read.
2. Punctuation! USE IT!
The Muppets isn’t a REALITY SHOW. It’s a MOCKUMENTARY-style SITCOM. There is a difference.
This is such a creative show. All of us thirty-somethings who grew up with the muppets will laugh, each and every episode. Hint: listen carefully to what Swedish Chef is saying, you CAN actually understand it.
The ratings don’t look great. If it can’t survive on ABC, I think it would be great as an Internet show of some kind (Netflix, Hulu , heck you could stick it on Youtube and have a few million views per episode).
1. Stop typing in all initial caps. Your posts are such a pain to read.
2. Punctuation! USE IT!
Sorry. Meant to respond to Samuel. My mistake.
I love the show, and my kids love the show. The “maturity” issues are much tamer than what the kids learn at school. It’s about time that a good show appeared on TV … KEEP IT ON THE AIR!!!
Families initially and excitingly gathered to see the new Muppet Show, to only find out that the show was not ‘family friendly’. That’s why the ratings dropped in the following weeks. ABC is catering this show to a minority of people that don’t mind vulgar, messed up Muppets that have perverted relationships. We keep hearing excuses that the show was suppose to be for a mature audience. (I personally don’t find any maturity in that humor) News flash: who cares? The Muppet’s success has proven to be to a family audience, as seen in the 8.5 rating from the original… Read more »
Sesame Street has indeed always been aimed at children, but the original Muppet Show was built for a more mature audience. Although the jokes were clean, they were of an adult nature, and often had double meaning. The Muppet Show was NEVER for small children. Now we get to see The Muppets in an even more “relaxed” environment. Still NOT for children, but certainly tame enough for prime time television. I think its a refreshing new take on classic humor and characters. Jim Henson would be proud of the new freedom his creation has now been given!
The big problem with the show is the snow within a show is just a talk show. They need to have them making the muppet show, that way they can do all the zany skits and really have fun with it. Keep the reality based behind the scenes stuff just change the fake show they are working on inside the show.
Muppets is fun.
If you’re like me or the rest of us who have a nostalgia about what The Muppet Show was to so many of us: A simpler time, a getaway from the mundane, a place where it was okay to be sensitive about rainbows, and also laugh hysterically at Pigs in Space’s corny joke (badump bump) then you will probably NOT enjoy ‘The Muppets’. They’ve tried to do something fresh and new and to me it just looks like rather than an escape from the mundane, they’ve embraced it and tried way too hard to make it relevant and funny…..but that’s… Read more »
I loved it 🙂 Even has me laughing here and there. I love the guest stars in every episode as well. Self-referential humor from various silver screen personalities.