Sabrina Carpenter, Seth Rogen and Maya Rudolph are the human guests on the Feb. 4 special.
special opens with Kermit the Frog walking past a series of photos from the show’s 1970s heyday while wistful-sounding piano music plays. As he sits down at his desk backstage, Kermit notices the music is coming from Rowlf.
“Have you been playing this whole time?” Kermit asks. “What did you think it was — some kind of sentimental montage in your head?” Rowlf replies. “We’re doing the show again, frog!”is returning more or less as people remember it. The opening number plays the music and lights the lights, Statler and Waldorf heckle from the balcony, and human guest stars — Sabrina Carpenter, Seth Rogen and a newly announced Maya Rudolph — interact with'Percy Jackson' Goes Off Book in Season 2 Finale: Tamara Smart, Courtney B. Vance Break Down Their Crucial Scenethat night, is intended as a back-door pilot for an ongoing show. The show is the latest attempt to bring the Muppets back to primetime TV, following a string of shows that include the mid-1990s effortare executive producers of the show, with 20th Television, Disney Branded Television, The Muppets Studio and Rogen’s Point Grey Pictures producing. Point Grey’s Evan Goldberg, James Weaver and Alex McAtee also exec produce along with David Lightbody, Leigh Slaughter and Michael Steinbach for The Muppets Studio, Albertina Rizzo, Matt Vogel, Eric Jacobson and director Alex Timbers.Kimberly NordykeSony Executives Criticize Blake Lively’s Behavior Around ‘It Ends With Us’ Release: “She Did Bring It All on Herself”The Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2026 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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