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Article: small screen
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 28, 1995
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It's time to put on make-up
Yes, it's time to light the lights once again as everyone's
favourite solid-eyed felt amphibian, Kermit the Frog (below, at the
Oxford Union), is going to be given a new lease of life. Last week
Brian Henson, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Jim
Henson Productions, caused hearts everywhere to leap in ecstasy by
announcing that The New Muppet Show is going into production.
Thirteen half-hour episodes of the new series have been bought by
American station ABC, to be broadcast in early 1996, and we can
only suck our thumbs and hope that a British terrestrial company
will follow suit. The show is described tantalisingly as "a Muppet
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