Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy have announced their split after 30 years of relation.
In a joint statement posted on Twitter Miss Piggy and Kermit say they will continue to work together on The Muppets.
They released the same statements on their Twitter accounts explaining they had been “squabbling”.
The new series of The Muppets will air this fall and it will be aimed at an adult audience touching on subjects The Muppets have never talked about.
“After careful thought, thoughtful consideration and considerable squabbling, we have made the difficult decision to terminate our romantic relationship,” the ex-lovers said.
To quote Miss Piggy, both stars have “moved on” following the split.
In a film released on YouTube, it is revealed that Kermit is now seeing a brunette sow called Denise.
“She works in the ABC promotion department,” he said.
“Her name is Denise. She’s a pig. I have a things for pigs.”
Miss Piggy is in a relationship with the actor Topher Grace.
The Muppet Show is returning to TV with a contemporary grown-up reboot.
The show has been commissioned by ABC and promises a “more adult” take on much-loved characters such as Kermit.
The Muppet Show series will be filmed in a “contemporary, documentary-style” and will explore their personal lives and relationships.
For the first time ever, the series 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.
The Big Bang Theory‘s producer Bill Prady is behind the series.
The recent pilot got a standing ovation at an ABC screening last month, according to Entertainment Weekly.
The Muppets, created by puppeteer Jim Henson, first appeared on TV in the 1950s, getting their own show in the 1970s.
They recently made a return to the big screen in 2011’s The Muppets and 2014’s Muppets Most Wanted, featuring Ricky Gervais.
Their TV comeback series is one of several new comedies picked up by ABC after the US pilot season.
The Muppet Show, Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock’s puppets have been donated to the Museum of American History in Washington.
Miss Piggy has now joined her on-screen paramour Kermit the Frog and other 19 puppets created by Jim Henson in the Smithsonian Institution’s collection.
Cookie Monster, Bert, Ernie, Elmo and Fozzie Bear were also “inducted” during a special ceremony on Tuesday.
The event took place on what would have been Jim Henson’s 77th birthday.
Jim Henson died in 1990, while his wife and collaborator Jane died in April this year.
Their daughter Cheryl, who is president of the Jim Henson Foundation, said she was “so happy to have [her] father’s work be part of the cultural heritage of this country”.
“When you look at these different characters, you can hear their voices,” she said.
Miss Piggy has now joined her on-screen paramour Kermit the Frog and other 19 puppets created by Jim Henson in the Smithsonian Institution’s collection
“They are like living beings.”
The fame-seeking Miss Piggy will be on view within the museum’s American Stories exhibition, which starts in March 2014.
Several other Muppets and Sesame Street characters will be part of a broader puppetry display that will open this November.
“The Muppets are very much a touchstone to my childhood,” said museum director John Gray.
John Gray called comedy and variety programme The Muppet Show, which ran from 1976 to 1981, “the best example of American vaudeville”.
The donation also includes Scooter, the Swedish Chef, Grover and Count Von Count, as well as Boober Fraggle and Travelling Matt from Fraggle Rock.
Many of the puppets show the characters as they were first constructed.
These include Rowlf, a scruffy brown dog created for a dog food commercial in the early 1960s who later joined The Muppet Show as a pianist.
“Kermit was Jim’s alter-ego, but Rowlf was Jim’s alter-ego without the ambition,” said Karen Falk, an archivist with The Henson Corporation.
“He was Jim on the weekend, Jim in a hammock.”
The Museum of American History is already home to Oscar the Grouch, Kermit and the cast of Jim Henson’s early TV show Sam and Friends.
Google celebrates Jim Henson 75th birthday anniversary featuring a doodle with 5 Muppets.
Jim Henson Google Doodle
The logo is HTML5-powered and it is interactive, clicking on the circle below each character, it follows the cursor with its eyes, and double-clicking on one, it opens its mouth. One of them throw its glasses, and other eats its neighbor.
Brian Henson, Jim Henson‘s son, is now chairman of the Jim Henson Company.
“He loved gadgets and technology. Following his lead, The Jim Henson Company continues to develop cutting-edge technology for animatronics and digital animation, like this cool Google doodle celebrating Jim’s 75th birthday. But I think even he would have found it hilarious the way today some people feel that when they’ve got their smartphone, they no longer need their brain.” Brian wrote in Google’s blog.
"The Muppets were a family" for Jim Henson.
“He loved dogs, particularly goofy ones. And he lived for those moments when everyone laughed so hard they couldn’t talk,” Brian Henson said. He recalled his father’s passion for games, being allowed to stay up late to watch his father’s appearance on TV, and his father’s feeling that “the Muppets were a family.”
This is the second time when Google pays tribute to Jim Henson on its homepage. Google replaced its logo with a rotating cast of Sesame Street characters honoring the 40th anniversary of the television show Sesame Street, two years ago. Jim Henson was asked to help with this show in 1969.
Jim Henson helped with Sesame Street show
“Born in Greenville, Miss., in 1936, Henson created his fuzzy, goggle-eyed puppets in the ‘50s, and they soon began appearing on local television while he attended the University of Maryland (where he met his future wife and the show’s co-producer, Jane Nebel).
In 1969, Kermit the Frog, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch and the rest of the lovable furry troupe began to appear on PBS’s new ”Sesame Street.” By the ‘70s, the Muppets gained a hit prime-time show (and Miss Piggy) and, soon, hit the big screen. (Their newest feature film is November’s ”The Muppets,” starring Jason Segel and Amy Adams.)” The Washington Post about Jim Henson.
Jim Henson and Kermit
Jim Henson was born on September 24, 1936 and died on May 16, 1990. The Public Broadcasting Service, which hosted Sesame Street, said he was ”the spark that ignited our fledgling broadcast service.”(New York Times)
Jim Henson was “our era’s Charlie Chaplin, Mae West, W. C. Fields and Marx Brothers,” said the chairman and chief executive of the company that produced Sesame Street. (New York Times)
Jim Henson Google doodle inspired people to create interesting animation, the Muppets singing Rolling in the Deep (Adele), Boom Boom Pow (the Black Eyed Peas), or Earth Angel (The Penguins), or Chop Suey! (System of a Down).
Dinosaurs was the last show Jim Henson produced.
Jim Henson died of septic shock caused by lungs abscesses (Streptococcus pyogenes). On May 21, a public memorial service was held in New York City at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine and . another one was held on July 2 at Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London.
No one wore black (it was Jim Henson wish). Dixieland jazz band sang When The Saints Go Marching In, Harry Belafonte sang Turn the World Around (the song he had debuted on The Muppet Show), Big Bird (Caroll Spinney) sang Kermit the Frog’s signature song, Bein’ Green. Six of the core Muppet performers sang Jim Henson’s favorite songs, then Just One Person began with Richard Hunt singing alone, as Scooter.
“As each verse progressed, each Muppeteer joined in with their own Muppets until the stage was filled with all the Muppet performers and their beloved characters,” Chris Barry recalled.
This image was recreated for the 1990 television special The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson and inspired Richard Curtis to write the growing-orchestra wedding scene of his 2003 film Love Actually.
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Jim Henson Google Doodle: Muppets sing Boom Boom Pow (video)
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