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'Muppets Now' review: Disney Plus series adapts to YouTube generation

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LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Unto most every TV-watching generation, a new Muppets show is born. The original “Muppet Show,” which ran from 1976 to 1981, had Jim Henson’s felt puppets take over a vaudeville theatre to perform songs, slapstick sketches and more unabashedly cheesy puns than its bewildered guests could count.

The “Muppets Tonight” reboot, which ran a single season from 1997 to 1998, swapped the theatre for a television studio, where the Muppets frantically threw together a variety show while letting the audience in on all the drama happening in the control booth.

A sour 2015 follow-up (“The Muppets.”) tried for a “30 Rock” meets “The Office” vibe, imagining a world in which Miss Piggy had a late-night show and the rest had.

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