Late night muppet talk show coming!
 

Yesterday, Audiencesunlimited.com announced plans for a new late-night Henson talk show called “Late Night Buffet”. The show will star puppets and celebrity guests and will be recorded in front of a live studio audience at Henson Studios.

However, Audiences Unlimited originally posted info about the series stating that it would include Muppet characters and celebrity guests. Pictures of Kermit the Frog were also posted on the Audiences Unlimited website.

A Henson insider has confirmed that some of this information is incorrect. This proposed pilot program will not feature Kermit and other familiar Muppet characters, rather it will focus on new puppet characters developed by The Jim Henson Company. Audiences Unlimited stated that the show will air on TBS and according to our Henson insider, the network has not yet been confirmed.

Adult fans in California have a very special opportunity to attend a live taping of "Late Night Buffet" on July 22 in Hollywood. You can register for your tickets on-line at AudiencesUnlimited.com. Audiences Unlimited distributes free tickets for hundreds of network shows in Los Angeles and across the country. More information on this project should be announced later this week by The Jim Henson Company.

As of late, The Jim Henson Company has focused on more adult puppet endeavors. A live performance of Jim Henson's Puppet Improv was held in March at the U.S. Comedy Festival.

http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2006/060606.shtml

http://www.audiencesunlimited.com/overview.htm

Raph's Girl note: I wonder tho if some of the original muppets will have guest spots??? Either way this'll be my excuse to switch over to TBS for once. :P

This is actually a great idea. I'm much looking forward to this. Let's hope if original Muppet characters aren't part of the main cast, that they'll at least make some apperances.

Sounds interesting, although I will admit that my interest in this show would be 10X greater if the original Muppets were on it.

I love the original muppets, but I like the new characters too.

You know who I'd like for them to interview, but won't? Grover. :evilgrin:

I orderd 6 tickets tonight I live in the area so when this taping happens next month I'll tell everyone how it goes..I'm so excited I have always loved henson stuff. Even if the old muppets aren't in it I'm sur eit will be great.

It's nice to see these things actually come into fruition. Years ago, quite a few Muppet projects fell through, including much better movies than Muppet Wizard of Oz, and several tries for a new Muppet show.

Now, to clear anything up, do NOT expect any appearances from Kermit, Gonzo, or even Beaker. They are owned by Disney under the umbrella of "muppet holdings inc." (pretty unmagical name, reminds me of Krusty's Caiman Islands offshore holdings). Ditto for Sesame characters, since they are owned by Sesame Workshop. In fact, the best chance at a cross over would be Fraggle Rock, since JHC still owns their copywrite.

But other than that, I'm GLAD we have more adult Puppet shows like this and Wonder Showzen. It proves that it isn't a children's medium, and not dated from the 1950's, when they didn't have cartoons specifically made for TV.

I got 6 tickets for my friends and I anyone in los angeles plan on going? cause I think this will be allot of fun!

No classic Muppets huh? Hmm, sounds like they're going for the more adult (see: perverted) audience eh? Sounds kickass. I'll watch.

I don't know if you've ever Kermit or Miss Piggy or any of the others do appearances on late night talk shows, but their humor tends to be pretty adult. That said, I don't see your connection between 'new muppets' and perversion.

And Disney is more than willing to pimp out the Muppets they own if they get something about it, so I wouldn't count them out yet. But since Sesame Workshop is a nonprofit, those characters usually only appear where they can serve the public welfare.

actully grover and elmo as well as bigbird and a few others including cookie monster have been on allot of shows cookies spot on martha stuert living was so freaking funny!

Well I said usually. ;) But it's rare unless they're promoting some Sesame program or campaign... like last year (?) when they had their 'healthy eating' campaign... or whatever it was called.

Haha! Yeah, I remember that... she had to tie cookie monster up because she accidentally said "cookie" and he started begging.

Some new info on Late Night Buffet with the names of some of the characters!

From Sci-fi wire:

The host and sidekick will be puppet characters Augustus Pfiffle and Delbert Kastle. Even the band will be puppets, consisting of character Gina Cappellini and her pet monkeys.

you just made me cry slightly!! aghh this is such great news! I so can not wait to go to this now! it really sounds soooo old school Henson muppety to me. I hope the old school humor is there.

I just got some more information it's going to be on TBS!!

This I know as it says so in the first article I put up. :lol:

oh my bad hahahaha