Will Muppets Create a TV Comeback? NBC Buys Human-Puppet Comedy From Jim Henson Company

Jim Henson It is a good week to become a puppet. 2 days following the Muppets designed a surprise appearance on Saturday Evening Live and 2 days prior to the discharge of their latest feature film, NBC has purchased a hybrid human-puppet comedy in the Jim Henson Company, Deadline reviews. VIDEO: The Muppets crash Jason Segel's SNL party The Brand New Nabors follows an individual family and also the complications that ensue from living across the street from a household of puppets. John Hoffman (Afterlife) and 30 Rock executive producer John Riggi will write the script, that they developed with Lisa Henson and also the Jim Henson Company. NBC most particularly found positive results mixing puppets and humans using the 1980s family comedy, ALF. Would you like to see puppets back around the small screen?