{"id":475936,"date":"2026-02-15T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/475936\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:00:10","slug":"hi-yah-the-muppet-show-was-a-smash-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/475936\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi-Yah! ‘The Muppet Show’ Was a Smash Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The people have spoken, and they sure did love the recent\u00a0Muppet Show<\/a> special.<\/p>\n

According to Disney, the revival has reached 7.58 million viewers since its February 4 premiere on ABC. Initial viewing numbers were notched at 3.07 million, so it\u2019s more than doubled (or 147%, according to the Hollywood Reporter<\/a>) that audience in the week since it came out. That new metric includes Disney+ and Hulu and is slightly above the weeklong numbers for the season premieres of ABC\u2019s Abbott Elementary (6.64 million) and\u00a0Shifting Gears (7.57 million).<\/p>\n

Critics and audiences loved\u00a0The Muppet Show special, with many calling it a return to form<\/a>. After its premiere, fans have been clamoring for more Muppets, which this special definitely opens the door to; when Disney first picked it up, reports indicated this could kick off a new run<\/a> of the 1976 show. With the audience responding well to it, the numbers being there, and folks online wondering what actors would be good to act alongside the Muppets, it\u2019s just a matter of what call Disney decides to make and when.<\/p>\n

Let us know in the comments below what you\u2019d want to see in a continuation of this\u00a0Muppet Show\u00a0revival and who\u2019d be a perfect guest star to pop in.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The people have spoken, and they sure did love the recent\u00a0Muppet Show special. According to Disney, the revival…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,193173,80463,80462,348],"class_list":{"0":"post-475936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-the-jim-henson-company","12":"tag-the-muppet-show","13":"tag-the-muppets","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}