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In this week's preview for the next episode of Showtime's dramedy Kidding,'The Cookie,' Jeff takes a "hands on" approach to Seb's 'Pickles on Ice' plan.

Looks like we're in for an extended stay at Mr. Pickles’ Puppet Time, with Showtime renewing Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry's dramedy Kidding for season 2.

Welcome to Bleeding Cool’s weekly review of the first season of Showtime‘s Kidding as we take a look at the inaugural season's fifth episode ‘The New You.’

Welcome to Bleeding Cool’s weekly review of the first season of Showtime‘s Kidding as we take a look at the inaugural season's fourth episode ‘Bye, Mom.’

In the following preview for Showtime's Kidding s01e04 'Bye, Mom,' Jeff addresses concerns over the show's influence with a skeptical Seb (Frank Langella).

Welcome to Bleeding Cool’s weekly review of Showtime‘s Kidding as we take a look at the first season's third episode, ‘Every Pain Needs a Name.’

In Showtime's preview for Kidding's ‘Every Pain Needs a Name,’ Jeff takes a very "Mr. Pickles" approach to dealing with his son Will's newest "hobby."

For nearly a half-century, these main Muppets used song, dance, and rubber duckies to make generations of kids into better human being Of course, adults have shown their "thanks" by hijacking the conversation and spending an obscene amount of time trying to definitively assign – one way or another – a sexual orientation onto two[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool’s weekly review of the first season of Showtime‘s Kidding, as we share our thoughts on second episode ‘Pusillanimous.’

Welcome to Bleeding Cool's weekly Kidding Rewind, as we look back on our review of the Showtime comedy series' premiere, 'Green Means Go.'

In the preview for the next episode of Showtime's Kidding ('Pusillanimous'), Jeff's push for professional independence puts him in Seb's crosshairs.

I'm a massive Muppets fan, and while they haven't always been featured in the best films, the pure fondness factor will earn a lot of latitude When the trailer for The Happytime Murders first came along I was on cloud nine — a combination of gumshoe noir, a puppet-inhabited world, and set in a sex-fueled[...]

It's like that wonderful period where music was really bouncy and really melodic." – Renée Elise Goldsberry Muppet Babies executive producer Tom Warburton and Muppets Studio collaborated on a female character that would both compliment and as well as contrast Piggy Statler and Waldorf, Bunsen and Beaker, Rowlf the Dog, Rizzo and Dr[...]

To that end, sources have told The Hollywood Reporter exclusively that The Muppets would be getting their second reboot in the past four years as part of the new service's programming slate; and that Disney is actively searching for a writer with a new take. The Muppets Studio was acquired by Disney in 2004, but it[...]

#StrangerThings pic.twitter.com/eCoiyUgh24 — Sesame Street (@sesamestreet) October 27, 2017 In the teaser slip for "Sharing Things," Oscar the Grouch first warns us of some of the "trashy" spoilers ahead; and then we see Grover (Lucas), Ernie (Dustin), and two unidentified Muppets (Will and Mike) in their Ghostbusters gear, just like their counterparts from the series[...]

If the next time you hear Kermit the Frog he sounds a little different, you're not imaging things: long-time puppeteer Steve Whitmire, whose been working with The Muppets since the The Muppet Show in the late '70's, is reportedly no longer working with Muppets Studio Muppet fan site Tough Pigs reached out to the company[...]

Netflix Announces "The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance" Prequel Series Coming

In an e-mail send to their probably-far-fewer-than-a-million subscribers, the One Million Moms activist group in concerned about the new version of The Muppets TV show, airing on ABC from next week. The mature version of "The Muppets" will cover a range of topics from sex to drugs Miss Piggy came out as a pro-choice feminist during[...]

There is nothing like seeing your ex with a new person… that awkward moment that seems to go on forever… so ABC has captured that in a promo for The Muppets with Kermit The Frog, Nathan Fillion and Miss Piggy's trailer. I'm not sure about the concept for the new series… but the ad campaign has[...]

ABC has released a new ad for their Tuesday night line-up which starts with the new take on the Muppets, followed by the comedy Fresh Off The Boat and then Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D The ad features Kermit the Frog, Randall Park as Louis Huang and Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson. The commercial talks about the[...]

ABC is bringing back the Muppets to prime time… and doing it in a different way Focusing on their personal lives and parodying some of the more popular sitcoms, this isn't the variety based Muppet Show of our youth But it brings back all of the Muppets from Kermit, Fozzy, Gonzo to Beeker, Dr[...]

A couple of years ago Kermit the frog stopped being known as "La Rana Rene" in Latin-America. However, he is still known in an unofficial way by that

In 1968, Jim Henson planned a Thanksgiving Special, an hour long TV show, with humans and muppets, celebrating the season. He wrote about using the colours of autumn, of filming in the New England countryside, with the muppet character emerging from the undergrowth But also the importance of music in the show. Fifty years late, Roger Langridge[...]

It seems like an odd pairing, The Muppets and Lady Gaga, but if you think about it – and if you watch this first bit of footage – it actually makes some sense. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoI9KF4xQno[/youtube] A little sexual innuendo from Pepe kicks things off, with Gaga looking like a Muppet herself as she seeks advice on how to[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Brendon Connelly I'm still excited that The Muppets will be back in our cinemas next March with The Muppets… Again! This time around, Kermit is the star – which is just how I like it, thanks The lead humans are Ricky Gervais, as Dominic, a sidekick to the master criminal – and[...]

The Muppets will be up-ending Europe for their new feature film, the Fraggles will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of their enchanted, enchanting Rock, and a new prequel to the Dark Crystal will tell us how the crystal was cracked. For a Henson nut like me, it promises to be a very good year But should[...]

Put your feet up to read this… otherwise they may just start kicking you. In The Muppets, Roger Langridge brings us song., He repeatedly does this, in Muppets and other books, sing song, meter, rhyme to talk about whatever he thinks is relevant (or not) to the plot and The Muppets has given him carte blanche[...]

It just works. Marvel publish their first previously-unpublished Muppets comic, with the Roger Langridge Four Seasons story that got dumped at Boom! through licensing issues It is spring, love is in the air, and we get a courtship between Animal and a gorilla It actually gets rather touching and I warn the more sensitive amongst you[...]

That Roger Langridge's final Muppet Show comics never saw print at Boom!, caught in the twisting wind between Muppets owners Disney and Marvel and… whatever the hell it was that was going on there. But in July, Marvel will begin to publish those unseen comics Four issues of them, entitled Four Seasons. Langridge described the delay; As far[...]

Rebecca Lewis writes for Bleeding Cool. The Muppets couldn't beat the worldwide phenomenon that is The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part One on the big screen, but a repeat of an aging TV movie with Kermit, Miss Piggy and co has instead given American TV network The CW smash ratings. In 2008's The Muppets Christmas: Letter to[...]