Muppets Now

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Muppets Now announcement.

Muppets Now is a short-form series being developed for the Disney+ streaming service to be released in 2020.

Development history

In February 2018, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Disney plans a "reboot" for the Muppets on Disney+, their streaming video service scheduled to launch in 2019. THR also reported that a search for a writer was in-progress.

The series would join other original programming for the network from the company's Marvel and Star Wars properties, as well as new versions of High School Musical, The Parent Trap, Father of the Bride, and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

In February 2019, a website called "Splash Report" published an item about the Josh Gad-penned project Muppets Live Another Day, which would follow the events of The Muppets Take Manhattan. The project would subsequently shelved by September.

In May 2019, The DisInsider reported a series of improvised Muppet shorts would be produced for the platform. The approximate ten-minute shorts would take the formats of "three different segments of a game show, a cooking show, and a talk show."

An official announcement was released on The Muppets' social media accounts on August 23, 2019. A press statement written and signed by Kermit the Frog (with sections redacted in black marker under the legal restriction of Joe the Legal Weasel) announces Muppets Now, an unscripted short-form series featuring celebrity guest stars. A teaser video featuring Kermit and Joe the Legal Weasel was simultaneously screened at the Disney + panel at the D23 Expo.

Kirk Thatcher served as director for the shorts.