The family of Muppet creator Jim Henson has succeeded in a surprise bid to repurchase the company they sold to a German media firm in 2000. The Henson family decided only two weeks ago to bid for The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A variety show that’s still revered for its absurdist, slapstick humor debuted 50 years ago. It starred an irreverent band of ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ The family of Muppet creator Jim Henson has succeeded in a last-minute bid to repurchase the company they sold to a German media firm in 2000. The Henson family decided only two ...

MUNICH: After ten years of being off the air, The Muppet Show is set to return to German pay TV on ProSiebenSat.1’s Sat.1 Comedy. Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and Gonzo are among the ...

Although The Muppet Show was set in a New York theater, the series was actually shot in Britain since no American production companies bought into the idea. But Sir Lew Grade was willing to give Jim ...

BERLIN - German media company EM.TV said Wednesday it is selling the Muppets' creator, The Jim Henson Co., back to the Henson family for a fraction of what it paid at the height of the tech boom.