‘Muppets Now’ Arrives On Disney+ This Summer
Last summer,word began to spreadthat Disney was developing a short-form series featuringThe Muppetsfor the Disney+ streaming service. An official announcement soon followed, revealing that the series would be calledMuppets Nowand it would land sometime in 2020. And thanks to a recent press release, that wide release window has been officially narrowed down toSummer 2020. Get the details about the series below.
Yesterday, Disney announced a new round of casting for this weekend’s Disney Family Singalong Vol. 2 on ABC. The Muppets are set to open that show, and buried in the press release is this line:
“Fans of The Muppets can also see more of Kermit, Miss Piggy and friends in the upcoming Disney+ series, Muppets Now, premiering this summer.”
At last year’s D23 Expo, the company first revealed that the unscripted Muppets series would be coming to Disney+.
Coming exclusively to#DisneyPlusin 2020,@TheMuppetsproudly present MUPPETS NOW, a new short-form unscripted series! I’d love to tell you more, but Joe The Legal Weasel is right behind me. Gulp!pic.twitter.com/UCXdaopQJR
— Kermit the Frog (@KermitTheFrog)August 09, 2025
There are currently ten different pieces of Muppet-related content on Disney+, ranging fromThe Muppet Movieto a Disney Junior Muppet Babies series calledShow and Tell. But there’s always room for more (includingThe Muppets Take Manhattan…why isn’t that on there?), and the company has at least seemed loosely willing to revitalize the brand after the disappointingMuppets Most Wantedhit theaters in 2014.
The characters haven’t appeared in their own movie since then, but on the TV side of things, The Muppets appeared in an ABC mockumentary-style series that only lasted one season. After that,FrozenandBeauty and the BeastactorJosh GadandOnce Upon a TimecreatorsEdward KitsisandAdam Horowitzweredevelopinga Muppet revival calledMuppets Live Another Day; that project ended up beingscrappedlast fall, but you can read some of their pages from ithere. SoMuppets Nowwill mark the first big return of the beloved characters in several years. (Gad, Kitsis, and Horowitz are now working on aBeauty and the Beastprequelspin-off show.)
Early rumors aboutMuppets Nowclaimed the show would be comprised of segments of a game show, a cooking show, and a talk show featuring an unnamed Muppet girlfriend, but none of those rumors have been confirmed yet. Here’s hoping the short-form format will free up the writers to create memorable, engaging, hilarious Muppet-related stories that can stand on their own. The Muppets are variety show veterans, after all, so there’s plenty of precedent for them being able to work wonderfully in short bursts.
