ABC's 'The Muppets' Scores Full-Season Pickup

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Looks like we're getting three more episodes for a total of 16 in Season 1 of "The Muppets"...

ABC's 'The Muppets' Scores Full-Season Pickup

The reboot from Bill Prady and Bob Kushell will run for a total of 16 episodes.

ABC is showing faith in The Muppets.

The network has picked up the freshman reboot for a full season — for a total of 16 episodes.

The additional three-episode pickup is six shy of the standard back-nine order, with insiders stressing the shortfall is to accommodate the network's midseason fare including family comedy The Real O'Neals and its all-black Uncle Book redo.

The Muppets, which hails from Big Bang Theory co-creator Bill Prady and Bob Kushell (3rd Rock From the Sun) ranks as Tuesday's highest-rated new series among adults 18-49. The comedy, a more adult-themed reboot in which Miss Piggy — now broken up with Kermit — hosts her own late-night talk show, has improved the network's Tuesday slot by 69 percent among total viewers versus last season's short-lived Selfie (7.6 million vs. 4.5 million) and 86 percent among adults under 50 (2.6 vs. 1.4).

The Muppets, from Jim Henson Co. and ABC Studios, ranks as the network's strongest-performing Tuesday half-hour in four years and has helped solidify the network's comedy brand. The series had the benefit of receiving a massive promotional push built around Kermit and Piggy's breakup that ended up going viral.

Picked up straight to series based purely on a 10-minute pilot presentation, The Muppets revival is filmed documentary style and explores the personal lives behind the famed characters, including Fozzie, Gonzo and the rest of the gang in a bigger way than the franchise has ever done before.

The Muppets ranks as ABC's final fall freshman series to get a back-order. The network picked up six additional hours of Sunday drama Quantico and added a full back-nine to Friday comedy Dr. Ken. Meanwhile, ABC recently trimmed Sunday ratings dud Blood and Oil from 13 episodes to 10. (Rookie Wicked City, which opened poorly this week, is a limited anthology series.)

Among the fall freshman class, only CBS' recently launched Supergirl as well as medical dramaCode Black and The CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend are awaiting decisions on a back-nine. (Worth noting, both Code Black and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend received additional script orders.)

The Muppets joins ABC's Quantico and Dr. Ken, Fox's Grandfathered, The Grinder and Rosewood,NBC's Blindspot and CBS' Limitless as well as Life in Pieces to score an additional episode order.

Of the fall's freshman comedy class, only NBC's Truth Be Told did not get a full-season after the network cut its order by three following its dismal debut.

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YES!!! Now let's hope we get a season 2!!!
Most likely we will, the latest episode saw an uptick in the ratings, 1.4 verus the 1.3 it got the last episode, which is probably the reason it got more episodes. Now if the show stabalizes around the 1.4-1.6 range it will easily be renewed. The next episode might pull bigger numbers, because people are always interested in the Kermit and Miss Piggy dynamic, and how Miss Piggy will react to the girlfriend problems.
 

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Yes!! With the way Vogel has been posting the past week, I was scared. This makes me feel better.
It was not just Vogel!!!!! Him Bill Bereta's wife Kirt Thatcher and others posted the same kinds of pleas for people to watch the show this week. Mostly due to the world series. They all said the same thing to DVR the show and watch it with in a 3 day time frame. Which if they wait 3 days to count viewers then we can really make a difference. If the ones that can watch it as many times as they can in that 3 day time frame then we can help keep this show on.

I was chatting with Muppet performer Mike Quinn last night and he was very concerned that with the drop in the ratings that the show could have been canceled! Now I know that the show is not perfect but the Muppets are finally on TV, and if we want the show to grow and get better then we need to be faithful watchers. The show is only 5 episodes young, and still needs time to find it's grove. So please keep watching the show!!!
 

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The Muppets, from Jim Henson Co. and ABC Studios, ranks as the network's strongest-performing Tuesday half-hour in four years and has helped solidify the network's comedy brand. The series had the benefit of receiving a massive promotional push built around Kermit and Piggy's breakup that ended up going viral.
You'd think the Hollywood Reporter would get straight that the Jim Henson Co. is not involved with this series.
 
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