TV's new spin on the beloved Muppets - from Bob Kushell (3rd Rock from the Sun, American Dad!) and Big Bang Theory's Bill Prady - piggybacks off some of the more mature, real-world elements introduced in the 2011 Jason Segel co-penned film, in an attempt to bring in viewers who grew up adoring these lovable Jim Henson-created variety show players. And seeing as how The Muppets already come complete with a showbiz angle and a meta-style of humor, one would think it wouldn't be difficult to give them a soft update for the TV landscape of 2015.
Inserting them into the faux documentary TV comedy format however, as this new show does, feels like the lesser of all available options as the show becomes more about servicing that gimmick than the characters. The combination may sound good out loud, but in execution it proves to be not that inventive. Basically, it's taking an older property and square-pegging it into something modern audiences might find more digestible. Another example might be rebooting Nightmare on Elm Street using the "found footage" horror format. The two properties are so specific that they run the danger of clashing and canceling out what makes them each great individually.
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