Sabrina Carpenter (center) with Fozzie, Miss Piggy, Kermit, Gonzo and other Muppets Mitch Haaseth/Disney Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment The trailer for Disney's Muppet Show special opens with Kermit the Frog walking past a series of photos from the show's 1970s heyday while wistful-sounding piano music plays. As he sits down at his desk backstage, Kermit notices the music is coming from Rowlf. "Have you been playing this whole time?" Kermit asks. "What did you think it was - some kind of sentimental montage in your head?" Rowlf replies. "We're doing the show again, frog!" That's the general vibe of the trailer: The Muppet Show is returning (for at least one time) more or less as people remember it. The opening number plays the music and lights the lights, Statler and Waldorf heckle from the balcony, and human guest stars - Sabrina Carpenter, Seth Rogen and a newly announced Maya Rudolph - interact with the Muppets. Watch it below. Related Stories TV 'Percy Jackson' Goes Off Book in Season 2 Finale: Tamara Smart, Courtney B. Vance Break Down Their Crucial Scene Business "Streamflation" Is Real: U.S. Inflation Data Shows Soaring Price of Streaming Video Services The special, streaming on Disney+ starting Feb. 4 and airing on ABC that night, is intended as a back-door pilot for an ongoing show. The show is the latest attempt to bring the Muppets back to primetime TV, following a string of shows that include the mid-1990s effort Muppets Tonight, ABC's 2015-16 comedy The Muppets and more recent Disney+ efforts Muppets Now and The Muppets Mayhem. Rogen and Carpenter are executive producers of the show, with 20th Television, Disney Branded Television, The Muppets Studio and Rogen's Point Grey Pictures producing. Point Grey's Evan Goldberg, James Weaver and Alex McAtee also exec produce along with David Lightbody, Leigh Slaughter and Michael Steinbach for The Muppets Studio, Albertina Rizzo, Matt Vogel, Eric Jacobson and director Alex Timbers. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up Live Feed 'Marshals' Trailer Hints at Major Tragedy in Kayce Dutton Series YouTube What's Late Night TV In the TikTok Era? 'The Tonight Show' Finds a New Formula Live Feed History's 'MonsterQuest' Is Getting a Spinoff Hosted by Sapphire Sandalo (Exclusive) united kingdom 'Saturday Night Live U.K.' Names Lisa Clark Commissioning Executive Yahya Abdul-Mateen II 'Wonder Man' Review: Ben Kingsley and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II's Bromance Powers Disney+'s Endearingly Low-Key Marvel Series Sports How to Stream the 2026 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Season Online Live Feed 'Marshals' Trailer Hints at Major Tragedy in Kayce Dutton Series YouTube What's Late Night TV In the TikTok Era? 'The Tonight Show' Finds a New Formula Live Feed History's 'MonsterQuest' Is Getting a Spinoff Hosted by Sapphire Sandalo (Exclusive) united kingdom 'Saturday Night Live U.K.' Names Lisa Clark Commissioning Executive Yahya Abdul-Mateen II 'Wonder Man' Review: Ben Kingsley and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II's Bromance Powers Disney+'s Endearingly Low-Key Marvel Series Sports How to Stream the 2026 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Season Online