Aug
14
The Muppets Are About To Go To War
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Get ready for dueling Muppets, with teams backed by two of the world’s largest media companies.
The fuzzy characters created by Jim Henson now have Walt Disney and Time Warner investing in them, and that means a lot more programming and promotion for everyone from Oscar the Grouch to Fozzie Bear.
Disney got the ball rolling in May, when its ABC TV network gave a greenlight to The Muppets, a half-hour comedy series making its debut on Sept. 22. Then on Thursday, Time Warner’s HBO channel announced a five-year deal to carry “Sesame Street,” doubling the number of episodes in production and securing rights to air them first on TV and on the Web. The deal also gives HBO the rights to a new “Sesame Street” Muppet spinoff series.
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