In theory, saying that the reboot phase was over might have been too soon.
Last year, we continually got news updates left and right about old faces returning in a new light. Some of which have already made their return while others are waiting off-stage until sometime next year to return to the spotlight.
The latest reboot announcement has just made it’s appearance. With a jump back to the eighties, a new reboot of the classic children’s series “Muppet Babies” is slated to arrive on Disney Junior sometime in 2018.
Here is what we currently know. Credit to news outlet Variety for the press release details;
Disney Junior is rebooting the 1980s children’s cartoon series “Muppet Babies.” Production on the new show, slated to premiere on the cable channel in 2018, has already begun.
The original “Muppet Babies” was a hand-drawn animated series featuring pint-size versions of Jim Henson’s classic characters. The series ran on Saturday mornings on CBS from 1984 until 1991.
“We are proud, and a little bit giddy, to begin production on our new version of the much-loved ‘Muppet Babies,’” said Nancy Kanter, executive vice president, original programming and general manager, Disney Junior Worldwide. “Parents will delight in seeing their favorite Muppets in the mixed animation style they remember from the original series, and kids will be introduced to this warm and zany world made just right for the Disney Junior audience.”
The new, CG-animated revival will, like the original, be geared toward children ages 4-7 and feature two 11-minute adventures per episode. The show will be a co-production between Disney Junior, Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media’s Content & Media group, and The Muppets Studio.
Tom Warburton (“The 7D”) will executive produce the series with Eric Shaw (“SpongeBob SquarePants”) serving as story editor.
“Bringing ‘Muppet Babies’ to Disney Junior is a wonderful opportunity to reach a new generation of viewers and to creatively build on the innovative original series,” said Debbie McClellan, vice president, the Muppets Studio. “We hope to engage and delight the nostalgic fans while also entertaining new kids, parents and diverse audiences through heart and humor as only the Muppets can deliver.”
I myself must admit that I did not watch the series growing-up. Or if I did I have no recollection of it. So the series has no level of familiarity as other rebooted series had.
Just going off what I was able to research in regards to “Muppet Babies”, it appears to have been highly popular. The series had a total of eight seasons and over one-hundred episodes. And much of the plot seemed to be slice-of-life with the imagination of the characters often being a driving point for the narrative.
Going off that and the first image of the new series as seen above. It looks promising. In a lot of ways life has not changed a great deal since the eighties. But it has. That alone can easily lead to some new and interesting stories.
Join the conversation: What do you think of the “Muppets Babies” reboot?
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