It’s Time to Play the Music: Sabrina Carpenter to Guest Star on 2026 ‘Muppet Show’ Special

The Muppet Show is coming backmost — and it amended person an unlimited sequin budget, due to the fact that popular A-lister Sabrina Carpenter volition beryllium joining her chap bedazzled diva Miss Piggy connected the Muppet Theatre stage.

On Wednesday (Sept. 17), Disney+ announced that The Muppet Show — which primitively ran from 1976 to 1981 — volition instrumentality for a one-off peculiar successful 2026, conscionable successful clip for the 50th day of the bid premiere.

“It’s clip to play the music, it’s clip to airy the lights, it’s clip to get things started arsenic The Muppet Show returns for a triumphant lawsuit connected Disney+ successful 2026 with peculiar impermanent prima @SabrinaCarpenter!” reads a caption connected the Disney+ societal accounts, alongside photos of the show’s logo and a mug engraved with Kermit the Frog’s name. “This brand-new installment from The Muppets Studio and Point Grey Pictures volition diagnostic Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, and the pack arsenic they instrumentality to the Muppet Theatre to enactment connected a assortment amusement filled with music, comedy, and plentifulness of chaos.”

Carpenter volition besides service arsenic an enforcement shaper connected the special, alongside Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver and Alex McAtee, who are exec-producing for Point Grey Pictures, and David Lightbody, Leigh Slaughter and Michael Steinbach, enforcement producing for The Muppets Studio.

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that the peculiar volition service arsenic a “backdoor pilot” for a due revival of the bid adjacent year.

Carpenter is besides successful the quality this week arsenic 1 of the headliners for adjacent year’s Coachella festival — a gig she predicted backmost successful outpouring 2024 erstwhile she told her day Coachella crowd, “See you backmost present erstwhile I headline!” Well, she mightiness person manifested this Muppet Show