The Muppet Show 50th anniversary program with special guest star Sabrina Carpenter was nominated for a Television Critics Association Award on Friday (June 12). It is competing for best achievement in variety, talk, or sketch with the usual suspects in that category at awards shows – The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Saturday Night Live.
Carpenter was an executive producer of The Muppet Show special, which aired on ABC and Disney+ on Feb. 4. She also appeared on the program, engaging in fun banter with Miss Piggy and singing a pair of No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits – “Islands in the Stream” (which she performed alongside Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy) and her own “Manchild.”
Seth Rogen and Maya Rudolph were guest stars on the program. Rogen also served as an executive producer.
Two classic, but recently embattled, CBS programs are nominated — The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for program of the year and 60 Minutes for best achievement in news and information. The Late Show, which was hosted by David Letterman before Stephen Colbert took it over in 2015, ended a 33-year run on May 21. 60 Minutes is going through a turbulent passage in its 58-year history, with the recent firings of Cecilia Vega, Sharyn Alfonsi and arguably the show’s most respected and high-profile correspondent, Scott Pelley.
