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Topic: Jim Henson

Miss Piggy on “The Muppet Show” (Disney/Mitch Haaseth)

Everyone should live like Miss Piggy

Melanie McFarland
Trash Heap in "Fraggle Rock: Back To The Rock" (Photo courtesy of Apple)

We are all the Fraggles' Trash Heap now

Alison Stine
Caroll Spinney with 'Big Bird' during Florida Supercon at the Broward County Convention Center on Friday, July 13, 2018 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Photo by (Michele Eve Sandberg/Invision/AP)

Big Bird was my pen pal

CJ Casciotta
(Netflix/Kevin Baker)

"Dark Crystal" creators on life in Thra

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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"The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" on Netflix (Netflix/Kevin Baker)

Seductive "Dark Crystal" fantasy expands

Melanie McFarland
Derek Mio as Chester Nakayama in "The Terror: Infamy" (Ed Araquel/AMC)

August TV is hot and crowded

Melanie McFarland
Muppet Kermit the Frog and his operator Steve Whitmire (Getty/Lawrence Lucier)

Banishing the frog man

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Brian Henson (Getty/Astrid Stawiarz)

Henson slams kermit actor

Gabriel Bell
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Kermit the Frog; Steve Whitmire (AP/Tonya Wise)

Kermit actor "devastated"

Taylor Link
Muppet Kermit the Frog and his operator Steve Whitmire (Getty/Lawrence Lucier)

Muppet Court Intrigue

Matthew Rozsa
Dave Goelz

The original muppeteer

Kevin Smokler

Generation X's real obsession

Elizabeth Hyde Stevens
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Kyle Minor

Muppets escape from "SNL"!

Brian Jay Jones
Jane Henson (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Associated Press

"30 Rock" is "The Muppet Show"

Alexander Chee
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