Why ABC Is Rushing Its Muppets Revival to Air

Despite split, Miss Piggy and Kermit will continue to work together

Just a year after their fairy-tale wedding, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy are splitting.

"Piggy and I have gone our separate ways romantically," said Kermit during ABC's Television Critics Association summer press tour in Los Angeles today. But the two will continue to appear together on ABC's revival of The Muppets, which is being rushed to air just seven months after getting the green light.

The Muppets will be the first Muppets series in prime time since Muppets Tonight, which ran on ABC from 1996 to 1998.

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