Disney+ Axes ‘Muppets Live Another Day’ Comedy Series

Disney+’s planned comedy series focused on the Muppets has been dropped following the exit of writers Adam Horowitz, Eddy Kitsis, and Josh Gad.

Titled Muppets Live Another Day, the supposed series will be set in 1984, around the same time where Muppets Take Manhattan takes place. It follows Kermit the Frog banding together with the Muppets to look for their lost friend.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Horowitz, Kitsis, and Gad departed the project due to creative differences with Muppets Studios’ new VP. The trio began working on the series in February this year with then VP Debbie McClellan. When McClellan ceded her post, Disney CEO Bob Iger brought in Disney Parks Live Entertainment senior VP David Lightbody to take over the helm.

Lightbody’s new designation gave him a few ideas on what the Muppets comedy should look like, something that clashed with Horowitz, Kitsis, and Gad’s vision for the show. Both parties failed to reach an agreement with the story treatment, causing the three to drop the show lest the work they put in be for nothing. THR sources stressed that both parties parted amicably.

However, Horowitz, Kitsis, and Gad’s exit will not affect the “unscripted” series Muppets Now, one of the new Disney+ programs announced at D23 last month. The show will have Kermit and Miss Piggy appear alongside celebrity guests.

Elsewhere, both Horowitz and Kitsis, as well as Gad, have their own projects in the mill for Apple TV+, the company’s forthcoming streaming service. Horowitz and Kitsis are set to debut Amazing Stories, an anthology show based on Steven Spielberg’s 1985 TV show of the same name. Gad, on the other hand, is part of the voice cast of Central Park, an animated musical comedy series.

Disney+ launches November 12th, along with a slew of original programs such as High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Forky Asks a Question, The World According to Jeff Goldblum, Encore, and The Mandalorian.