![]() ![]() Bringing Kermit across the pond, Grade agreed to finance the Elstree Studios-based production of The Muppet Show and ATV, as part of the ITV network, put the show on the air across the UK with a worldwide syndication deal to follow. It was based on these specials that ATV proprietor Lew Grade showed an interest. In a conscious effort to do more adult comedy, two pilots were produced with more mature themes – The Muppets Valentine Show and The Muppet Show: Sex And Violence – but the three American networks of the time all passed on the show. Matters weren’t helped by a briefly recurring puppet-centric segment on the first season of Saturday Night Live, which proved unpopular both with viewers and in the show’s writers’ room. Having found success with Sesame Street, Henson struggled to convince network heads that a show with puppets could be as entertaining for adults as it was for children. ![]() Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Jim Henson was trying to get puppeteering out of its pre-school pigeonhole.
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