After rocking out in The Muppet Show since 1975 and having starred in several Muppets movies, the show’s house band Electric Mayhem finally have their own series.
Disney+’s 10-part musical comedy The Muppets Mayhem follows the six-piece group – Dr Teeth, Animal, Zoot, Janice, Lips and Floyd Pepper, all loosely based on real-life music icons – as they team up with go-getting music executive Nora (Lilly Singh) to record their first-ever studio album.
But although Nora has grand plans to turn them into a global success, the old-school rockers struggle when they come face to face with the current music scene, and Nora finds herself having to drag them into the 21st century.
This story is from the May 06, 2023 edition of TV & Satellite Week.
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