Watch ‘The Muppets’ 10-Minute Pitch That Landed New TV Show

Due to popular demand, and The Muppets’ successful Comic-Con panel, ABC has released the 10-minute pilot presentation that was used to convince the network to revive our felt friends’ television careers (that was “never meant to be seen by the public”, as the lead-in ominously reveals).

Check out the full video below, and let us know if you’ll be tuning in to see The Muppets on Twitter! The video features plenty of footage that we already saw in the trailer, showing how ABC wanted to bring the whole gang together for this series, and how it was nearly derailed because a certain pig didn’t want to do the show.

Watch The Muppets pitch video after the jump! He follows through on that description pretty well when he says Miss Piggy is making his life a “bacon-wrapped hell on Earth”. Instead, it’s what the show’s team screened for ABC in order to get the series an official green light.

Despite the exhausted format, the energy of the presentation (directed by The Office’s Randall Einhorn, and written by The Big Bang Theory’s Bill Prady and The Simpsons’ Bob Kushell) more than makes up for it. There are a few truly amusing moments, but the overwhelming sense from the clip is just happiness at seeing the Muppets back in action. “The Muppets” is produced by ABC Studios and The Muppets Studio.

Back in May, ABC announced that The Muppets will air this fall in the Tuesday 8 PM time slot, debuting September 22.