... Muppet Emmy AMERICAN actress Rita Moreno has won an Emmy for her guest spot in ATV's The Muppet Show. Her Emmy came in the category Single Performance, Best Supporting Ac tress, Variety or Music. ...

... Electric Muppets A. A THE MUPPETS are to be a main feature of the 1978 Blackpool Il luminations display from September 1 to October 29. Announcing this at a recent meeting of the resort's Attractions and Leisure Committee, the director of Electrical Services ...

... Line up for The Muppets GUESTS lined up for the new series of ATV's The Muppet Show, which starts on the network at 7.00 pm on Friday November 17 include Harry Belafonte, Alice Cooper. Danny Kaye, Kris Kristofferson. Rita Coolidge, Cheryl Ladd. Liberace ...

... Started work on third Muppets WORK has now started at ATV's Elstree studios on the third series of The Muppet Show which, last week, won for Jim Henson and Frank Oz the Variety Club's joint ITV Perso nalities for 1977 award. Among the guests taking part ...

... Shirley and Muppets to go to Montreux ITV also sending John Curry spectacular THE official ITV entry for the Golden Rose of Montreux light entertainment festival is to be an edition of The Muppet Show. This is either a bold or a rasn decision, depending ...

... Muppets take Golden Rose ATV's The Muppet Show won the Golden Rose of Montreux at the 17th contest which ended in the Swiss town last Saturday. The British entry had been one of three that many people had singled out: the other two were a very funny film ...

... Emmy for Muppets ATV's The Muppet Show has won an Emmy. The award, from the Natio nal Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in the US, was made for outstanding comedy variety or music series. This is the first time in the history of the Emmy awards ...

... 'Doesn't matter if acts in the Muppets are American' ASKED at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch in London last week why there were so many American acts in ATV's The Muppet Show, Lord Windlesham. the company's managing director, said that he didn't think ...

... for his performance in Jesus of Nazareth. Jim Henson Best Light Entertainment Show The Muppet Show. Bryan Holgate and David Chandler Best Design --The Muppet Show. Franco Zeffirelli Best Single Play Jesus of Nazareth. ...

... children on Sunday ATV has been quick to respond to a criticism in The Times last week levelled at ITV over the scheduling of The Muppet Show. A Times reader in Cambridgeshire, who is six, wrote last week to complain that she and her brother, who is three, cannot ...

... blowing your top (a Muppet's head blows off); and the incomprehensible Lena Home asks a Muppet to help her find her dressing-room key and he hits her with a mallet, declaring, Beat that. The only remotely funny item fea tured a muppet chef attempting to ...

... for his designs on Captain Cook in The Explorers series; and John McCrae, for his production of the serial Ballet Shoes. The Muppet Show, produced at ATV, Elstree, has also received two nominations. One nomination is for the execu tive producer and/or producer ...