... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... producer or director making the greatest contribution to the company's output in 1977. It was for his work as a director on The Muppet Show and as producer/ director of The Entertainers starring Bruce Forsyth and Rita Moreno. Leonard Brett was a drama pro ducer ...

... Whitmore and will be seen on BBC-2 in mid-April. Last year the Golden Rose, the premier award at Montreux, was won by ATV's The Muppet Show. This year ITV's official entry is Thames's Tommy Steele and A Show, transmitted in September of last year. ...

... Ernest Maxin Morecambe Wise Christmas Show (BBC) also nominated John Ammonds Mike Yarwood in Persons (BBC) Jim Henson The Muppet Show (ATV) Peter Whitmore The Two Ronnies (BBC) Best situation comedy Ronnie Baxter Rising Damp (Yorkshire) also nominated ...

... No surprises in ITV's Christmas Two shows for Bruce Forsyth MORECAMBE & WISE. Bruce Forsyth, Benny Hill and The Muppets. From such predictable ingredients, lifted in part from the now outdated BBC Christmas Cookbook and savoured with a blockbuster film ...

... World 1978, BBC 36 9 Comation St. Mon. Granada 35 9 -The Muppet Show, ATV 35 9 Sale of the Century. Fri. Anglia 35 Wales West I This Is Your Life. Thames 31 1 Coronation St. Wed. Granada 31 1- The Muppet Show, ATV 31 4 Coronation St. Mon. Granada 30 4 Wednesday ...