The Muppets film, "Muppets from Space", released by Columbia Pictures in 1999. In 2000, Henson was sold to EM.TV & Merchandising AG for $680 million. However, EM.TV was plagued with financial problems and the Henson family re-acquired the company in 2003, with the exception of the rights to the "Sesame Street" characters, which had been sold by EM.TV to Sesame Workshop. Fourteen years after initial negotiations began, Disney acquired the Muppets intellectual property from the Jim Henson Company for $75 million on February 17, 2004. The acquisition consisted of the Muppets and "Bear in the Big Blue House" properties, as well as
Muppets Tonight Muppets Tonight Muppets Tonight is an American live-action/puppet family-oriented television series created by Jim Henson Productions and featuring The Muppets. Much like the "MuppeTelevision" segment of "The Jim Henson Hour", the show was a continuation of "The Muppet Show", set in a television studio, rather than a theater. It first ran on ABC from March 8 to July 14, 1996, with reruns on Disney Channel from 1997 to 1998. The premise of "Muppets Tonight" was that Clifford was the host of a variety/talk show on KMUP. The show stuck closely to "The Muppet Show" format of various skits (mostly featuring