A US pressure group is spitting feathers over The Muppets over its ‘interspecies relationships’ (Picture: ABC/Andrea McCallin)

American Christian group One Million Moms has called on its members to help get The Muppets taken off the air for being ‘too adult’.

The group say that the new series is aimed at ‘a mature, modern audience and addresses subjects not suitable for family viewing.’

It also references the advert Kermit the Frog appeared in which he calls the programme ‘an adult Muppet show.’

The Muppets, which will air on Sky 1 in the UK, is set ‘behind the scenes’ as the gang make episodes of their new programme.


One Million Moms said: ‘The mature version of The Muppets will cover a range of topics from sex to drugs. Miss Piggy came out as a pro-choice feminist during an MSNBC interview. The puppet characters loved by kids in the 1970s and 1980s and beyond are now weighing in on interspecies relationships and promiscuity.

One Millions Moms aren’t impressed with ‘pro-choice feminist’ Miss Piggy (Picture: Reuters)

‘ABC hopes children watch the show and predict they would enjoy some of the humor, but 1MM would disagree. It is not the show it once was. ABC has ruined The Muppets. How many parents want to explain the punchline of sexually charged jokes to young children?’



They urge members to contact ABC to ‘encourage the network to drop all plans to air the program.’

ABC, a US TV network, told ITV it would take any formal complaint seriously.

One Million Moms have had gripes with new TV shows before. In June they launched a petition against new Fox programme Lucifer, which sees the devil move to L.A. and help the police fight crime.

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