Only a month ago, it was announced that the
Muppets show that was in the works for Disney+ and would involve Josh Gad would no longer be moving forward —
find out more on that here. However, the Jim Henson Company are still working on something for the upcoming streaming service.
Disney+ has ordered a talk show comedy series called
Earth to Ned. Each episode will reportedly be half an hour in length and feature an alien and his lieutenant interview celebrity guests. Below is an official description of
Earth to Ned courtesy of Disney and the Jim Henson Company:
The comedy follows Ned, a blue-skinned alien, and his lieutenant Cornelius, who were sent to scout Earth for an eventual invasion — but instead became obsessed with popular culture. Now they host a talk show, broadcast from the bridge of their spaceship hidden deep underground, where they interview our most precious commodity — celebrities — to talk about Ned’s current pop culture obsessions. Ned will be bringing real-life celebrity guests to his ship from across the known universe and interviewing them, late-night talk show style, in hopes of producing the ultimate talk show — making Ned a celebrity and putting him further off-mission. And the more Ned learns about our human culture, the more obsessed he becomes.
Marwar Junction Productions will produce Earth to Ned alongside the Jim Henson Company. The characters of Ned, Cornelius, their artificial intelligent BETI, and all of the other puppets which will feature on the show come directly from Jim Henson's Creature Shop — who are the same team responsible for Netflix's Dark Crystal: The Age of Resistance.
As well as all of that information, some images of the titular host and his sidekicks were released (via The Hollywood Reporter) — one of those you can see above and the other you can check out below: