Oh, The Telegraph. This is the same paper that had people thinking that Christopher Nolan was going to cast Cher as Catwoman in a movie he hasn’t even thought about yet.

Today, they take on The Muppet Show:

In the movie, written by Forgetting Sarah Marshall star and writer Jason Segel, the Muppets reunite to save their studio with one last variety show.
Should the film go well, it opens up the possibility of a television programme, also written by 28-year-old Segel.

A source said: “Jason is a massive Muppets fan and is seen as the man to finally bring The Muppet Show back to TV.

“It will obviously have all its old fans but Jason’s comedy is hugely popular with youngsters so it will open it up to a whole new audience.”

The source added: “If the movie script is popular Jason will write the TV series too. He is already coming up with ideas for it.”

This is like saying: If Twilight does well, maybe they will make a series out of it. Of course The Muppet Show could come back (it did in 1996 as Muppets Tonight, but only aired 10 episodes on ABC before being relegated to The Disney Channel), but it’s complete hogwash to assume that the Segel script (which is real) is close enough to done that he’s already thinking about boarding a long-running TV series.

He’s part of the Apatow crew, and those guys have no shortage of work right now.

If the new Muppet movie does well; yeah, they might think series. But until then, we’re going to call bullshit on this rumor.