Gay Muppets in Tinseltown

While Ernie and Bert's live-in relationship has always raised an eyebrow or two, there have never been any openly gay Muppet characters - until now.

The Henson Company is currently shopping around a pilot for Tinseltown, a sitcom about a gay male couple in Hollywood who adopts a child.

Of course, being a Henson show, one of the males is a pig (an actor named Bobby) and the other is a bull (Samson, Bobby's manager and longtime companion).

At a recent appearance at San Diego's Comic-Con International, Brian Henson admitted that he wanted to do a show about a male couple mainly because he can't do female voices.

Buzz indicates that Tinseltown is hilarious and outrageous, but no word yet on when it will make it to TV. Logo, why haven't you snapped this up yet?