TV Guy
01-03-2002, 01:10 PM
It's not a reunion, but more of a behind-the-scenes movie similar to the ones done for "Gilligan's Island" and "Partridge Family" recently.
From the Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodreporter/television/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1232613):
NBC develops 'Three's Company' telefilm
Jan. 03, 2002
NBC has a thing for old ABC series. The peacock is developing a telefilm based on all the behind-the-scenes drama that has made "Three's Company" a staple of "E! True Hollywood Story" and the rest of the tell-all/whatever-happened-to circuit. The sitcom, which ran on ABC from 1977-84, was savaged by critics but ranked as a top five Nielsen hit in the late 1970s. Suzanne Somers, who co-starred in the comedy with John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt, made headlines in 1980 when she held out for a huge raise and a cut of the show's syndication profits (she was soon written out), and no doubt the Chrissy crisis will be a key plot point in the telefilm. NBC's interest in the "Three's Company" milieu comes on the heels of CBS' success with its "Surviving Gilligan's Island" telefilm. But peacock insiders note that NBC was on the ABC sitcom dirt-dishing beat back in 2000 with its "Brady Bunch" telefilm based on cast member Barry Williams' memoir "Growing Up Brady."(Cynthia Littleton)
From the Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodreporter/television/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1232613):
NBC develops 'Three's Company' telefilm
Jan. 03, 2002
NBC has a thing for old ABC series. The peacock is developing a telefilm based on all the behind-the-scenes drama that has made "Three's Company" a staple of "E! True Hollywood Story" and the rest of the tell-all/whatever-happened-to circuit. The sitcom, which ran on ABC from 1977-84, was savaged by critics but ranked as a top five Nielsen hit in the late 1970s. Suzanne Somers, who co-starred in the comedy with John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt, made headlines in 1980 when she held out for a huge raise and a cut of the show's syndication profits (she was soon written out), and no doubt the Chrissy crisis will be a key plot point in the telefilm. NBC's interest in the "Three's Company" milieu comes on the heels of CBS' success with its "Surviving Gilligan's Island" telefilm. But peacock insiders note that NBC was on the ABC sitcom dirt-dishing beat back in 2000 with its "Brady Bunch" telefilm based on cast member Barry Williams' memoir "Growing Up Brady."(Cynthia Littleton)