Revivals that never happened

[Jamey Greek]

Bob.Boyett approached Jaleel White for a Family Matters reboot in 2016 but he turned it down.[I]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bewInKmF6Ik

[JamesG]

A "Hogan’s Heroes" sequel series was announced in 2019 with original series co-creator Al Ruddy, Village Roadshow Entertainment Group, and Rough Pictures.

The new series was said to be a single-camera action adventure comedy series set in present day focusing on the descendants of the original heroes, now scattered around the world, who team up for a global treasure hunt.

Nothing happened with it.

[JamesG]

It was announced in 2023 that John Cleese and his daughter, Camilla, were working on a new "Fawlty Towers" w/ Rob Reiner producing. It was to feature Basil Fawlty navigating the modern world with the daughter he never knew he had.

Cleese was clashing with the BBC at the time and said that his new series would not air on it as they were "too woke". He also commented against them removing "offensive" episodes, such as 'The Germans'.




Also, a new version of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" was announced in 2021 for TBS w/ "Schitt’s Creek" actress Emily Hampshire.

Norman Lear was also onboard as a producer and praised Hampshire for being perfect in the new role.

There have been no updates and Hampshire was recently cast as E.D.I.T.H. in Marvel's "Vision" series.

[JamesG]

Mayim Bialik has confirmed that plans for a proposed reboot of "Blossom" have been halted.

According to Bialik, she and "Blossom" creator Don Reo discussed revisiting the series shortly after "The Big Bang Theory" ended in 2019. Reo quickly whipped up a script that brought everyone into the modern world, and as Bialik recalls, “He found our characters exactly where many of us find ourselves — funny, lost, wandering, meandering, and torn. The script is beautiful.”



Unfortunately, following multiple mergers within the entertainment industry, new executives were put in charge of developing such things, and Bialik “was told the project was no longer able to be produced.”

She and Reo met with the new executives and, “For no particular reason, we were told ‘no,'” Bialik says. “We asked for the rights so that we could let the market decide if audiences might want to see these characters all these years later. We were told Disney reserves the rights in case they ever want to do a reboot of Blossom.

The reboot we all wanted to do was now, with Don’s script. We will likely never know … why they would not let us bring these beautiful stories to people who love 90s nostalgia and who have a special place in their hearts for Blossom.”

https://tvline.com/news/blossom-rebo...on-1235492494/

[Jamey Greek]

Originally Posted by TV Guy

I would like to see the Coach revival pilot. If I remember correctly, Pam Stone (Judy) was going to be part of it, too. And they had plans for Jerry Van Dyke to guest star had it gone to series.

I would love to see it too!!! Marc Summers of Double Dare stated in an interview that the movie Bring me the head of Dobie Gillis of which he served as a producer was going to be a 13-episode series if the movie went well but the movie did not do well so CBS pulled the plug on the series.

[JamesG]

A new "The Brady Bunch" series was announced in July 2012 with Vince Vaughn and Lloyd Schwartz as executive producers.

CBS ordered a script by Mike Mariano (Raising Hope, My Name is Earl), with the new series centering on a divorced Bobby Brady with children of his own. He gets remarried to a woman who also has kids, and together they also share a child. In addition, their ex-spouses are still part of their lives.

Nothing happened with this.

[JamesG]

Hulu has recently passed on Chloé Zhao and SMG's Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale.

[biffbronson]

A Dragnet revival in the '80s to star Kent McCord never materialized due to the death of Jack Webb (in '82).