Suzanne Somers pitched a Three's Company reboot starring a hologram of John Ritter

[TMC]

https://hollywoodlife.com/2022/04/27...ompany-reboot/

“I had suggested a show where you would imagine that Chrissy Snow and Jack Tripper eventually got married, and they had a child. And the child was (played by) Jason Ritter," Somers told David Yontef on the Behind The Velvet Rope podcast, according to Hollywood Life. “I had suggested this to Jason’s people and that the show would be me and Jason, but that John would appear as a hologram because it’d be like he was back and alive,” said Somers, “but Jason doesn’t want to do anything reminiscent of what his father did. So, that kind of went out of the way. That was the last time I kinda got turned on by thinking about doing a series again.” Somers added that she wouldn't do a reboot without Jason Ritter.

[Lyverbe]

"...Chrissy Snow and Jack Tripper eventually got married ... the show would be me and Jason..." She's 74 and he's 42!

Anyway, I can't imagine a reboot of Three's Company today. It just wouldn't work.

[TheLittleFaerie]

I always had the idea of a reboot, featuring Janet and Chrissy meeting back up with each other and moving back into their old apartment at their ages today to live their retirement years... sorta a Golden Girls type show.

[ThisLittlePiggy]

Jack was probably more likely to marry Janet though rather than Chrissy. In her show, would Janet visit? Did a divorced Janet later marry Larry?

[thejasoomian]

Originally Posted by TMC

https://hollywoodlife.com/2022/04/27...ompany-reboot/

“I had suggested a show where you would imagine that Chrissy Snow and Jack Tripper eventually got married, and they had a child. And the child was (played by) Jason Ritter," Somers told David Yontef on the Behind The Velvet Rope podcast, according to Hollywood Life. “I had suggested this to Jason’s people and that the show would be me and Jason, but that John would appear as a hologram because it’d be like he was back and alive,” said Somers, “but Jason doesn’t want to do anything reminiscent of what his father did. So, that kind of went out of the way. That was the last time I kinda got turned on by thinking about doing a series again.” Somers added that she wouldn't do a reboot without Jason Ritter.

But what would the show be about to be a comedy? It couldn't have the same themes as it did back then. Every time I go to Youtube it seems like another 3' s " this is not appropriate" video pops up.

[ThisLittlePiggy]

It would never work. I agree - what would the show be about? Her and her adult son?

[SitcomsHeydayfan]

Originally Posted by ThisLittlePiggy

It would never work. I agree - what would the show be about? Her and her adult son?

Exactly.

Everyone knows Jack Tripper was the reason Three's Company was & is still such a hit. Hot women in Hollywood are a dime a dozen so Suzanne was easily replaced.

So this show would never succeed without John Ritter & maybe not even then because things have changed DRASTICALLY since those days!

Plus Suzanne doesn't deserve any show related to Three's Company due to her outrageous behavior back then!

[SitcomsHeydayfan]

Originally Posted by TheLittleFaerie

I always had the idea of a reboot, featuring Janet and Chrissy meeting back up with each other and moving back into their old apartment at their ages today to live their retirement years... sorta a Golden Girls type show.

That would be a big time bomb since it would be viewed as a Golden Girls ripoff.

[TheLittleFaerie]

Originally Posted by SitcomsHeydayfan

That would be a big time bomb since it would be viewed as a Golden Girls ripoff.

I think it could do ok for a couple seasons at least, it wouldn't be the 1st time a show was a ripoff of another.... The Munsters were seen that way in regards to the Addams' Family by many ppl, and I Dream of Jeannie to Bewitched.

The main problem is, I dunno what the show would be about, as many of the things that were socially taboo in the 70s are not so much today, BUT it would be interesting to see Janet and Chrissy as senior citizens. I think a good plot device would be seeing Janet and Chrissy in a "Jeez! Kids today!" type role, having a hard time adjusting to the way of life in the 2020s and seeing younger ppl the way Mr. Roper saw THEM 40 years ago

[James28]

Another problem is, if Chrissy had been killed off following Suzanne Somers's departure from Three's Company, there's NO WAY she would've been in any TC reboot at all.

[SitcomsHeydayfan]

Originally Posted by James28

Another problem is, if Chrissy had been killed off following Suzanne Somers's departure from Three's Company, there's NO WAY she would've been in any TC reboot at all.

Chrissy wasn't killed off on Three's Company but she was persona non grata after her GREEDY demands so it's almost the same thing...LOL.

[TMC]

Originally Posted by ThisLittlePiggy

It would never work. I agree - what would the show be about? Her and her adult son?

I honestly don't know how a reboot or continuation of Three's Company could work with or without John Ritter because it was just one of those shows that was of "its time". Like, I don't think for one thing, that the whole idea of a single man platonically living with two single women is considered that "big of a deal" today than it may have been back in 1977. As others have said, what was considered "socially taboo" in the 1970s-early '80s, likely isn't so much today.

Plus, what exactly would be a good jumping off point for a reboot? Since John Ritter is sadly, now deceased, you obviously can't make it about an older version of Jack Tripper. And John was the main linchpin of Three's Company in the first place. I guess, you can work around that by doing what the revival of Night Court did, and focused it on Judge Harry Stone's daughter in light of Harry Anderson's recent passing.

I can imagine John's son Tyler as Jack Tripper's son if you wanted to go that route. I mean, Tyler is the absolute splitting image of his father:

[TMC]

Originally Posted by SitcomsHeydayfan

Chrissy wasn't killed off on Three's Company but she was persona non grata after her GREEDY demands so it's almost the same thing...LOL.

Chrissy got the "Chuck Cunningham" treatment in that while her character technically didn't die, she was none the less, all but evaporated from existence. She would never be acknowledged going forward. You might as well have to pretend that come Season 6, Cindy was the first "blonde roommate" before Jack and Janet met Terri.