Earlier this year came the news that Don Reo, creator of the famed early 1990s sitcom “Blossom,” had completed a script for the pilot of a single-camera reboot of the property.
At the time star Mayim Balik told Variety that “all of the cast is on board” but would take some time to get going as it required a “set of conversations with Disney because there’s a lot of red tape and there’s a lot of complexity.”
The original series ran from 1991 to 1995 on NBC and is now available on Hulu. It followed a teenage girl navigating life while living with her single father (Ted Wass) and two older brothers (Joey Lawrence, Michael Stoyanov).
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, she was able to elaborate on the plans, saying it will potentially go in a more serious direction than some expect:
“I’m happy to tell you that, yes, it’s true…We’re hoping to reboot it not as a sitcom, though. We want to bring back these interesting, deep characters – a child of divorce, a recovering drug addict, an alcoholic – to see them in a whole new way.”
Whilst several sequel series based on old sitcoms have popped up in recent years from “Full House” to “Saved by the Bell,” most have retained the tone and some of the formula of their predecessor.
“Bel-Air” meanwhile took a sitcom premise and put it in a drama, the kind of tonal shift it sounds like this wants to emulate, however that series was a straight reboot whereas this is definitely a sequel series.
It’ll likely be a while before we hear anything further though as Balik says right now the actors are all more committed to the current actor’s strike: “We believe a reboot can and should exist once the strike ends.”
