Posted on 08/10/2017 1:58:51 PM PDT by EdnaMode
EXCLUSIVE: The Munsters are back! NBC is rebooting the 1960s comedy series about a family of lovable monsters with Odd Mom Out creator Jill Kargman and Seth Meyers.
Inspired by the original series, the half-hour single-camera The Munsters, now in development, follows members of an offbeat family who are determined to stay true to themselves but struggle to fit in in hipster Brooklyn. (In the original, the Munsters resided at the famous 1313 Mockingbird Lane address in the city of Mockingbird Heights, a fictional suburb in California.)
Kargman will write the script and will executive produce with Sethmaker Shoemeyers Productions’ Meyers and Mike Shoemaker. Universal TV is the studio.
I hear the project originated with Kargman, who came up with a new take on the classic sitcom, which ran on CBS for two seasons from 1964-66. Her team tracked down the rights to Universal TV, where she teamed up with Late Night host Meyers, who has a producing deal at the studio.
NBC and Universal previously took a stab at rebooting The Munsters several years ago as an hourlong series written by Bryan Fuller. It resulted in the big-budget pilot Mockingbird Lane, directed by Bryan Singer and starring Jerry O’Connell as family patriarch Herman Munster, Portia de Rossi as his wife Lily, Eddie Izzard as Grandpa and Charity Wakefield as cousin Marilyn, which aired as a Halloween special in 2012.
While NBC ultimately passed on the project going to series, the network did not close the door to bringing the family of monsters back.
“I won’t say we won’t do another version of The Munsters again,” NBC chief Bob Greenblatt said in January 2013. “We tried to make it an hour, which ultimately has more dramatic weight than a half-hour.”
The Munsters now is reverting to its original half-hour comedy format albeit as a single-camera vs. the multi-camera original.
Kargman is the creator, executive producer and star of the critically praised Bravo comedy series Odd Mom Out. Kargman, who also is a bestselling author, is repped by ICM Partners.
Meyers and Shoemaker also executive produce the upcoming NBC comedy series A.P.Bio.
The Munsters marks the second reboot of an old series for NBC next season. Last week the network announced a new version of the 1980s “MTV cops” drama Miami Vice, to be produced by Vin Diesel and Chris Morgan.
They do these and they are never as good as the original..
Seems like TV and movies have about run their course.
Mr. Ed?....My one girlfriend used to say “AWWWWW, Wilbur.” All the time.
Well when you demand ideological purity you lose creativity. You need only to see Commie or Nazi or any other “art” from a totalitarian command environment. Liberals are creating the same thing.
Lily or Morticia?
I’m rather partial to ‘My Mother, the Car” - maybe this time starring a Yugo.
Are they going to push homosexuality and global warming in the Munsters reboot????
Seems like so.much of TV nowadays pushes liberalism.
Does john Kerry need a job?
That show’s dead on arrival (pun not intended). They’re just completely out of ideas. Most of the new shows these days tank quite quickly.
Sooner or later, 77 Sunset Strip will be appreciated for its powerful philosophical insights and poignant depiction of the human condition.
He will be Lurch in the Adams Family remake.
They're completely out of ideas that don't run afoul of political correctness.
You lose creativity? Is that the creativity of copying someone else’s concept?
God forbid we expect them to come up with their own ideas.
Morticia, without a doubt.
She looked and dressed the way Angelica Houston used to look before age and stress over Jack Nicholson took their toll.
They haven’t had an original idea since 1984.
And I think that one was Misfits of Science.
How about a remake of ‘The Addams Family’ with John Kerry reprising his role as Lurch.
Eddie Munster
,p. Besides, Eddie likely has a few miles on him by now.
Definitely Gilligan's Island.
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