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.
This is just frigging shameless.
The Munsters was a product of the classic movie monster revival of the 60s. IOW it was a show that hit a fad at the right time along with the Addams Family.
But hey, just crap on the legacy of another TV classic because you have no ideas left.
Joe Scarborough as Herman.
Exactly. It’s hard to be creative when the industry demands that everyone conform to the same views.
The Addams Family movie in the early 90s was actually really good. Thankfully it was at a time when people put some heart and respect into a remake.
LOL. I could see Brad Garrett playing that role.
Late FReeper Firehat—aka Norm Liebmann—created the Munsters. Seth Meyers is no Firehat. Asshat, maybe. Definitely.
All the real creative talent is now working on projects for Netflix and the other up-and-coming streamers. Traditional TV networks are getting the dregs of the talent pool. This is just another proof point. Re-run TV has become re-boot TV. They’re just flat out of ideas.
No that was was real good hanks was great
Jerry O’Connell as family patriarch Herman Munster
I heard John Fn Kerry was playing Herman
“Welcome PAGANS. Don’t forget your goat lettings!”
Oh my, this will save tv. /not
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That doesn’t look like Paul Ryan to me!
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That Dragula car was on display once at a theater near me.
Very cool!!
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