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 OConnell 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 wont say we wont 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 also say the two shows went head to head against each other and Bewitched, but they were on at different times and not all on the same day, either.
Bewitched did start in the same year as the other two. It makes you kind of wonder what Hollywood was drinking or smoking or ingesting back in 1964.
Gee, about a reboot of “I Dream of Jeannie”?
We can show belly buttons now and stuff......
They "resurrected" the deceased Peter Cushing to star in Rogue One; I can see them doing this for all of these old shows when the tech becomes affordable but before the 'reboot' fad plays out.
Eddie will be homosexual. The daughter a trans. They’ll screw it up for sure.
Al Lewis always told people he was born in 1910, but actually he was born in 1923. Maybe he lied to get the grandfather part and couldn't admit it later.
Lily! Their ugly daughter Marilyn was pretty hot too.
No one else.
Yes. That would be a good choice
She was "drop-dead gorgeous" as a young woman...
Oh goodie, more recycled ideas out of Hollywood. “Creative types” getting paid to...reboot old movies and TeeVee series. What a racket! Nice work if you can get it. I’ll bet they’re laughing all the way to the bank.
On rare occasions they are but the vast majority are bad.
As Moses' wife Sephora.
-PJ
I think John Kerry might be available. And Paul Ryan as Eddie
Actually neither the Munsters or Addams Family were that successful. They each only lasted 2 seasons.
This is also not the 1st reboot, There was the Munsters Today series in the 80’s
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094518/?ref_=nv_sr_2
What will the new Munsters look like, The Cleavers?
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