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.
It was rebooted back in 1987. I’m surprised the reboot lasted 3 seasons.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094518/episodes?ref_=tt_ov_epl
Dang, the original lasted only 2 seasons???
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057773/?ref_=ttep_ep_tt
Bklyn, huh? The original cast in full makeup wandering around Bklyn today would go utterly unnoticed and unremarked...except maybe cousin Marilyn.
Of course lil Paulie Ryan will play Eddie no make up required.
Guaranteed they are going to have some mix of the various protected classes.
Well, we are going back to Korea, so an updated MASH might work.
“Seems like TV and movies have about run their course.”
Apparently not until they re-run their course.
rwood
Demographics. There were a crapload of young teens when those started.
“Does john Kerry need a job?”
Good. Very good.
rwood
Let me guess, Herman will have Trump Hair and Eddie will look like Barron.
LMAO!
Oh sh!t, that was funny!
Lol! Lower Manhattan also. Both have been overrun with so-called "Hipsters" and other assorted liberal freaks.
Want to bet on who’s going to be transformed into a homosexual or transsexual? What with being transported to Brooklyn and all, imagine the hilarity of a cab or subway ride. No Munstermobiles or Dragulas there.
It’s going to be hilarious for all the wrong reasons, and will flop. They just can’t resist the pontificating and PC indoctrination.
The Munsters - Hollywood Backstage on the set
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISWkn7RoblI
The Munsters - 43-min Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX_s449BVeE
Here’s a Reboot idea.
The Munsters are stuck on an Uncharted Desert Isle after their Submarine “Seaview” runs aground.
In the second Episode, Billy Mumy, The Robot and The Professor played by Dr. Smith wash up on Shore after the experimental Jupiter II they were piloting crashes shortly after launch.
Not sure what the story is below. But they're apparently in New York City here...
Goes without saying:
Portia de Rossi as his wife Lily, Eddie Izzard as Grandpa
It’s going to be hilarious for all the wrong reasons, and will flop. They just can’t resist the pontificating and PC indoctrination.
I dunno. Eddie's a very funny guy.
Can they not find anything new and interesting. Why would you re-boot “The Munsters”, I liked it when I was a kid. Now I would probably much rather have a re-boot of “The Addams Family”, if your looking for an idea.
How about a re-boot of “Hazel”, of course it would have to be PC with a trans-gender Hazel.
Is it any wonder network TV is going south.
Mitch McConnell as Grandpa Munster.
None of his potions ever worked.
OK, I'm done name-dropping now.
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