Chunky girl will be played by:
mean, that's gotta be a lock.... am I right?
Posted on 08/03/2018 2:57:32 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Sony Pictures Television, which owns distribution rights to the sitcom, is in early talks to reboot the Diff'rent Strokes spinoff that originally aired on NBC for nine seasons and more than 200 episodes. A network is not yet attached and a search for a writer is underway.
Sources say Leonardo DiCaprio and Jessica Biel are in early talks to exec the reboot via their respective Appian Way and Ocean Films production companies. Sony TV declined comment.
The series, which starred Charlotte Rae, Lisa Whelchel, Kim Fields, Mandy Cohn and Nancy McKeon, is one of the longest-running comedies of the '80s and revolved around a housemother and her students at the all-female Eastland School in New York. The multicamera comedy was created by Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon.
The Facts of Life re-do arrives as reboots continue to be in high demand as broadcast, cable and streaming services alike look for proven brands in a bid to cut through a cluttered landscape expected to top 520 in 2018 alone. Key to the reboots and revivals is having the original producers involved, which Facts of Life has with Sony TV. Reboots are not just easier — and inexpensive — to market given their built-in brand awareness but in many cases, they also help the studio further monetize library content. (Will and Grace producers Universal TV, for example, were able to sell the comedy's entire library as part of its reboot deal with Hulu.)
The Facts of Life arrives days after news broke that Warner Bros. TV is looking to revive ALF, though a network is not yet attached. Both ALF and Facts of Life are multicamera comedies and arrive at the genre is seeing a resurgence following the breakout success of ABC's Roseanne. Broadcasters have increased the number of multicams this season as the format is faster and cheaper to produce.
Him stuffed into a Prius instead of a Lincoln Continental would be funny.
Good for her.
To me, she was about the only likeable one.
Reboots are all they have in an effort to retain aging audiences that grew up with the originals.
Young people are watching YouTube. They don't watch any network TV and little if any cable programming. The old dinosaurs are going extinct.
They just said they were doing an Alf reboot too!
What the ever loving frock is wrong with these talentless fools?!
Do a FoL REUNION! They are all still living! Otherwise move on!
Nancy McKean is a big time lib, not sure about the other cast..what next, Small Wonder, Punky Brewster..heck bring back Leave It To Beaver..Wally, the Beav, and Eddie are still alive
They did a reboot of Leave it to Beaver years ago, it was pretty good. I think that was back in the 1980’s on a cable channel.
Never liked Nancy, now I know why.
Barnaby Jones should come back too.
Didn’t they already “reboot” this as “Gossip Girl”?
That was more of a continuation with the original cast.
They tried Get Smart, but it flopped I think.
The original is still the best.
Same goes for Rockford, Kojak,Ironside, and the like.
Been watching the old episodes of leave it to beaver, the episodes would NEVER be allowed to be on TV today, the one episode where Beaver went to an all girls birthday party, got bored, and the girls father let him play with his gun collection, you’d never see that today
Chunky girl will be played by:
mean, that's gotta be a lock.... am I right?
Didn’t Frank Sinatra’s daughter have a song about reboots?
Thanks for posting that, now I sort of vaguely remember the show.
Won’t be watching the reboot, that is certain.
"Now this is a very special gun Beaver. It's an .88 caliber, shoots through schools."
No doubt you’re right.
Heck, old people are watching YouTube. If people here aren’t watching some Hickock45, Jordan Peterson, Stefan Molyneaux, Dan Bongino, etc., they are missing out.
The only facts of the Facts Life girls lives these days is menopause.
LOL! I’m still flabbergasted by the existence of this person.
Aerobics....it’s her thang.
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