Posted on 08/15/2018 10:08:05 AM PDT by simpson96
Sony has yet another reboot in the works. The television studio is developing an update of the ’90s sitcom “Designing Women.”
The show’s original creator, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, is attached to lead the reboot, according to TVLine.
“Designing Women” ran for seven seasons on CBS, before concluding on May 24, 1993, sharing a night with “Murphy Brown.” You know, that other classic comedy about to return to the network.
The series centers around the fictional design firm Sugarbaker and Associates, a witty bully pulpit for caustic social and political humor. The founder of the company is Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter), a sharp-tongued but elegant and surprisingly compassionate woman. Her younger sister, Suzanne (Delta Burke), is a former beauty queen who is long on charm but a bit slow on the uptake. Their associates are Mary Jo Shively (Annie Potts), a recent divorcee, and officer manager Charlene Frazier (Jean Smart), whose sweetness is matched only by her naivete. Their deliverman is Anthony Bouvier (Meshach Taylor), a well-spoken ex-convict, and cheerfully dotty senior citizen Bernice Clifton (Alice Ghostley) often drops by for a visit as well.
It is unclear what cast members — if any — would return for the reboot, with Carter having passed on in 2010 and and Taylor in 2014.
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Ditto on that.
Recycling is really ‘very in’ in Hollywood! True creativity? Not so much!
Never watched it, am in no danger of watching this one.
Same with Murphy Brown’s Dan Quayle love-fest.
Liberals want to go back, back to when there was no Trump to talk mean to them.
Remake Hogan’s Heroes ... Klink is a flaming homosexual, Schultz has bulemia, Hochstetter is into BDSM, Burchhalter is a transvestite, Kinchloe kneels during the German national anthem, Le Beau is a metrosexual, Hogan is arrested for sexual harassment, Newkirk is anti-American and Carter has ADHD.
"Brilliant" "Brave" "Bold" "Empowering"
My wife liked that show. Not me. There was never any dialogue, the cast just took turns delivering feminist polemics. Who speaks like that???
Sure to be unwatchable.
You left out Hilda. Hope she stays the same.
Ah, yes. Bob Crane’s wife.
I suppose she knew all about him and his lifestyle.
Never watched it. Bloodworth-Thomas involved? Evil incarnate. Lower than whale dung, she is.
What the Clintons did with the White House Travel Office employees, making up crimes, and firing them all so they could give the Travel Office jobs to the Bloodworth-Thomases and their friends is shameful, despicable, and destroyed the careers of good people. On top of that, they destroyed a well-functioning component of the White House and turned it into a dysfunctional, useless bureaucratic morass.
The Bloodworth-Thomases are the absolute scum of the earth, but typical leftists. Everything they touch turns to crap.
Scum. Scum. Scum. I despise and detest them.
Update WKRP so it is one of a rack of station computers plugged into the antenna transmitting the same bland, remotely created playlist all the ither robostations are tranmitting. Once a week the station manager drops by to make sure everything is still plugged in.
Well, Dixie Carter was a Republican from Tennessee. Good luck in finding someone like that nowadays in Hollyweird. Even though some here might call her out for being something of a liberal, I enjoyed a good deal of her work, as she also did “Filthy Rich” in the early ‘80s and also guested on shows like “Quincy” and “Bret Maverick”. Yes, I know she was also on “The Edge of Night” back in the 1970s.
They should do it with all-male Chilean cast.
If you are so inclined, you can purchase DVD’s of the original series as 6 sets for each season. However, I do not think those who subscribe here would be so inclined. I can think of more productive ways to spend the $132.35 to buy the whole collection and the 2 days, 21 hours to watch it
Someone else remembers Filthy Rich.
They actually did an episode kind of like that for the original run. It was WKRP’s version of “A Christmas Carol” in which Big Guy (Gordon Jump, RIP) is shown visions of the past (when he had Herb Tarlek’s job back in the late 1950s and Les Nessman was a young reporter for WKRP’s news department) and then of the future (in which Herb is the only one working there and operating the computers that control the station).
Arthur was convinced to stand up to his mother and have the Christmas bonuses paid out to staff as promised, even though she tried to weasel her way out of paying them.
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