CBS looking at ‘Honeymooners’ reboot
It’s one of the most iconic television shows of all time.
Click here for reuse options!The multicamera comedy hails from Bob Kushell, who will pen the script and executive produce the CBS Television Studios comedy. The new take centers on two couples — best friends and neighbors like the original — who contend with a new dynamic when one couple remarries after divorcing four years earlier.
Kushell, the well-liked showrunner who most recently developed ABC’s Muppets reboot, will executive produce alongside Carl Beverly, Sarah Timberman, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum as well as Jeff Greenstein (Mom, Will & Grace, Desperate Housewives, Friends)…
The Honeymooners debuted as a half-hour series in 1955, becoming the No. 2 show in the country during its freshman run. The series wrapped after only 39 episodes in 1956. Creator, producer and star [Jackie] Gleason revived the series sporadically until 1978. The classic sitcom ranks as one of the first U.S. TV series to portray working-class married couples in a gritty setting — with episodes largely taking place in the families’ rundown Brooklyn apartment building. (Repeats of The Honeymooners currently air on MeTV.)
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William December 15th, 2016 at 12:37
Interestingly, the set of the Honeymooners was to the best of Jackie Gleason’s recollection, a recreation of the Coldwater flat that he grew up in. His mother worked making change for the NY subway system, and he never really knew his dad. http://bedfordandbowery.com/2015/10/how-sweet-it-is-jackie-gleasons-early-life-in-brooklyn/
bpollen December 16th, 2016 at 02:43
I get a little sick of remakes, reboots, re-imaginings… “There are 8 million stories in the Naked CIty” (from a crime show of the same name) but we spend LOTS of time retelling the same ones.