Designing Women has moved a step closer to escaping its 25-year stay in cancellation hell.
Per THR, ABC is rebooting the sitcom as a sequel series:
ABC has handed out a script commitment to what is being billed as a “sequel” to the CBS comedy from original series creator Linda Bloodworth Thomason and executive producer Harry Thomason.
The new Designing Women — which is a multicamera comedy like its predecessor — will follow the next generation of Sugarbakers with a crop of new, young, female designers at an Atlanta interior design firm. The new take will still have the same razor-sharp dialogue and ability to cut through the political, cultural and social factions that rarely agree on anything. Bloodworth Thomason will pen the script and exec produce alongside her husband, Thomason.
The project, which has been in the works for months with the ABC deal being worked out over the past few weeks, comes from the same studio that produced the original in Sony Pictures Television. Sources say original castmembers will occasionally stop by should the new take move to series.
The original Designing Women survived seven seasons on CBS from 1986 to 1993.
Do you want a Designing Women reboot? Did the show already have its time? Stay tuned to see whether Designing Women can escape the reaper’s clutches…
Can’t wait to see! Loved the older one! It’s the perfect ???? time for it, year of the ♀ WOMEN. ????????????????????????
The original was awesome…..Hoping the reboot will do it justice……Looking forward to watching it.
Good show but if I had my druthers, I’d rather see the original cast in the reboot. Kind of like the golden girls go back to work kind of thing and they could have young people interning at the design studio to give the original cast something else to work with. I doubt I’d watch it with a new cast even if some of the veterans came on once in a while.JMHO
It will never make it. Stop while you are ahead.
if they butcher this and politicize it like they did roaseanne it wont be worth watching. Im still boycotting abc after what they did to roseanne