NBC is rebooting The Munsters for a new season.
Per Deadline, the network is reviving the 1960s comedy series about a family of lovable monsters:
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.
The Munsters originally survived two seasons on CBS from 1964 to 1966.
Are you looking forward to The Munsters reboot? Are NBC making a mistake rebooting the series?
Barry Etheridge says
Perfect choice for a revival.
Stacy Wood says
I loved it then. Hopefully the reboot will be as good.
John Norwood says
Munster have ALREADY been rebooted TWICE since the original 1960 Gwynn DeCarlo series.
First one was a partial continuation in the late 1980s with John Shuck as Herman.
The characters are put into suspended animation by Grandpa machine and many of the 1960s stories were removed such as Herman’s twin british brother Charlie.
The SECOND reboot was the awful 1313 Mockingbird Lane movie on NBC which a backboard pilot. That failed horribly as the kind willing to integrate foreign family became a clan of murderous psychopaths who LOOKED normal but in reality KILLED people to keep their secrets that they were not really human. Jerry O’Connell played Herman who was created by Grandpa in this version. Needless to say we did not support a version where little Eddie goes around killing people as a werewollf….
Hope this version goes back to the original idea of transplanted family trying to adapt to American way of life
Erik says
There were also 2 Movies by FOX in the 80’s with Edward Hermann as Herman and they were actually rather good
zombiehorror says
Edward Hermann was only in the first Fox movie, Here Come the Munsters; Sam McMurray played Hermann in Munsters Scary Little Christmas; both were also from the 90’s.