Craig T. Nelson Starring in NBC's 'Coach' Follow-Up Series

[Sawyer]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/craig-t-nelson-star-coach-784791

Random as Hell.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Was anybody really clamoring for this? What's next? A sequel to The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd? A Major Dad reboot? A gritty HBO remake of Wings directed by Nicolas Winding Refn?

 

[Kal-El.9859]

Yeah, tell me about it....and all the other 80s-90's movies turned tv shows are being remade. That's dumb

 

[Sawyer]

An outright remake of Coach would be one thing. A continuation just seems so random and out of nowhere.

I mean, it's not like Friends or Seinfeld, where viewers would inevitably come out in droves. It just doesn't seem relevant enough of a show to think "Hey, lets round the cast up again and put on a show."

 

[terry78]

They couldn't get everybody back for Friends or Seinfeld. When you do a continuation it's usually because the cast ain't really doing anything else.

 

[Sawyer]

They couldn't get everybody back for Friends or Seinfeld. When you do a continuation it's usually because the cast ain't really doing anything else.

Tell that to Curb Your Enthusiasm.

 

[Prison Mike]

I loved the original series but it's a shame that it is unlikely the rest of the cast will be returning (according to the article). I hope that changes. I especially loved Dauber.

 

[zeroapoc]

So when do we get the Just the 10 of Us continuation?

 

[Kal-El.9859]

An outright remake of Coach would be one thing. A continuation just seems so random and out of nowhere.

I mean, it's not like Friends or Seinfeld, where viewers would inevitably come out in droves. It just doesn't seem relevant enough of a show to think "Hey, lets round the cast up again and put on a show."

I loved Coach. I'll be tuning into this

 

[Gort Baringa]

I liked his series The District and was disappointed when it was cancelled.

 

[Lily Adler]

I liked The District, too. I hated it that USA stopped reruns of it.

Was anybody really clamoring for this? What's next? A sequel to The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd? A Major Dad reboot? A gritty HBO remake of Wings directed by Nicolas Winding Refn?

This actually sounds amazing!

 

[Sawyer]

http://deadline.com/2015/08/coach-cancelled-nbc-reboot-dead-1201511247/

‘Coach’ Reboot Not Going Forward At NBC
by Nellie Andreeva

A new Coach sitcom won’t be coming to NBC after all. The network, which in April ordered a follow-up to 1990s comedy with a 13-episode straight-to-series order, today scrapped the project. The show’s cast and producers have started getting the news this evening. The decision comes after weeks of rumblings about creative issues on the project, which has filmed only a pilot episode. Original star Craig T. Nelson toplined the new show, written by the original series creator Barry Kemp.

While Coach had a 13-episode order, NBC opted to film one episode and take time to re-evaluate the project before proceeding with the other 12 episodes. I hear besides Nelson, who is guaranteed 13 episodic fees, all other cast members are being paid for the produced episode only. I hear response to the reboot had been mixed at best, with sources indicating that it felt dated.

The series was set in the present, picking up 18 years after the ABC sitcom went off the air after nine seasons. Coach Fox (Nelson) — now retired from coaching — is called back to become assistant coach to his grown son, Tim (Andrew Ridings), who is the new head coach at an Ivy League school in Pennsylvania that is starting up a new team. Original cast member Bill Fagerbakke was slated to return alongside Nelson, with Malcolm Barrett and Morgan Smith also co-starring. Universal TV was the studio.

It is unclear whether the producers would try to set the project up elsewhere, like Netflix, which has been responsive to updates to popular series, like Full House.

Dated, huh? No kidding. Who would've ever guessed that a show that ended two decades ago, and really hasn't stuck around in our popular culture in the same way as Friends/Seinfeld/Will and Grace/Fresh Prince of Bel-Air have, would've felt dated?