Blossomstar Mayim Bialik and creator Don Reo have been trying for years to get a “limited reboot” of the series off the ground, and now Bialik is hoping that saying it out loud will help the revival’s chances of actually coming to fruition. Between 1991 and 1995,Blossomaired for five seasons on NBC with Bialik in the lead role as the titular teenage girl.
On Monday,Blossomwas made available for streaming on Hulu. To help promote the news,Mayim Bialikspoke about the classic series in a new interview withEntertainment Weekly. As it turns out, Bialik and Reo have been working on getting aBlossomrevival launched for a rather long time and they even have a solid idea for a reboot ready to go. As Bialik explains toEW, the issue lies on the business end as they’ve faced a lot of resistance from the network.
“I guess I’m allowed to talk about this now, Don Reo and I do have a limited reboot that we would like to do. We’ve had a lot of trouble getting our network onboard. It’s been really fascinating. At a certain point, I may just start a grassroots fan campaign to see if we can do it because we absolutely would love people to see where these characters are. [Reo] and I talked about it and we kind of decided after literally years of trying to work on this that I would probably just say it out loud. We do have a well-formed idea and we would love someone to let us do it.”
Blossomrevolves around the life of Blossom Russo, a teenage girl whose family is left to adjust when the matriarch abandons them for a life and career elsewhere. Along with Bialik as Blossom, the series stars Joey Lawrence as Blossom’s brotherJoey, Michael Soyanov as brother Tony, Ted Wass as the family patriarch Nicholas, and Jenna von Oy as Blossom’s best friend Six. David Lascher, Portia Dawson, Barnard Hughes, and Finola Hughes also star. The series also featured many celebrity guests including Sonny Bono, Estelle Getty, Dick Clark, David Cassidy, and Alex Trebek.
Who knows if we’ll ever see theBlossomrevival actually happen, but with the original star and creator completely on board, there’s no good reason why it shouldn’t. For now, you can watch classic episodes of the original series onHulu. You can read the rest of Bialik’s interview, which includes a lot of insight into the production of the original show, over atEntertainment Weekly.
