US revives Party of Five
1990s drama is being given a reboot -with a Trump-like twist.
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1990s drama Party of Five is being given a 2018 reboot with a Trump-like twist.
In the original series, which ran from 1994 to 2000, the five children were orphaned when both parents died in a car crash.
In the new version for Freeform the five will struggle to make it on their own after their parents are deported to Mexico.
“Twenty-five years ago, we imagined a story about five kids navigating the world after the untimely death of their parents,” original creators Christopher Keyser and Amy Lippman said in a statement. “Today, stories of families being separated, children having to raise themselves in the wake of their parents’ deportations, don’t require any imagination; they are everywhere. This new iteration of Party of Five isn’t a retread of the original; it’s a whole new look at kids trying to parent each other in the wake of circumstances beyond their control, yet learning a similar lesson: that families persist no matter how great the obstacles.”
The original Party of Five featured Scott Wolf, Matthew Fox & Neve Campbell tackling serious themes such as substance abuse, domestic abuse, cancer and its central theme: the loss of a parent.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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9 Responses
Why even bother without the original cast.. I love Neve 🙂
I loved the original but seriously, enough with reboots!
Surely there are some writers and producers out there who can come up with original ideas.
I post on original TV ideas every day? This is a common argument but it doesn’t stack up.
This could work as long as the kids are ridiculously good looking and rich, as they were in the original.
I’m pretty sure they were poor in the original.
I never watched this originally and the rest of my comment applies generally: What is with all the rumoured reboots in the U.S? Have they really run out of original ideas or are too scared or struggle with funding to create fresh concepts for something new?
The networks are in their death throes. It’s even been predicted that they’ll cease to exist in a mere 5 years.
I don’t mind a reboot but it has to have alteast some of the original cast… just calling it party of 5 wont do much.
Silly idea-deported isn’t dead, especially with modern communications-this could well be one of those ‘pulled after a couple of eps and cancelled’ situations.