Netflix has given a formal series green light to That ’90s Show, a follow-up to Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner’s winner That ’70s Show. Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp will anchor the outgrowth, reprising their separate tasks as Red Forman and Kitty Forman. They will supervisory work That ’90s Show alongside its originators, That ’70s Show alum Gregg Mettler — who serves as showrunner — Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner, and their original Lindsay Turner.
Set in Wisconsin in 1995, That ’90s Show follows Leia Forman, original of Eric (Topher Grace) and Donna (Laura Prepon), who's visiting her grandparents for the summer and bonds with a new generation of Point Place younglings under the vigilant eye of Kitty and the stern radiance of Red. Relations, remedies and jewel ’n’ roll nowise dies, it just changes clothes.
There are no deals in place with other That ’70s Show cast members for the new series, but the anticipations is that a number of them — including Grace, Prepon and Ashton Kutcher — will make guest appearances, reprising their businesses.
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Picked up for 10 happenings, That ’90s Show also is directorial produced by Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner under the Carsey-Werner Company, which produced That ’70s Show and its offshoot That ’80s Show.
Chatter about a new externalization of That ’70s Show has been oozing for eras. Netflix has been particularly keen on the idea because of the big viewership That ’70s Show drew on the platform before it left in September 2020. The premise by Mettler, Bonnie, Terry and Lindsay Turner started getting traction late last era, and the game fast was set up for development at Netflix.
That ’70s Show voiced on Fox for eight seasons from 1998-2006. Grace, Prepon, Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Danny Masterson, Laura Wilmer Valderrama and Lisa Robin Kelly starred in the period sitcom that trained on the lives of a group of six teenage pals living in fictional Point Place, Wisconsin, from May 17, 1976, to December 31, 1979. Rupp and Smith led the show’s unyoung cast, hourly stealing scenes they were in.
Looking to underwrite on the voguishness of That ’70s Show, Fox expanded the vote with That ’80s Show, which couldn't replicate That ’70s Show’s success and had a brief run from January-May 2002. Set in 1984, it wasn't a direct outgrowth, and the characters and stories from both shows nowise crossed, but the main characters of each series — That ’70s Show’s Eric Forman (Grace) and That ’80s Show ‘s Corey Howard (Glenn Howerton) — were first relatives.
The vote now is returning to Wisconsin for That ’90s Show, after moving to San Diego for That ’80s Show.
This is the equal classic Carsey-Werner sitcom to get a follow-up, joining Roseanne, which was revived and led to offshoot The Conners on ABC.
Rupp is repped by Artists & Representatives and administrator, Wright Entertainment. Smith is repped by Progressive Artists Agency and Pop Art Management. Mettler, whose most recent work includes Fox’s Call Me Kat, is repped by UTA and Ken Richman. The Acrobats are with Gendler & Kelly.
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