‘Married … With Children’ Reboot Being Shopped With Major Change — And It Isn’t The Cast

Married…With Children may become the latest TV series to get a nostalgic reboot after decades off-air, though it will not look like what you are used to.

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What does those carefully chose words mean? Well, exactly what it sounds like.

Yes, the original cast is all set for a return. All of them: Ed O’Neil, Katey Sagal, Christina Applegate and David Faustino… however the show is not being conceived as live-action, instead it could return in animated form.

At least according to Deadline.

Seconding that report, according to TVline, Fox, Hulu or Peacock are high on the list of destinations, and it is believed that Family Guy executive producer Alex Carter will be brought on to serve as its executive producer/showrunner.

“The new take on the 1987 Fox sitcom is written by Family Guy executive producer Alex Carter, who serves as showrunner,” Deadline reported. “Sony Pictures Television, which owns and distributes the original series, has been working on the animated project for over a year and closed deals with the quartet of Married… with Children stars before taking it out.”

There has been long running rumors that the show would be brought back. It has accelerated with the revival in careers of O’Neill with Modern Family, Sagal in Sons of Anarchy, and Christina Applegate spending many subsequent years in the public conscious.

Fox originally carried series — and it was one of the longest-running series on network television, lasting 11 seasons — before it was unceremoniously canceling it in 1997. The show also, controversially, ended without a proper final that left fans up in arms at the time.

The group has originally been shopping a show with Faustino’s Bud Bundy moving back into the family home with his ex-wife and best friend. O’Neil and Sagal would have reprised their roles as Peg and Al Bundy, but only after striking it rich and moving to Las Vegas.

That reprisal sounds worse than the animated idea.

If the show does make the decision to go animated it would keep the family locked into whatever age the show wants — like South Park or The Simpsons — it also can feature a wide array of guest stars like on Family Guy or Bob’s Burgers.

Maybe it will work?

What do you think?

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  1. Like all T.V. Sitcoms of the 70’s , 80’s and 90’s, what made them funny will no doubt “offend” many snowflakes today. So, if they do bring it back, it will almost surely not be funny!
    I’ll stick to the re-runs on PLUTO!

  2. I’m a really big fan of the show, not really liking the animated idea at all whatsoever!! I’m actually rewatching the show on Hulu right now, very disappointed if they do an animated version!

  3. I predict it will be a complete flop, Anyone who watched the original series will be very disappointed Mark My Words.

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