{"id":110420,"date":"2025-08-26T04:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T04:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/110420\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T04:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T04:16:07","slug":"blossom-reboot-plans-scrapped-by-disney-mayim-bialik-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/110420\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Blossom’ Reboot Plans Scrapped By Disney, Mayim Bialik Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMayim Bialik<\/a> revealed that the long-gestating Disney<\/a> reboot of \u201990s sitcom Blossom<\/a> is no longer moving forward.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a blog posted to her Substack<\/a> today, The Big Bang Theory alumna noted the decision was \u201cnot for lack of trying\u201d and the result of industry-wide mergers and new executives who didn\u2019t see the merit in pursuing the project.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe former Jeopardy! host recounted how the idea of a revival came about, following the conclusion of the Jim Parsons-led sitcom in 2019. After reconnecting with original show creator Don Reo<\/a>, the two wondered: \u201cWhat would Blossom be like 30 years later? Don wrote a draft in one sitting. He said it just flowed out of him. It wasn\u2019t writing so much as it was receiving. He found our characters exactly where many of us find ourselves \u2013 funny, lost, wandering, meandering, and torn. The script is beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGiven Bialik\u2019s busy schedule with hosting the game show and her role on Fox\u2019s Call Me Kat, the project had to take a back seat. Afterward, the two re-pitched the show to new execs at Disney, the rights-holder on the OG show, who \u201cseemed to love it, understood what we wanted to do, and Don and I felt comfortable to speak about it in the press. We felt certain this was moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThough Bialik and Reo had essentially sold the reboot a year earlier, upon their second attempt, they were told the project was \u201cno longer able to be produced,\u201d per TVLine<\/a>. While the two pivoted to asking for the series rights, Disney declined, in case the company wanted to pursue its own reboot down the line.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reboot we all wanted to do was now, with Don\u2019s script. We will likely never know \u2026 why they would not let us bring these beautiful stories to people who love 90s nostalgia and who have a special place in their hearts for Blossom,\u201d Bialik said.<\/p>\n

While the actress said she remains hopeful, \u201cthis project is the role I want to play more than any other. Since this all fell apart, my desire to continue to pursue on-camera roles has waned. The constant changing of guards in our industry, the mergers, the insincerity and the increasingly extended periods of time it takes to get answers or contracts completed\u2026 It\u2019s not the industry Don and I grew up in, and\u00a0Blossom\u00a0felt like my last attempt to try and assert myself as an actress.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tConcluding, she added, \u201cWhile it is possible no one wants a\u00a0Blossom\u00a0reboot, I\u2019m pretty certain Disney got this one wrong. The sun is gonna surely shine. Maybe not the way Don and I intended, but this door closed. While we didn\u2019t want it to, we are powerless over every aspect of it except what we know to be true: we loved this possibility with all that we have and we are so so sorry we couldn\u2019t get it to happen.<\/p>\n

\n\tPer Deadline sources, Disney\u2019s ABC Signature (now 20th Television) explored a Blossom reboot from Reo and Bialik last fall but the project never come to fruition. The latter last spoke about its potential in 2023<\/a>, saying, \u201cAll of the cast and the original creator and producers are on board, and we believe a reboot can and should exist once the strike ends.\u201d At the time, she said the limited offshoot would be designed as a deeper story outside its sitcom genre origins.<\/p>\n

\n\tAiring for five seasons on NBC beginning in 1991 and ending in 1995, the series followed the title character living in a male-dominated household led by her single father and two older brothers. While the show was never a critical nor awards darling, it did break ground in centering on a young girl in a TV landscape dominated by shows about boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayim Bialik revealed that the long-gestating Disney reboot of \u201990s sitcom Blossom is no longer moving forward. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[72393,3716,72394,88,14639,92],"class_list":["post-110420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-blossom","tag-disney","tag-don-reo","tag-entertainment","tag-mayim-bialik","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}