Hayden Fox will coach another day.
By Brandon Wolfe
Dusting off The X-Files, 24 and Twin Peaks was one thing, but here’s something no one saw coming. A deal has been struck to revive Coach, the Craig T. Nelson sitcom that ran on ABC from 1989-1997, for a 13-episode event series on NBC. Nelson will reprise his role as Hayden Fox and series creator Barry Kemp will write the new installments.
The new Coach will be a real-time sequel to the original series, picking up 18 years after the series finale to focus on the now-retired Coach Fox stepping forward to assist his adult son, who is the head coach at an Ivy League school in Pennsylvania. The new series will retain the multi-camera style employed by the original.
It has yet to be determined how many of Nelson’s original co-stars, including Jerry Van Dyke, Shelley Fabares, Bill Fagerbakke, Clare Carey and Kenneth Kimmins, will join him, but presumably at least a few will.
Man, Coach is coming back. That’s so weird. Can we revive Perfect Strangers next?
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