Whoa, Disney scraps Blossom reboot
In a blog post, Mayim Bialik says that a reboot of the series surrounding the funky hat-wearing teen is dead, but "not for lack of trying."
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A few years ago, Mayim Bialik started talking seriously about rebooting Blossom, her breakthrough sitcom in which she starred as a plucky teen girl with a funky hat collection and a womanizing older brother with a penchant for saying “Whoa.” The original NBC show never had the prime TGIF real estate, but it ran for five seasons in the ’90s. Despite never really working in syndication, Blossom became a quasi-cultural touchstone—primarily for hats, “whoas,” and Bialik’s continued television presence. But the show was pretty groundbreaking for its time, often dealing with mature problems like sexual assault, gun violence, and drugs, so maybe it was a little too adult for TGIF anyway. To that end, Bialik hoped to reboot the show “not as a sitcom” but rather as a means of bringing back “these interesting, deep characters—a child of divorce, a recovering drug addict, an alcoholic—to see them in a whole new way.” Alas, she won’t have the chance.
