Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr., and Hulu want to bring The Cable Guy to streaming

For the pilot, Deadline reports the names will be the same, with Johnson playing Chip Douglas and Wayans playing Steven Stephens. (For the record, Broderick’s character’s last name was Kovacs in the film.) Personally, we would’ve swapped those roles. The pilot sees Steven calling Chip, a lonely cable repairman, languishing in the streaming era, to fix his TV. They hit it off and begin hanging out, until Chip takes the Bewitched jokes too far. Yup, sounds like The Cable Guy.

Johnson and Wayans obviously have great chemistry and deserve a comedy of their own. However, The Cable Guy on streaming has the stink of Netflix’s Blockbuster TV show. Sure, streaming companies have bulldozed the old world and replaced it with quickly produced and forgotten shows, casting the widest net possible to dominate all of television, but do they have to rub it in? Or, maybe we’re being crybabies. We have always been such crybabies.