Keegan Michael Key and Johnny Knoxville starring in meta sitcom Reboot for Hulu

It sounds like BoJack Horseman meets Fuller House, and it comes from some established sitcom creators

By Sam Barsanti  |  August 8, 2021 | 6:30pm
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Keegan Michael Key and Johnny Knoxville starring in meta sitcom Reboot for Hulu
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Keegan-Michael Key (Arnold Turner/Getty Images for Netflix), Johnny Knoxville (Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Image: The A.V. Club

Reboots and revivals of classic TV shows are still a big trend for streaming platforms, since it’s easier to just make a bunch of new, self-referential episodes of a series that everyone already likes than it is to make a wholly new series, and now Hulu is getting ready to put a meta spin on all of that with a new series called Reboot—not to be confused with the computer-animated show from the ‘90s about the inner lives of computer programs that got surprisingly dark and compelling, which was called ReBoot. This show is just a pilot at this point, but Variety says it will star Johnny Knoxville and Keegan-Michael Key as members of the “dysfunctional cast” of an early 2000s sitcom who must come back together and “deal with their unresolved issues in today’s fast-changing world” when Hulu (meta!) decides to pick up a reboot of the show they used to work on.

So it’s BoJack Horseman meets Fuller House, but everyone’s a human (we assume) and nobody’s DJ Tanner (we assume). Plus, save for a difference in capitalization, it has the same name as a TV show that already exists. That makes it seem potentially unoriginal, but that could also be working in its favor, since the whole idea is that it’s a self-aware satire of this kind of TV sitcom reboot.

Reboot, which, again, is still just a pilot, is coming from creators Steve Levitan and John Enbom, who both have a long career of making successful (or at least acclaimed) TV shows. Levitan co-created Modern Family, as well as Just Shoot Me!, and he worked on Wings, Frasier, and The Larry Sanders Show. Enbom, meanwhile, co-created Party Down and worked on iZombie, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Veronica Mars. Some of those were big hits! And some of them were at least well-reviewed!

 
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