A New ‘Clueless’ TV Reboot Is Coming to NBC’s Streaming Service Peacock
Written by SOURCE on August 14, 2020
Twenty-five years after its original film debut, a Clueless TV series reboot of the 1995 teen classic is being developed by NBCUniversal’s new streaming service, Peacock. As if!
According to Deadline, the project has been in the works since last year via CBS TV Studios, hailing from Will & Grace writers Jordan Reddout and Gus Hickey. The show has finally found a home at Peacock, the streaming service launched back in April.
This new series centers around Dionne’s character, originally played by Stacey Dash in the movie and the 1996 series adaptation. The show will transform its original ’90s essence into the new age 2020s aesthetic. As characterized by Deadline, it’s “a baby pink and bisexual blue-tinted, tiny sunglasses-wearing, oat milk latté and Adderall-fueled look at what happens when the high school queen bee Cher disappears and her lifelong No. 2, Dionne, steps into Cher’s vacant Air Jordans. How does Dionne deal with the pressures of being the new most popular girl in school, while also unraveling the mystery of what happened to her best friend?”
The Clueless reboot joins the streaming service’s slate of new content, including the sci-fi drama series Brave New World, the comedy show A.P. Bio, and new seasons and reboots of Saved by the Bell and Punky Brewster in the coming months. It also joins Peacock’s stacked line up of other shows, including The Office, Parks & Recreation, Cheers, Downton Abbey, Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, King of Queens, Monk, Royal Pains, Saturday Night Live, and more. Peacock also reached an agreement with ViacomCBS to license a handful of shows including Everybody Hates Chris, The Affair, Charmed, and Ray Donovan.
