Craig T. Nelson to Star in 'Coach' Follow-Up Series for NBC
The network has handed out a 13-episode straight-to-series commitment for the series from creator Barry Kemp.
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TV's Yr of Revivals continues.
NBC has handed out a 13-episode direct-to-series social club for a Coach follow-up comedy, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Craig T. Nelson, fresh off his vi-flavor run on NBC'due south Parenthood, will reprise his role as double-decker Hayden Trick in the one-act. Barry Kemp — who created the original series that ran on ABC for nine seasons — will return to write the NBC follow-upward and exec produce the Universal Television multicamera series with Nelson.
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NBC'due south sequel picks up 18 years subsequently Coach went off the air in 1997 following a nearly 200-episode run. Nelson'due south beleaguered football coach is at present retired and is called back to become the assistant jitney to his ain grown son, who is now the new head coach at an Ivy League school in Pennsylvania that is only starting up a new team.
A premiere date for Coach two.0 has not notwithstanding been determined and no additional casting information has been revealed. The original series, produced past Universal Television, featured Jerry Van Dyke as Fox'southward bumbling banana Luther and Beak Fagerbakke as fellow banana coach Dauber; Shelley Fabares played Nelson's wife, Christine.
The series concluded with Hayden and Christine adopting a child after being unable to conceive.
Sources tell THR that NBC, who had the first meeting for the follow-upward given its sibling studio Universal is producing, bought the pitch in the room with the straight-to-series society, prompting producers to cancel meetings prepare with CBS, ABC and Fox.
While the new series will put the focus on Hayden and his son, sources signal it's unlikely that any other original castmembers volition render, with the part of the wife all the same unclear given that at that place is non yet a script after NBC bought the comedy based on its pitch.
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The Coach revival has been in the works for months, with Nelson approached to revive the project toward the end of Parenthood's run when he was debating signing on: "We're talking nigh it. I'm really at a quandary. But I've been approached and we're thinking nigh it and talked through it a footling bit," he told THR. "I don't know. It would exist a new course; it'south his son. He adopted a son and his son at present has become a jitney."
For NBC, Charabanc comes every bit the network has been looking to revive its multicamera block this season. The network about recently pulled unmarried-camera comedies About a Boy and Marry Me in favor of multicams Ane Large Happy and the second season of Undateable. Of NBC's xiii comedy pilots this season, six are multicam — upwards two twelvemonth-over-year. Coach also marks NBC's second directly-to-series order of the season, joining unmarried-photographic camera one-act Telenovela, starring Eva Longoria, which also landed a 13-episode society for a fall premiere. Non to exist outdone, the network besides gave an early 6-episode series pickup to multicam The Carmichael Prove starring Jerrod Carmichael.
Reboots and revivals have become all the rage this evolution and pilot season every bit the circulate networks await for proven formats in a bid to break through the clutter. ABC has Uncle Buck; CBS has Limitless and Rush Hour; Flim-flam has Minority Study; and NBC has Problem Child. Primal to the success of such revivals is having the original creators and producers involved, which Double-decker has with Universal, Nelson and Kemp.
During its run, Autobus was a mainstay at the Emmys, with multiple nominations for its regular and guest cast and wins in 1992 for Nelson and in 1996 for guest star Tim Conway.
Nelson is repped by Prototype, Tom Hoberman and Forrard Entertainment. Kemp is repped by ICM Partners, who packaged NBC's Motorcoach, and Bill Jacobson.
The Motorbus revival also keeps Nelson in the NBC and Universal fold after starring as Zeek Braverman for all six seasons of the network's recently departed Jason Katims drama Parenthood.
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