NBC eyes 'Coach' reboot with 'Modern Family' star Ty Burrell
Second attempt at popular sitcom's revival after 2015 effort halted with one episode recorded
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Popular 1990s TV sitcom Coach could be making a comeback.
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Deadline reported Wednesday that NBC wants to reboot the show created by Barry Kemp that starred Craig T. Nelson following its successful nine-season run on ABC.
The original show, which ran from 1989 to 1997, saw Nelson portray Hayden Fox, the head coach of the fictional college football team Minnesota State University Screaming Eagles, who later coached the fake NFL expansion club Orlando Breakers.
Ty Burrell, who played goofy real estate agent and self-described “cool dad” Phil Dunphy on ABC sitcom Modern Family, is set to executive produce the reboot with the intention of starring as the title character if the series officially goes forward.
Would feature basketball program rebuild
According to the report, the legendary coach returns home to Minnesota to rebuild the basketball program at his alma mater as well as reconnect with the community.
The potential reboot will see brothers Daniel and Matthew Libman write the episodes and executive produce the show with Burrell and John Davis and John Fox of Davis Entertainment.
The revamped Coach could mark the first on-screen role for Burrell since the end of Modern Family, which ran from 2009 to 2020.
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A 13-episode reboot of Coach was planned for 2015, with Nelson reprising his role and Bill Fagerbakke, who played the dim-witted assistant football coach Michael “Dauber” Dybinski in the original run.
The premise of the last revival was Fox had came out of retirement to become an assistant coach to his son Tim — played by Andrew Ridings — at an Ivy League school in Pennsylvania. One episode was filmed before NBC decided not to move forward with the project.
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