I can't seem to find any link to that disastrous relaunch of The Munsters that NBC attempted about ten years ago. I remember a lot of people being pumped up about, and it premiered on Halloween, which happened to be a Friday night. There was some plot about Herman needing/taking the heart of s houseguest (Eddie's teacher?). The show totally sucked and was not the lighthearted comedy that our beloved show The Munster's was. Anyone recall the name of the show?
shareMockingbird Lane, and it aired less than four years ago, not ten.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2130271/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_28
Thanks. It seemed a lot longer ago. Did they actually think that it would be a series, or was it a "one and done"? It could only get better following that disaster.
shareIt was intended as a pilot episode for a new series.
There was a good bit of publicity building up for almost a year about the intended reboot, especially given Bryan Fuller's track record with weird and sometimes macabre subjects (Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls). But about a month before the pilot aired, there were rumors circulating that NBC had already decided to pull the plug on it before it even began. Fuller went to Twitter to shoot down the rumors, but the pre-Halloween Friday night scheduling of the episode had a let's-bury-it-and-cut-our-losses feel to it. Two months after it aired, NBC officially announced that they would not be picking it up as a series. They did mention, however, that they were still considering a reboot of the TV series, but no more Munsters projects have been announced since then.
Note that this was not the first unsuccessful reboot of The Munsters. Both the The Munsters' Revenge (1981) with Gwynne, Lewis, and DeCarlo as well as the recast Here Come the Munsters (1995) made-for-tv-movies were actually pilots for TV series which were never picked up. There was even an animated Saturday morning Munsters pilot called The Mini-Munsters (1973) which also never progressed beyond the pilot.
I actually like it, wish they continued.
shareYes, it was an interesting take on the "monster family" premise. I especially found Eddie Izzard's Grandpa character to be creatively written and acted. Even as a '60s Munsters fan, I enjoyed the pilot and am sorry that NBC pulled the plug on a series. It had a lot of potential.
What sort of chap is this brother-in-law of yours?
He's a nut!