Peacock Picks Up ‘Clueless’ (With A Mystery Twist) Reboot TV Series
Back in October, it was revealed CBS Studios was working on a new tv reboot of classic 90s movie ‘Clueless‘. Now that series has a home, as it’s revealed NBC streaming service Peacock has picked up the dramedy.
The original 1995 ‘Clueless’ film was a coming-of-age romantic comedy, which followed Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz, the popular, blonde Valley Girl, along with her best friend Dionne Davenport (Stacey Dash), who “adopt” the “tragically unhip” new girl at school, Tai Frasier (Brittany Murphy) and give her a makeover. Cher soon comes to realise that her rather vain and superficial way of thinking might not be the best way to travel through life. It’s a fun, entertaining, light-hearted comedy, whereas this new iteration plans on taking things in a very different direction…
Described as “Mean Girls meets Riverdale”, this new take is set in present-day LA and sees Dionne set as the main character, after her BFF, Cher, goes missing. It is a “baby-pink and bisexual blue-tinted, tiny sunglasses-wearing, oat milk latte and Adderall-fueled look” at what happens when the high school queen bee Cher disappears and her lifelong number two, 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 unravelling the mystery of what happened to her best friend?
The show comes from ‘Will & Grace’ writers Jordan Reddout and Gus Hickey, and is exec produced by Corinne Brinkerhoff (‘American Gothic’, ‘No Tomorrow’), Tiffany Grant, and Robert Lawrence (who produced the original film).
This isn’t the first time ‘Clueless’ has been on TV, as there was a tv series back in 1996 which ran for three seasons, and saw Rachel Blanchard replacing Silverstone as Cher due to the latter being unavailable. There was a previous attempt to reboot the property in 2018 from ‘Girls Trip’ writer Tracy Oliver, but it failed to go anywhere. The film was also the basis for a stage show, ‘Clueless: The Musical’, which launched in New York in 2018.
There is no casting in place yet, or a premiere date, but the ‘Clueless‘ series will come to Peacock in the USA. There is a fair chance this may end up on Sky in the UK, due to NBC/Peacock and Sky being owned by Comcast, but nothing is confirmed at the moment. We’ll let you know when we hear more.
