REBOOT: True Blood (HBO Max)
Status: In early development
Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is working on a reboot of HBO's True Blood, the vampire series based on Charlaine Harris' novels. Alan Ball, EP of the first series, is returning as an executive producer but former cast members will likely not return.
REBOOT/SEQUEL: Gossip Girl (HBO Max)
Status: Renewed for season two
Gossip Girl is back with its original creators, but not its original cast. The new show is set eight years after the original series and centers around a whole new group of Upper East Siders who aren't all white and straight and who are dealing with a whole new era of social media. It stars Emily Alyn Lind, Whitney Peak, Evan Mock, Jordan Alexander, Tavi Gevinson, Eli Brown, Thomas Doherty and Savannah Smith.
And this time, the teachers are Gossip Girl! XoXo
REBOOT: Walker, Texas Ranger (The CW)
Status: Airing its second season
Jared Padalecki stars in Walker, a reimagining of the classic Chuck Norris series as a Texas Ranger getting over the death of his wife (played by Genevieve Padalecki).Keegan Allen, Molly Hagan and Mitch Pileggi also star.
REVIVAL: Saved by the Bell (Peacock)
Status: Season two premiered on Nov. 24
The new and irreverent Saved By the Bell follows a whole new generation of high schoolers whose parents and teachers are the original cast of SBTB, including Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tiffani Thiessen and Lark Voorhies.
REBOOT: Clueless (Peacock)
Status: No longer happening.
Peacock had picked up a reboot and reimagining of the classic 1995 teen comedy (and subsequent TV series) that focused on Dionne, played by Stacey Dash in the movie. It had become a mystery, described as "a baby pink and bisexual blue-tinted, tiny sun-glasses wearing, oat milk latte and Adderall-fueled look at what happens when queen bee Cher disappears and her lifelong No. 2 Dionne steps into Cher's vacant Air Jordans."
Peacock passed on the show in May 2021.
REVIVAL: Lizzie McGuire (Disney+)
Status: No longer happening.
Lizzie McGuire would have been turning 30 in the Disney+ revival, which had even begun filming. Original showrunner Terri Minsky left over creative differences in January 2020 and production shut down. In December 2020, Hilary Duff announced that the show was no longer happening.