Hulu has opted not to renew showbiz sitcom “Reboot” for a second season, the streamer said Monday.
A source close to the production tells TheWrap that creator Steven Levitan, multiple Emmy winner for the ABC hit “Modern Family,” is trying to find a new home for the comedy.
The series starred Rachel Bloom as a TV executive who successfully pitches a revival of her favorite 20-year-old sitcom, “Step Right Up,” and clashes occur between the cast, crew, and writers. It premiered on 20 September to favorable reviews Rotten Tomatoes is scoring it 88% from 40 critics’ entries, including TheWrap’s Thelma Adams, who called it “hilarious” and “constantly laugh-out-loud funny”.
The ensemble cast includes Judy Greer, Keegan-Michael Key, Johnny Knoxville and Calum Worthy from the original “Step Right Up” cast, Paul Reiser as series creator, and Krista Marie Yu as VP of Hulu. , who is “new to humor”.
In September, Levitan told TheWrap that the show grew out of a revelation he had during the pandemic that it might not be possible to create a show with as broad an appeal as “Modern Family”.
“You have to change the expectations now. So I didn’t want to chase something that made me feel like I was doing another version of [‘Modern Family’], I wanted to move forward creatively,” he said.
“It was a chance for me to figure out what I was doing during the day. And it didn’t start out like that. It started as an idea of a bunch of people coming back to a show and seeing how interesting It’s like a high school reunion or something where everyone is going in with all kinds of expectations and attitudes, and then you come back years later and maybe things are as you expected. Maybe they didn’t did,” he said.
