Regardless of her greatest efforts, Mayim Bialik says a deliberate revival of “Blossom” gained’t be occurring.
The five-time Emmy nominee shared the information in a prolonged submit on her Substack, printed Monday. In it, she remembers how she and authentic sequence creator Don Reo had mentioned a contemporary tackle the NBC sitcom after her stint on “The Big Bang Theory” got here to an finish in 2019.
Bialik says she and Reo introduced their imaginative and prescient for a “Blossom” revival to executives at Disney, who “seemed to love it” and “understood what we wanted to do.”
Feeling “certain” that the revival “was moving forward,” Bialik went on to star in Fox’s “Call Me Kat” and serve as a co-host of “Jeopardy!” As soon as her schedule was clear on the conclusion of these stints, nonetheless, she says Disney put the nail within the new sequence’ coffin.
“For no particular reason, we were told ‘no.’ We asked for the rights so that we could let the market decide if audiences might want to see these characters all these years later,” she defined, per TV Line. “We were told Disney reserves the rights in case they ever want to do a reboot of ‘Blossom.’ The reboot we all wanted to do was now, with Don’s script.”
HuffPost reached out to Disney representatives in search of touch upon Bialik’s remarks, however didn’t instantly hear again.
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“Blossom,” which aired on NBC from 1991 to 1995, adopted Blossom Russo (performed by Bialik), a spunky, wise-beyond-her-years teen who’s adjusting to life along with her newly single father, Nick (Ted Wass), and different brothers Tony (Michael Stoyanov) and Joey (Joey Lawrence).
The principally lighthearted sequence was praised for its considerate tackle plenty of hot-button points, together with drug and alcohol habit, home violence and sexual assault.
For a lot of followers, information of yet one more revival getting scrapped could not come as a shock, given the questionable high quality and seemingly inevitable destiny of different latest spinoff sequence. Nevertheless, Bialik had been dropping hints about bringing “Blossom” again for a while. In 2021, she instructed Entertainment Weekly that she and Reo had been at work on a “limited reboot,” however acknowledged the pair have “had a lot of trouble getting our network onboard.”
Two years later, she instructed Self-importance Truthful that plans for Blossom’s return had been nonetheless on, however probably in a distinct, non-comedic format.
“We want to bring back these interesting, deep characters — a child of divorce, a recovering drug addict, an alcoholic — to see them in a whole new way,” she mentioned.
In her Substack submit, Bialik mentioned her “desire to continue to pursue on-camera roles has waned” since receiving the information.
“It’s not the industry Don and I grew up in, and ‘Blossom’ felt like my last attempt to try and assert myself as an actress,” she defined. “While it is possible no one wants a ‘Blossom’ reboot, I’m pretty certain Disney got this one wrong.”
She went on to notice: “The sun is gonna surely shine. Maybe not the way Don and I intended, but this door closed. While we didn’t want it to, we are powerless over every aspect of it except what we know to be true: we loved this possibility with all that we have and we are so so sorry we couldn’t get it to happen.”
