It’s been a great week for old TV shows. First The X-Files gets revived and now the ABC sitcom Coach is getting new life. Rather than get a new role after Parenthood, Craig T. Nelson will play Coach Hayden Fox once again.
However, unlike the original series, the new Coach will air on NBC. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the peacock network handed out a 13-episode order for the show, which will include series creator Barry Kemp back as writer.
Coach will retain its multi-camera format and follows the events of the original series. Deadline reports that the plot will find Hayden being an assistant coach to his now-grown son, who is a head coach at an Ivy League school. No other stars are attached at this point and there is no word on when it will debut.
The original Coach was a Universal TV production, which explains why NBC got it. The other three networks were interested, but NBC really pushed for it, likely to keep Nelson on the network.
The series ran from 1989 t0 1997. Nelson won an Emmy for the show in 1992 and was nominated for four Golden Globes.
Coach’s revival continues the ongoing trend of the networks bringing back long-dead shows, like the X-Files reboot announced earlier this week. Why create new ideas when you can mine the old ones?
Nelson just finished six seasons on NBC’s Parenthood. You can catch him on the big screen this weekend in Get Hard.
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