Fuller House, the long-awaited sequel/revival series for Full House, is currently in production. The show has already undergone a big change in terms of plot.
While at the Television Critics Association Press Tour earlier this week, Candace Cameron Bure, who is the main star of the new series, said that her character, D.J. Tanner no longer starts the series as a pregnant widow. That would have been a bit too dark for a family sitcom.
“She’s actually not pregnant any more,” Bure told Zap2It. “The baby’s been born, I think for that very reason we didn’t want to start it out quite so heavy, so some more time has passed than they originally intended.”
Fuller House is a twist on the Full House format, with D.J. as a widow with children. Sister Stephanie Tanner (Jodie Sweetin) and friend Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber) help her raise the children.
Bure told Zap2It that viewers will learn a bit about D.J.’s deceased husband as the series goes on, but she’s not sure where the writers plan on taking it.
“I don’t know any details of whether they’ll have flashback scenes or anything like that, I have no idea,” she said. “But we talk about him because you have to when that happens and you have children, it’s something that you have to discuss — discuss those emotions and the healing from it and how to move on with life.”
Another unknown factor for Fuller House is the role of Steve (Scott Weinger), who was D.J.’s high school boyfriend. As the Hollywood Reporter notes, Weinger did tweet a picture from the Fuller House set and Bure said that his character is not the deceased husband.
This week, we also learned that Blake Tuomy-Wilhoit and Dylan Clark Tuomy-Wilhoit will be back to play Uncle Jesse (John Stamos) and Aunt Becky’s (Lori Loughlin) twin boys, and there is surprisingly a slim chance that Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen will make an appearance. Loughlin also celebrated her 51st birthday on the set this week.
Fuller House will be available on Netflix next year.
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