'Girl Meets World' Is A Go!

For those of you who grew up in the 90's, one of the iconic shows for you was Boy Meets World.  And yes, it was one of my guilty pleasure shows I enjoyed watching.

During its seven year run on ABC from 1993-2000 you got to follow Cory Matthews and his friends coming of age stories from their middle school years to their time at John Adams High and into college.  

You watched Cory's friendship with Topanga Lawrence blossom into a romance in which she eventually became his wife, but not without some bumps along the way including a breakup and her family's move to Pittsburgh.   You also got to watch Topanga as she morphed from being an eccentric hippie child to a mature, calm and collected young woman.

Rumors began flying in late 2012 about a possible spinoff to the show focusing on Cory and Topanga's 12 year old daughter Riley and her best friend Maya.  

The rumors and buzz got even more intense when Danielle Fishel and Ben Savage confirmed in November 2012 they would be reprising their Cory and Topanga roles for the pilot episode and Rowan Blanchard and Sabrina Carpenter were cast for the roles of Riley and Maya.  

William Daniels, AKA Mr. Feeny also made an appearance in the pilot episode.

As for as the other Boy Meets World cast, they are in various stages of talks with the producers to eventually make appearances on this show.   The producers have give the old cast members open invitations to participate in the new show if they wish and wanted to save some surprises for that first season. 

But the producers, Disney and the old cast are united in their determination to have Girl Meets World be the same type of quality show for this generation of kids that they enjoyed doing for the kids of the 90's.

Unlike Boy Meets World, which was set in Philadelphia, Girl Meets World is set in New York. Cory is now a history teacher with two of the students he is teaching being his daughter and Maya.

As for Topanga, she transitioned from a law career for life as an entrepreneur running a popular pudding shop that serves as a hangout for Riley and her friends. 

Riley will also have an older brother named Elliot and a potential love interest of her own in Tristan Friar, a transfer student from Texas.

Production on the series has already started in Los Angeles with the first episodes scheduled to air on Disney Channel in 2014.  

Here's hoping Girl Meets World does justice to the original show and lasts just as long as the original did.

Back To The Future II Day!

If you watched the Back To The Future trilogy of movies starring Michael J. Fox, remember the panel that was installed in the time traveling DeLorean that told you the departure time and the time you arrived?

Well, Back To The Future Part II was set in 2012 for most of it.  The time travel date that was selected was June 27, 2012 which is today.

While the imagined Back To The Future world of 2012 was on target in terms of the existence of the Miami Marlins and them being a championship caliber team, they have them placed in the wrong league.   And somebody was smoking some good Cali weed to think the Cubs would be World Series champions.

They also called it on multiple TV channels, video games you play without controllers, handled table computers, the plastic surgery explosion, wall mounted widescreen televisions, biofuels, security cameras everywhere, and video chats.

But it also missed on hoverboards, laser discs, fax machines being the preferred method of communication, or Pontiac dealerships still being around.

Another sad one was Queen Diana.  As we all painfully remember 'the People's Princess' died in a 1997 auto accident in Paris and as of yet we don't have a female US president but came close to making that one a reality.  

And yep, if we drive anywhere, we'll still need roads to do so since those cool flying cars we've seen in every sci-fi move since the 80's still have yet to be invented.

Charlie's Angels Coming Back This Fall

What's up with this trend in Hollywood of rebooting the 70's powerhouse shows?   While I'm happy to see the networks dumping the tired reality shows and doing scripted ones in which you have to hire writers and actors for them, I would like to see some original works for a change.

But then again, I have standards. ABC's Work It will not be one of the shows I watch this fall.

I won't have any problem with a remake of A Different World as long as we got to see some of the original cast members on a regular basis and Debbie Allen was either producing it or consulting on it.

But back to the post.   CBS rebooted Hawaii Five O.  TNT is bringing back Dallas next summer, and now we have a reboot of ABC's iconic 1977-1981 hit show Charlie's Angels. 

The original show featured Kate Jackson and two Texans, Houstonians Jaclyn Smith and Farrah Fawcett- Majors.  It became so popular that one of the hottest selling pinup posters of the tail end of that decade was one that featured Farrah Fawcett-Majors, and if your name is Jaclyn or Farrah, you have that show to thank for it..

The rebooted Charlie's Angels is slated for a thirteen episode run and will be set in Miami.   The new Angels are Texan Annie Ilonzeh as Kate Prince, Minka Kelly as Eve French and Rachael Taylor as Abby Simpson. 

Ilonzeh has the distinction of being the first African-American Angel, be it in the TV series or the movies.

John Bosley will be back and played by Ramon Rodriguez.   As for the voice of Charlie, that was going to be Robert Wagner, but due to scheduling conflicts he had to pull out of the Charlie's Angels 2K production.

The show is going to air on Thursday nights starting at 8 PM ET.  To my Canadian readers, CTV picked up the series as well so you'll get to see it.broadcast the same night except an hour earlier.

I was a huge fan of the original show, and frankly, I'm interested in seeing how the rebooted series gets handled.