TV’s first working class comedy will be modernized in CBS’s The Honeymooners reboot.
Bang zoom, to the moon, Alice. It looks like the everyman bus driver from Brooklyn, with his get-quick schemes and his sleepwalking, Captain Video-hat-wearing, sewer cleaning neighbor, is going to try and hit the high note on his cornet again. CBS announced it is developing a modern-day reboot of the classic TV series The Honeymooners.
The Honeymoonersreboot will be written and executive produced by The Muppets‘ Bob Kushell. The series will be a multi-camera comedy focusing on two couples, because CBS did so well with their reboot of The Odd Couple– why not double down?
The Honeymooners was a spinoff off from a recurring 1951-55 sketch that ran on The Jackie Gleason Show, which was filmed in front of a live audience. It debuted as a half-hour series on October 1, 1955 on the DuMont network's Cavalcade of Stars.
Gleason played Bensonhurst bus driver Ralph Kramden on the original series he created and produced. Audrey Meadows played his wife Alice. Art Carney played his upstairs neighbor and best friend Ed Norton and Joyce Randolph played Trixie Norton. The last episode of the series aired on September 22, 1956 but Gleason brought it back occasionally until 1978.
The Honeymooners was made into a movie starring Cedric the Entertainer, Gabrielle Union, Mike Epps and Regina Hall in 2005.
SOURCE: THR