"Designing Women," the hit sitcom that ran on CBS for seven seasons starting in 1986, is being considered for a reboot, led by the original creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the website TVLine reported.
Sony Pictures TV is behind the latest series reboot.
"Designing Women," which ran until 1993, revolved around four women who were the forces behind the fictional Sugarbaker & Associates design firm in Atlanta.
The series starred Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, Annie Potts, and Jean Smith. Meshach Taylor costarred as Anthony Bouvier, the women's assistant.
Carter died in 2010 and Taylor in 2014, and TVLine said it wasn’t clear if any of the remaining former stars will be involved in the reboot.
The website said Burke left the series after Season 5 when tensions between her and Bloodworth-Thomason surfaced. Smart left the series after Season 6 and both were replaced by Julia Duffy and Jan Hooks, TVLine said. Judith Ivey replaced Duffy in the show's final season.
Deadline reported earlier that Sony was in the early stages of rebooting the 1980s sitcom "The Facts of Life" and a potential "Mad About You" revival. Sony TV produced a "Mad About You" adaptation in China.
Another former CBS 1990s sitcom, "Murphy Brown," is expected to be updated to take on big theme issues like climate change, the Russian meddling scandal, and the current #MeToo movement.
That reboot includes many of the original cast members like Candice Bergen, Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto and Grant Shaud,
"Our show has always been in the real world, but I'm focusing the show through the prism of the press," creator Diane English told reporters at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour recently, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "The First Amendment is under attack like we've never seen it before."
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