News Northern Exposure is the newest show to return

[The Nth Doctor]

Variety reports that Northern Exposure is the newest show to return to our airwaves.

Original series star Rob Morrow will reprise his role as Dr. Joel Fleischman, who returns to Cicely, Ala., for the funeral of an old friend. Once there, he finds a new set of quirky characters and reunites with old ones.

Morrow will also executive produce in addition to starring. Fellow original series star John Corbett is attached as a producer, though he is not set to appear in the revival at this time.

Josh Brand will write and executive produce, with Morrow, John Falsey, and Ben Silverman executive producing. Universal Television will produce. Brand and Falsey co-created the original series. The duo also co-created the medical drama “St. Elsewhere” as well as shows like “A Year in the Life,” “Going to Extremes,” and “I’ll Fly Away.”​

Whaaa...? I don't know if I like this idea. I loved the show (even the rough final season), but I'm not sure if I want this back, especially if not everyone returns.

Plus, it's pretty damn ironic that it's Rob Morrow who's bringing it back.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Ala.

So the revival is set in Alabama?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_abbreviations

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Ha! I didn't even notice that. Hell of a mistake on Variety's part.

Edit: The article has already been corrected. Still, pretty bad mistake to slip past the copy editors.

 

[Professor Zoom]

Variety reports that Northern Exposure is the newest show to return to our airwaves.

Original series star Rob Morrow will reprise his role as Dr. Joel Fleischman, who returns to Cicely, Ala., for the funeral of an old friend. Once there, he finds a new set of quirky characters and reunites with old ones.

Morrow will also executive produce in addition to starring. Fellow original series star John Corbett is attached as a producer, though he is not set to appear in the revival at this time.

Josh Brand will write and executive produce, with Morrow, John Falsey, and Ben Silverman executive producing. Universal Television will produce. Brand and Falsey co-created the original series. The duo also co-created the medical drama “St. Elsewhere” as well as shows like “A Year in the Life,” “Going to Extremes,” and “I’ll Fly Away.”​

Whaaa...? I don't know if I like this idea. I loved the show (even the rough final season), but I'm not sure if I want this back, especially if not everyone returns.

Plus, it's pretty damn ironic that it's Rob Morrow who's bringing it back.

Sigh.

 

[Mysterion]

Ha! I didn't even notice that. Hell of a mistake on Variety's part.

Edit: The article has already been corrected. Still, pretty bad mistake to slip past the copy editors.

I used to get that all the time in the Army - I was born in Fairbanks, AK (Alaska) and was having to continuously ask to have my records corrected as they would somehow manage to mis-record it as "Fairbanks, AL (Alabama).

As for Northern Exposure - happy to give it chance, but skeptical they can recapture that particular lightning in the same bottle again.

 

[Random_Spock]

Ha! I didn't even notice that. Hell of a mistake on Variety's part.

Edit: The article has already been corrected. Still, pretty bad mistake to slip past the copy editors.

Word. It would have been a far different show than what it was.

 

[Aragorn]

I never watched the show, but he's the one who bailed on the show in the first place and brought it to an end, wasn't he? Or was the show already on the way down before his departure?

It would be like David Caruso wanting to revive NYPD Blue or Shelly Long bringing back Cheers.

 

[Mysterion]

I never watched the show, but he's the one who bailed on the show in the first place and brought it to an end, wasn't he? Or was the show already on the way down before his departure?

It would be like David Caruso wanting to revive NYPD Blue or Shelly Long bringing back Cheers.

In other news Denise Crosby and Genevieve Bujold will be pitching reboots of TNG and Voyager...

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I used to get that all the time in the Army - I was born in Fairbanks, AK (Alaska) and was having to continuously ask to have my records corrected as they would somehow manage to mis-record it as "Fairbanks, AL (Alabama).

I should've caught it because I worked as a journalist with the Navy for seven years. Copy editing is my thing and my eyes glazed right over it. My defense is I mentally autocorrected it. Yeah, that's it!

As for Northern Exposure - happy to give it chance, but skeptical they can recapture that particular lightning in the same bottle again.

That's the key right there. It took Will & Grace awhile but it's slowly managed it. The Connors got it quickly but only after dumping Roseanne. Murphy Brown has fallen flat on its face.

Word. It would have been a far different show than what it was.

Would be a hell of a pitch. I mean, I'm sure Joel would hate Alabama just as much as he initially hated Alaska.

I never watched the show, but he's the one who bailed on the show in the first place and brought it to an end, wasn't he? Or was the show already on the way down before his departure?

More or less, after all the very basis of the show was Joel being the fish out of water. However, he left due to a contract dispute (I don't remember the details), so it's not quite "he bailed."

 

[StarCruiser]

Ha! I didn't even notice that. Hell of a mistake on Variety's part.

Edit: The article has already been corrected. Still, pretty bad mistake to slip past the copy editors.

Copy Editors?!? What are those?

Seriously, just a casual look around the internet will reveal the utter lack of anything resembling editors!

 

[DarrenTR1970]

What I liked about Northern Exposure was that it was filmed here in Washington State, with the exteriors being filmed in Roslyn and the interior scenes shot at a converted warehouse in Redmond, so a lot of the locations were very familiar to me.

That, and the fact that for most of the show's run, the actors and actresses made their home in the Woodinville/Redmond/Bellevue area and you would occasionally see them at the grocery store. Peg Phillips I saw the most, simply because she already lived in Woodinville before she was cast, followed by Janine Turner who bought a home not far from Peg, and Cynthia Geary who had a home on Lake Sammamish and spoke at Peg's funeral. John Cullum, I believe, had a home somewhere in Bellevue. Rob Morrow, I think, commuted from LA and never had a permanent residence.

When the show was cancelled they held an auction and opened the soundstage to the public; I couldn't believe how many filming interiors they managed to squeeze into such a small space.

If the camera was pointed in another direction, John Corbett's radio booth looked Fleishman's living room, and the door into the radio booth opened back into Fleishman's waiting room and office. Part of the bar might have been there as well. The back of the warehouse was devoted to Barry Corbin's house. It was a huge two-story set with an exterior backdrop. There were two of them, summer and winter. There were also the "wild sets" (if I'm using the terminology correctly) that could be converted to fit the scene as necessitated by the script.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Copy Editors?!? What are those?

Seriously, just a casual look around the internet will reveal the utter lack of anything resembling editors!

Well, sure, but this is Variety, a longtime and well-respected entertainment news magazine.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Holling is supposed to have triple the life span of a regular American.

The actor was on The Middle as the Grampy on and off, but I assume that the character is doing much better than the actor who is supposed to be representing him.

 

[Pingfah]

Well, I'll give anything a chance to prove itself. I loved the original show.

Hope Janine Turner is in it.