Ready your celebratory Carlton dance - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air might be coming back to our screens.
TVLine claims to have heard from ‘multiple sources’ that Will Smith’s production company Overbrook are in the early stages of developing a rebooted version of the show, which would take place in the present day but retain the “fish-out-of-water” narrative from the original.
A pitch is apparently being finalised now and will shopped to different networks in the coming weeks, with Will Smith serving as a producer alongside Jada Pinkett-Smith, Caleb Pinkett and James Lassiter.
NBC recently denied that it was involved with the project, but Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt said he’d “be happy to talk to Will [Smith] about it.”
I’m sure he would - there is immense nostalgia for Fresh Prince, which made viewers laugh and cry in equal measure, and it’s easy to imagine how a modern day version of the story might work, especially given the climate in the US right now in the wake of Ferguson, Charleston and more.
The reboot comes as little surprise given just about everything is being revived these days.
Earlier in the week, it was announced that Prison Break would be coming back from the dead for a new season simply because tons of people had been binging the old ones on Netflix.
