Nothing to be mad about here — “Mad About You” is coming back, original cast intact.
Stars Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt have both inked deals with Sony Pictures Television to reprise their roles as Paul and Jamie Buchman, Entertainment Weekly reports.
Co-creator Danny Jacobson is also reportedly game to return.
The revival has yet to be shopped to a network, but it’ll likely be snapped up quickly considering the massive success of ABC’s “Roseanne” and NBC’s “Will & Grace” re-dos.
“Mad About You,” which aired for seven seasons from 1992 to 1999, followed the lives of newlyweds living in New York City. Paul, a documentary filmmaker, and Jamie, a public relations specialist, welcomed a daughter, Mabel, in Season 6.
It remains unclear how a reboot would address the series’ finale, which offered a glimpse 20 years into the future, showing a grown-up Mabel — and a brief Jamie and Paul split.
“One of the things we did deliberately in the finale was that we jumped ahead in the future. We saw where they went,” Reiser told Variety in 2016. “Part of why we did that was to avoid the temptation of going back…When you watch a reunion (show), all you do is say ‘Wow do they look older.’ “
Now that that temptation has been indulged, Hunt, 54, said in a recent interview that she and her on-screen husband, 62, have been discussing the best way to go about bringing back the Emmy-nominated series.
“We’re talking about how to make it and not wreck it, because we’re proud of what we did,” she said, adding in a separate interview that a reboot would be a “dream.”
“I’ve been watching ‘Will & Grace’ and laughing so hard out loud, they’re just crushing it,” she told People. “It would be fun to work on something that’s really about love. We’ll be older, though — I hope people are prepared for that. I’m not prepared for it!”
TV Line reported in December that a reboot would likely involve Paul and Jamie’s struggles with empty-nest syndrome after a teenage Mabel heads off to college.
Sony had no comment.
