Sorry to disappoint, Full House fans, but a sequel series featuring the Tanner girls as adults is apparently a hoax.
Several media outlets, including The Inquisitr , picked up a report by Disney Treasures that stated the beloved ’90s sitcom would be getting a sequel written by the show’s original creator, Jeff Franklin.
However, the piece quoted an interview that Franklin supposedly gave to the Newport Gazette , a Rhode Island newspaper that closed in 1979 , according to TODAY .
“Last month I was asked by ABC and [Warner Bros.] to write a new show for the Full House characters,” Franklin was quoted as saying. “Everyone I’ve spoken with were very open to the idea [of returning].”
The supposed Full House sequel would have followed a grownup D.J. (Candace Cameron Bure) and Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin).
Sadly, the report was false. The story that ran on Disney Treasures was a copy of an April Fool’s Day hoax that originally ran on ScreenRant .
However, a Full House sequel didn’t seem quite so unlikely with another popular ’90s sitcom, Boy Meets World , recently getting a spinoff. Girl Meets World follows an adult Cory and Topanga Matthews, who are now parents to a 12-year-old daughter, Riley. Cory is now a middle-school teacher and Topanga is now the owner-operator of a restaurant that specializes in pudding.
Not only that, but it was recently announced that a Charmed reboot is heading to CBS . The network has ordered a pilot script that is said to be written by Chris Keyser, who wrote Party of Five .
The stars of the original series, however, don’t seem to be too thrilled with the reboot. Alyssa Milano, who played Phoebe Halliwell, said it felt “too close” to the original series , which only ended in 2006. She did say, however, that a movie would be a better idea.
Rose McGowan, who played the Halliwells half-sister Paige Matthews, called the reboot “lame lame lame lamertons.”
Full House star Lori Loughlin, who played Becky, recently said she preferred to leave the series alone. While the cast has reunited informally since the series ended, Loughlin said she didn’t think a reunion show would be a good idea .
“I don’t think that there are any plans for a movie,” Loughlin said. “If it were a really good script and a great project, but sometimes I think that it’s better off to leave those TV shows as they were and not do reunion shows.”
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