Alright, Pushing Daisies fans, here’s what you have to look forward to next. The creator of that series has gotten a pilot pickup from Universal Television and hopes for an NBC pickup for a reboot of the 1960’s series The Munsters. The series is definitely not recreating what the original was in a way as it’s apparently being envisioned as an hour long drama. The development for it has been kicking around a bit and is one of the few to survive some upper echelon team transitions over at Universal TV recently, and it got a new request back in September for a fuller script from the approved outline. And that’s been very positively received, though they may not go the traditional route on it. According to Deadline, they may view it as a summer or event series, so it wouldn’t have to deal with the things that a full on series does with pickups and so forth.
Like Fuller’s previous series, Pushing Daisies, the project features striking visuals mixed with all the classic Munsters archetypes. Grandpa Sam Dracula is essentially Dracula who assembled Herman because no man was good enough for his daughter Lily, a sexy vamp. Lily’s niece Marilyn the freak is actually normal and Lily and Herman’s only child, Eddie, has his werewolf tendencies surface in puberty, forcing the family to relocate to their famous 1313 Mockingbird Lane address.
[Source: Deadline]
