"Coach" staging a comeback with Craig T. Nelson
"Coach" is staging a return to television.
According to Entertainment Weekly, NBC is working a revival of the 1990s TV comedy with original star Craig T. Nelson. It's being positioned as a sequel to the series, which ran on ABC from 1989-1997.
The new show's description? "Coach Hayden Fox, in the present day, has retired from coaching. He is called back to become assistant coach to his own grown son, who is the new head coach at an Ivy league school in Pennsylvania that is just starting up a new team."
A reported 13 episodes have been ordered, and original coach creator, Barry Kemp, is said to be writing and executive producing the multi-cam sitcom.
Other original stars included Jerry Van Dyke, Shelley Fabares, Bill Fagerbakke and Clare Carey. No word yet on if they will return.
The original series saw Nelson, now 70 years old, portraying Hayden Fox, head coach of the fictional Division I-A college football team -- the Minnesota State University Screaming Eagles.
There's a bit of 1990s revival-fever going around, with Fox announcing this week that it's bringing back "The X-Files" for a six-episode event series.
