reboot defied expectations when it premiered on Peacock over Thanksgiving. “That seems to be everyone’s feeling,” executive producer Tracey Wigfield tells ET with a laugh, adding when people first heard about it, they wanted to write it off.
Instead, she was “so heartened when people gave it a chance and responded to it in such a big way.” After its original run from 1989 to 1994, Wigfield brought the high school comedy out of its bubble and infused it with a modern sensibility that comes from her years of writing on, and creating the short-lived series . “The original had a very different tone.