Tell me a story

The answer is not quite.

What Vince is working on is more of a sequel than a reboot. The original Brady Bunch followed what happened when single father Mike Brady married single mother Carol Ann Martin and brought her three daughters—Marcia, Jan, and Cindy—to live with him, his three boys—Greg, Peter, and Bobby—and his housekeeper. (And what happened was heart-warming hilarity.)

Vince’s Brady Bunch will follow a divorced Bobby Brady who has a child of his own and gets remarried to a single mother. Just how many kids she has is unknown at this moment, but this time the two parents will actually share a child together. What’ll also be different this time around is that the parents’ exes will still be in the picture somehow. This should bring a whole slew of issues that the original Brady Bunch didn’t dare touch in the 70’s, like visitation issues, alimony, jealousy, and the whole biological parent vs. step parent.

Vince came up with the idea and will be an executive producer of the show through his production company, Wild West Picture Show Productions. Mike Mariano, who was a writer and producer on My Name is Earl and Raising Hope, is set to pen the script.

It seems like an interesting enough premise for a show, and I’ve got enough Brady nostalgia to give it a chance, but I’d be more excited if Vince was going to be in the show or at least a writer. I’ve never watched either of Mariano’s shows, but I’ve heard plenty of good things about them, so maybe this one will have some promise. We’ll just have to wait and see.

Sources: Deadline.com, Slashfilm.com