Red swimsuits will soon be back on the beaches of Malibu.
According to the American media Variety, a new version of the 1990s American series “Baywatch” (“Baywatch” in original version) is being prepared by Fox.
Twenty-five years after the end of the adventures of Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff, the cult series will make its comeback in a new version, with a new cast.
However, there is no question of changing the plot of the series which will highlight a “whole new generation of Baywatch lifeguards” having to face numerous emergency situations, both on the beach and “in their complicated personal lives and disordered,” specifies Fox.
Screenwriter Lara Olsen will be in charge of writing this “reboot”, she who has already collaborated on several successful series such as “90210 Beverly Hills – New Generation”, a series derived from the cult series “Beverly Hills 90210”, or even on “Private Practice”, the spin-off of “Grey’s Anatomy”.
The creators of the original series, Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz and Gregory J. Bonann, will take care of the production of this new series.
For now, no announcement regarding the casting and the broadcast date has been made.
More than a billion viewers per week
As a reminder, the original show of 11 seasons and 243 episodes was broadcast in the United States between 1989 and 2001 and in France from 1991. The first nine seasons took place in Los Angeles then the last two in Hawaii.
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A true success around the world, the series which revealed Pamela Anderson attracted, at its peak, more than a billion viewers per week, a record.
Since its launch, it has had the right to a spin-off series entitled “A Private in Malibu”, various TV films during the 2000s and a cinema remake in 2017, with Zac Efron and Dwayne Johnson.