Take a chair, children. Now turn that bad boy up and squat at Max's restaurant, because NBCUniversal's next streaming service, Peacock, is restarting "Saved By the Bell" – and Mario Lopez and Elizabeth Berkley will return as actors.
Peacock's "Saved by the Bell" reboot comes from Universal Television and will be written and produced by Tracey Wigfield. Peter Engel and Franco Bario will be the executive producers. Very good pedigree there, because Engel was an executive producer of "Saved By the Bell", as well as spin-offs from "The College Years" and "The New Class". Bario produced on each of these three series.
Here is the perfect logline of the new version:
When California governor Zack Morris gets into a bustle for closing too many low-income high schools, he proposes to send the affected students to the state's best-performing schools, including Bayside High. The influx of new students gives Bayside's over-privileged children an indispensable and hilarious dose of reality.
Yeah, Zack is the friggin governor.
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"Saved by the bell" in their glory
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Save the Bell – Season 3 – Image: (from left to right) Top: Tiffani Thiessen, Kelly Kapowski, Elizabeth Berkley, Jessie Spano, Mario Lopez, A.C. Slater, Lark Voorhies, Lisa Turtle; In the middle: Dustin Diamond as Screech Power; Bottom: Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris – Photo by: Chris Haston / NBCU Photo Bank
Promotional portrait of the cast of the TV series' Saved By The Bell & # 39; circa 1990. (Photo by Fotos International / Getty Images)
SAVED BY THE BELL – Season 1 – Pictured: Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zachary & # 39; Zack & # 39; Morris – Photo by: Sheryl Noday / NBCU Photo Bank
Saved by Bell – Media Tour – Pictured: (G) Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris, Tiffani Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski – Photo: Joseph Del Valle / NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
SAVED BY THE BELL – Season 1 – Pictured: Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zachary & # 39; Zack & # 39; Morris – Photo by: Sheryl Noday / NBCU Photo Bank
Bell Saver – Media Tour – Pictured: (left) Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris, Tiffani Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski – Photo by: Alan Singer / NBCU Photo Bank
SAVED BY THE BELL – Season 2 – In the photo: Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris – Photo by: Gary Null / NBCU Photo Bank
Saved by the Bell – Season 2 – Pictured: Tiffani Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski – Photo by: Gary Null / NBCU Photo Bank
OUT OF THE BELL – Pictured: (back, left) Mario Lopez as AC Slater, Lark Voorhies as Lisa Turtle, Tiffani Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski, Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano (at # 39; before) Mark-Paul Gosselaar in Zack Morris, Dustin Diamond as Screech Powers – Photo credit: NBCU Photo Bank.
SAVED BY THE BELL – Season 2 – In the photo: Lark Voorhies as Lisa Turtle, Tiffani Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski, Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano – Photo by: NBCU Photo Bank
SAVED BY THE BELL – Season 2 – Pictured: Dennis Haskins as Mr. Richard Belding – Photo by: Gary Null / NBC / NBCU Photo Bank
SAVED BY THE BELL – Pictured: Dustin Diamond as Screech Powers – (Photo: NBC / NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
SAVED BY THE BELL – "The Woman of Screech", episode 5 – Pictured: (from left to right) Mario Lopez as Albert Clifford "AC" Slater, Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zachary & Zack & # 39; Morris – (Photo: Paul Drinkwater / NBC / NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
Saved by the Bell – & # 39; The Screech Woman & # 39; Episode 5 – Pictured: (left) Dustin Diamond as Samuel & # 39; Screech & # 39; Powers, Mark-Paul Gosselaar under the name of Zachary's Zack & # 39; Morris – (Photo by: Paul Drinkwater / NBC / NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
Save the Bell – Episode 16 – Release Date (12/15/1990) – In the photo: (gd) Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris, Tiffani Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski, Lark Voorhies in the role Lisa Turtle, Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano, Mario Lopez as AC Slater – Photo by: Gary Null / NBCU Photo Bank
SAVED BY THE BELL – Episode 16 – "From Nurse to Worst" – Release date 15/12/1990 – In the photo: (gd) Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano, Lark Voorhies as Lisa Turtle, Mario Lopez as AC Slater – Photo by: Gary Null / NBCU Photo Bank
SAVED BY THE BELL – Season 3 –Imaged: Mario Lopez as A. Slater – Photo by: Chris Haston / NBCU Photo Bank
SAVED BY THE BELL – Season 3 –Imaged: Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris – Photo by: Chris Haston / NBCU Photo Bank
Saved By The Bell – House Party Episode 5 – Release Date 10/06/1990 – Pictured: (gd) Tiffani Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski, Lark Voorhies as Lisa Turtle, Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris and Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano, Mario Lopez as AC Slater, Dustin Diamond as Screech Powers, Jeffrey Asch as Maxwell Nerdstrom, Tori Spelling as Violet Anne Bickerstaff – Photo by: Paul Drinkwater / NBCU Photo Bank
Saved By The Bell – House Party Episode 5 – Release Date 10/06/1990 – Pictured: (gd) Ruth Buzzi as Roberta Powers, Dustin Diamond as Screech Powers, Dennis Haskins in the role of Mr. Richard Belding – Photo by: Paul Drinkwater / NBCU Photo Bank
SAVED BY THE BELL – Episode 15: "The fabulous boys of Belding" – Date aired (12/09/1990) – In the photo: (LR) Mario Lopez as AC Slater – Photo by: Alice S. Hall / Bank of NBCU photos
SAVED BY THE BELL – Episode 15: "The Fabulous Boys of Belding & # 39; – Date of 12/09/1990 – Photo: (gd) Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano, Mario Lopez as AC Slater – Photo by: Alice S. Hall / NBCU Photo Bank
Portrait of the cast for the TV series "Saved by the Bell", circa 1991. (Photo by NBC / Getty Images)
SAVED BY THE BELL – Episode # The back of my boyfriend & # 39; – Date of 10/05/1991 – Photo: Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano – Photo by: Joseph Del Valle / NBCU Photo Bank
SAVED BY THE BELL – Episode # My boyfriend is back & # 39; – Date of 10/05/1991 – Photo: Mario Lopez as A. Slater – Photo: Joseph Del Valle / NBCU Photo Bank
Saved By The Bell – Episode 24 of '# School Song & # 39; – Air Date: 28.11.1992 – Pictured: (gd) Leanna Creel as Tori Scott, Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris, Mario Lopez as AC Slater, Dustin Diamond as Powers Screech, Lark Voorhies as Lisa Turtle – Photo: Paul Drinkwater / NBCU Photo Bank
SAVED BY THE BELL – On the photo: Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano – Photo by: Alice S. Hall / NBCU Photo Bank
SAVED BY THE BELL – Pictured: Lark Voorhies as Lisa Turtle – Photo by: Alice S. Hall / NBCU Photo Bank
Save the Bell Tower: Hawaiian Style – Release Date 11/27/1992 – On the picture: Ashlee Lauren as Jennifer, Rena Sofer as Andrea Larson – Photo by: Joseph Del Valle / NBCU Photo Bank
SAVED BY THE BELL – Pictured: Tiffani Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski – Photo by: Alice S. Hall / NBCU Photo Bank
Economized by the Bell Tower: Hawaiian Style – Air Date Released 27/11/1992 – Pictured: Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris – Photo by: Joseph Del Valle / NBCU Photo Bank
Save the Bell Tower: Hawaiian Style – Date of 11/11/1992 – Photo: (gd) Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano, Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris, Tiffani Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski – Photo by: Joseph Del Valle / Bank of NBCU photos
SAVED BY THE BELL: HAWAII STYLE – Release Date 11/27/1992 – In the photo: Tiffani Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski, Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano – Photo by Joseph Del Valle / NBCU
SAVED BY THE BELL: THE COLLÉGIÈRES YEARS – Episode 1 of "Pilot" – Date of 22/05/1993 – In the photo: Dustin Diamond as powers Screech – Photo by: Paul Drinkwater / NBCU Photo Bank
SAVE BY THE BELL: HAWAII STYLE – Date of 11/11/1992 – Pictured: (gd) Dennis Haskins as Mr. Richard Belding, Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris, Tiffani Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski , Dustin Diamond as Screech Powers, Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano, Lark Voorhies as Lisa Turtle, Mario Lopez as AC Slater – Photo by: Joseph Del Valle / NBCU Photo Bank
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So, ah, does that mean that Mark-Paul Gosselaar, who has played Morris in all TV series and movies "Saved Bell the Bell", will also come back for the reboot? All that one person who knows of plans has told us is that she "always works on agreements".
A representative of Gosselaar and a spokesperson for NBCUniversal did not answer our question about his potential involvement.
Lopez, who will certainly be back, played the jock and the child of the army (we will not call him a "snotty," he was nice), A.C. Slater. Berkley played the super-successful and feminist Jessie Spano. The two characters date from much of the original series, as a result of a group of six very close friends trying to survive adolescence while they were attending Bayside High School in Palisades, California.
For now, Universal and Peacock are playing the rest of the details near the vest. We are hopeless romantics, however, and hope that Slater and Jessie will be married – or at least about to rekindle an old flame.
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Mario Lopez
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Mario Lopez at the premiere of Universal Pictures & # 39; & # 39; Hi, Caesar! & # 39;
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Lily James (left) and Mario Lopez visit Extra at Universal Studios Hollywood
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Gina Rodriguez (left) and Mario Lopez visit Extra at Universal Studios Hollywood
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Mario Lopez animates Extra in his New York studio at H & M in Times Square
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Mario Lopez and Bob the Builder help Habitat for Humanity build a home for a Los Angeles family
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Sarah Palin (left) and Mario Lopez visit Extra at Universal Studios Hollywood
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Mario Lopez and his daughter, Gia Lopez, arrive at the premiere of Disney-Pixar's "The Good Dinosaur"
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Mario Lopez and Alison Eastwood attend the 1st Annual Eastwood Ranch Foundation Fall Garden Fundraiser
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Mario Lopez (left) and his wife Courtney Mazza attend Mario Lopez to present Casa Mexico Tequila on David Tutera CELEBrations in Beso
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Mario Lopez and his wife Courtney Mazza attend the annual gala of the Eva Longoria Foundation in Beso
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Courtney Mazza, Gia Lopez and Mario Lopez attend the premiere of 'Annie & # 39;
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Angel Merino (left), renowned stylist and Mario Lopez, television personality, at Macy's celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
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Mario Lopez animates Extra in his New York studio at H & M in Times Square
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Mario Lopez (right), Courtney Mazza and their children, Gia Lopez and Dominic Lopez, attend L. A. Parent's 35th birthday celebration.
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Mario Lopez at the summer pool party of iHeart Radio at Caesars Palace
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Model Chrissy Teigen (left) visits Mario Lopez on the set of "Extra". at Universal Studios Hollywood
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Eva Longoria (left) and Mario Lopez visit Extra at Universal Studios Hollywood
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Mario Lopez, marshal of the Miami Beach gay parade, attends a press conference
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The actor Joel McHale (left) and Mario Lopez at BKB 2
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Mario Lopez (left) and his wife Courtney Mazza (right) attend the Life & Style Weekly 10th Anniversary Party
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA – OCTOBER 11: TV personality Mario Lopez attends the 60th Ferrari Gala in the United States at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on October 11, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Paul Archuleta / FilmMagic)
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As previously stated, "Punky Brewster" will also be restarted for Peacock. The new version will feature Soleil Moon Frye as an adult version of his former character.
NBCU's SVD service is also restarting the "Battlestar Galactica" drama. This one is courtesy of "Mr. Robot "creator Sam Esmail.
Peacock will be available in April 2020, with over 15,000 hours of content. We have no price yet, but Peacock will be both advertising and subscription funded.
