OT: COACH is coming back!!!

Submitted by GoWings2008 on

Don't know how many people were fans of the show, but NBC has ordered a 13 episode sequel to the Craig T. Nelson starred show....having Nelson revise his role as Hayden Fox and becoming an assistant for his now-grown son at an Ivy League school.  Themes sound somewhat familiar....

Link:  http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/coach-revival-starring-craig-t-nelson-ordered-to-series-at-nbc/ar-AAa3LrV

Additionally, I heard a tidbit on the radio this morning that Key and Peel are supposedly making a movie based upon the Substitute Teacher skit, famously coining the term "A-A-RON."  Can't wait for that one!

LJ

March 27th, 2015 at 10:36 AM ^

My only exposure to the show was occassionally running into it while channel surfing as a teenager.  I usually made it about 30 seconds before I couldn't tolerate it any longer and moved on to seinfeld re-runs.

LSAClassOf2000

March 27th, 2015 at 10:44 AM ^

"Caoch" was one of my many "will not miss unless dire emergency" shows back in the day and I was really into it from day one as was the rest of my family. Like others, I have been rewatching it periodically on Netflix and even introducing my wife to it, although her reply was, "You WOULD like this show..."

Great to see this one being revived in some form actually.

Benoit Balls

March 27th, 2015 at 10:50 AM ^

is coming back, I'm afraid it wont be close to what it was. I loved that show, but it was mor about the cast of characters than Hayden Fox himself. Im cautiously optimistic.

Maizenblueball

March 27th, 2015 at 11:05 AM ^

Craig T. Nelson was good, but you're right, the supporting actors on that show were what made it a great show to me.  I'll probably give the new show a look to see how it is.

Side note: What this move by NBC tells me, is that they are all out of fresh ideas and are desperate for a hit show, since they've had so many failures lately. 

julesh

March 27th, 2015 at 10:57 AM ^

So this takes place at some unnamed Ivy League school in Pennsylvania (I wonder what school that is?) that is just starting up a football program (despite the Ivy League being based on football), and they decide to hire Coach Fox's 18-year-old son as head coach. Or do kids age faster when they aren't on TV?

oldblue

March 27th, 2015 at 11:31 AM ^

FIrst, Shelly Fabares has probably aged, and, second, back then, he coached at a non-existent school named Minnesota State, and now, Minnesota State is the number one seed in the NCAA Hockey tournament.