On Monday, NBC announced that their new streaming service Peacock is doing a Saved By the Bell reboot with Mario Lopez and Elizabeth Berkley. They also said that Zack is the Governor now and he is shutting down low-income schools.
Later that night, Variety spoke to Nark-Paul Gosselaar about it at and asked him how feels about the revival. He told them, “I read it in the trades just like everybody else this morning.” Then added, “I haven’t been approached,” and that he was a little taken off guard with the news. He had no idea they were this far along with the project.
Gosselaar understands that he might not be a part of the show because he is starring in the ABC sitcom Mixed-ish, who owns the streaming site Disney+, there might be a conflict for him to do something on a competitor’s show. If both of them could come up with an agreement, then he would do the reboot. That is if they ask him.
If I were him, I would tell his castmates screw you. Well, I would use other words. I mean how messed up is it that they did not even tell him this was a done deal. Not knocking the rest of the cast, but out of all of them, he is doing the best. He and Tiffani-Amber Theissen are the only ones who are still acting in gigs. They don’t need the show like the other ones.
However, they still should have told him. At least, the Beverly Hills, 90210 cast kept their co-stars in the loops.
Do we really want a SBTB reboot without Zack Morris and Kelly Taylor? Granted we don’t know if Theissen is available to be part of it because she has a show on Netflix, another streaming site. Or if they even told her about it.
I always thought these four were tight and would only do the reboot together. I guess they are not as tight as I thought.
BTW Is just me or does he seem kind of hurt that he did not know about the show?
Even though Zack and Kelly, and Slater and Jessie dated at Bayside High, you knew they were not going to wind up together at the end of the day. Even if you really wanted them too. And we did.
In real life, as we know none of the actors hooked up after the show ended. However, they are all still friends. Over the weekend, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tiffani Amber Thiessen, Mario Lopez and Elizabeth Berkley all got together with their spouses and ate dinner. Which makes think this would be a great idea for a reunion special to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Feeling old?
Now that you called Shady Pines to tour the grounds, would you tune in to watch your favorite high school friends from the ’90s reunite but have different partners? I know I’m So Excited to see them together again.
Since Lark Vorhees and Dustin Diamond are not there, maybe they are the ones that actually got married and lived happily ever after.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSD5XeuM-Ws
It seems like every show with kids from the ’90s is coming back as a reboot, so what about Saved By the Bell. Yesterday, when Mark-Paul Gosselaar was on Extra, a fan wanted to know if he and Mario Lopez are up for reviving their show.
Slater did not want to put it on his slate because it is a little hard to do since they are not in high school anymore. Then he thought that maybe it could be about their kids going to Bayside.
MPG had a different approach, “I’ve always answered it, also, I think we’re open to the idea.” That is when Lopez agreed. Someone get Peter Engel on the phone with NBC and let’s make this happen ASAP. We need their cheesiness back in our lives.
Back on Saved By the Bell, it was all about Zack and Kelly. In real life, it was all about Elizabeth Berkley and Mark-Paul Gosselaar. The actor told Anna Faris on her podcast Unqualified (via People) that the two of them dated.
He explained, “When you’re working on a set, and we were young, there’s no one around really. I mean, you work and live in a bubble.” Because of that, he admitted, “All of us dated at one point or another — it was incestuous!”
It was not all lovey-dovey because he added, “Sometimes the girls would gang up on the guys. [Tiffani Thiessen] and Elizabeth would hate me, and then they’d hate [Lark Voorhies] because Lark was talking to me, and [Mario Lopez] was supposed to side with someone. All that stuff you did in high school, like, ‘How could you talk to him?’”
Not only were they playing high school students, but they were also living life like they were really high school students. Which is why we believed they were actually in high school because they were.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar is going under the knife today for shoulder surgery, and he went for a roll with a Mario Lopez beforehand. Not in the hay, but on a mat. The two Saved By the Bell actors took Jiu-Jitsu and spent an hour and a half rolling around the floor. When they were done, all I could think of is sweating to the oldies when I saw this photo! They don't look their age, but I am sure they are feeling it today.
In all seriousness, it is nice to see that they are still friends after thirty years. Can you believe it has been that long? Now you are feeling old too, right?
