Alyssa Milano teases the Who's The Boss sequel show in development. Other than the popular sitcom, the actress is known for her roles in Melrose Place, Charmed, My Name Is Earl, Mistresses, Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Later, and Insatiable. Milano recently starred in the new Netflix thriller, Brazen, as a crime expert and mystery writer who investigates the death of her sister, a webcam performer. Other than her acting roles, Milano has unknowingly lent her namesake to Star-Lord's ship in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Who's The Boss follows Tony Danza as Tony Micelli, a retired Major League Baseball player who moves to Fairfield, Connecticut with his daughter, Samantha (Milano). There, Tony takes a job as a live-in housekeeper for a divorced advertising executive, Angela Bower (Judith Light), and her son Jonathan (Danny Pintauro). Also making frequent appearances is Angela's feisty mother, Mona Robinson (Katherine Helmond). The show premiered on ABC in 1984 and ran for eight seasons before concluding in 1992. Since ending, Who's The Boss has remained one of the most popular sitcoms of its era and thus, interest in a revival has remained high.
Now, during an interview with Fox 5's Good Day New York, Milano teased the Who's The Boss sequel show that has been in development for several years. The pandemic has delayed the project a bit, but Milano hopes it will come into fruition soon. The actress says producers are currently working to “figure out what the show would look like” and “what stage in our lives we would pick up from.” Read what she had to say below:
We’re actually developing a reboot, well it’s more of a sequel and we’ve been developing it now for a couple of years. The pandemic sort of put everything on hold, but we’re hopeful that before I’m in my 70s we’ll be able to.
Milano's update does not offer much new information from when the Who's The Boss sequel show was first announced, though it's nice to hear the project is still in development and has not fallen to the wayside. It was previously reported that the revival would take place 30 years after the events of the original show and find Sam living as single mother with her father, though now Milano says they are still working to hash out these details.
The sequel show is being developed at Sony, though there's no word as the whether it will be a streaming or traditional network series. If the sequel show has any chance of getting off the ground, it will require the return of both Milano and Danza to maintain its signature father-daughter camaraderie. If the success of recently revived sitcoms like The Conners, Fuller House, and Will & Grace is any indication, Who's The Boss should find a suitor very soon.
Source: Fox 5's Good Day New York