Editorial Staff
Classic sitcom “Alice”, the Linda Lavin-starring CBS laffer from the ’70s, is getting the reboot treatment at Fox.
Diablo Cody (”One Mississippi”), Liz Astrof (”2 Broke Girls”) and Warner Bros. TV, which produced the original series and where Cody and her Vita Vera Films are based, are teaming on the redo, which will be written and executive produced by Cody and Astrof.
The original series, which ran for nine seasons from 1976-1985, was based on Martin Scorsese’s “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”.
The new version will focus on Long Island housewife Alice Hyatt, who has finally worked up the courage to leave her cheating husband. She drives cross-country to Arizona with her teenage son Tommy, and gets a job as a waitress at a roadside diner where the staff becomes their new surrogate family.
Via ‘Deadline‘
