K.T Simpson
Chances are a lot of us were born after “Hogan’s Heroes” finished on TV, being that the show was popular in the 60s, but the classic TV sitcom is making a comeback! The show is set to be rebooted by the original series co-creator Al Ruddy alongside Village Roadshow Entertainment Group and Rough Pictures.
Per Deadline, the reimagined version will be a single-camera action adventure comedy series set in present day focusing on the descendants of the original heroes, now scattered around the world, who team up for a global treasure hunt.
Ruddy will executive produce with Rough House Pictures principals Danny McBride, David Gordon Green and Jody Hill and the company’s president of production Brandon James.
Alongside Ruddy, “Hogan’s Heroes” was also created by the late Bernard Fein, and aired for 168 episodes that ran on CBS from 1965-1971. It centred around a group of Allied POWs imprisoned in a German prison camp, led by U.S. Colonel Robert Hogan, who secretly used the camp to launch Allied espionage missions. The series starred Bob Crane as Hogan, Werner Klemperer as Colonel Wilhelm Klink, Richard Dawson as Corporal Peter Newkirk and John Banner as Sergeant Hans Schultz.
