'Full House' revival news: Show returns on TV as 'Fuller House' on Netflix
The late-'80s/early '90s TV series "Full House" is coming back on screen after almost 30 years since it first aired. This time, Netflix is recreating the classic with a new name, "Fuller House."
Jeff Franklin, the creator of "Full House" and "Fuller House," said in an interview with Variety, "I played around with every plotline imaginable. I was very reticent to repeat the original premise so blatantly. We flipped the premise; we flipped the whole series. The Tanners do have some bad luck, but that makes us all root for them."
The original series centered on three men who were raising three little girls. Danny Tanner (Bob Saget) asked the help of his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis (John Stamos) and best friend Joey Gladstone (Dave Coulier) to raise his daughters after his wife got killed in a car accident.
In the reboot of the TV series, there's a switch as two of Danny's now grown daughters will be taking care of little boys. The recently-widowed D.J. Tanner (Candace Cameron-Bure) returns to her childhood home with her three sons. Her younger sister Stephanie Tanner (Jodie Sweetin) and best friend Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber) decide to move in together to help in raising her kids.
The show is said to have retained most of the artists from the first show. However, the Olsen twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley, decided not to join the cast of the revival.
Executive producer Bob Boyett told PEOPLE, "Ashley said, 'I have not been in front of a camera since I was 17 and I don't feel comfortable acting. Mary-Kate said, 'It would have to be me because Ash doesn't want to do it. But the timing is so bad for us.'"
Coulier, who still plays Joey, answered on Fox News what is to be expected from "Fuller House."
"It is really Full House 2.0," he said. "It's kind of an update to the operating systems so it catches us all up with where we all are in our lives today, and so a lot of the same traditional family values of the old 'Full House' are going to be in this as well."
"Fuller House" is coming to Netflix with 13 episodes on Feb. 26.