TV revivals are all the rage these days. Scrubs is back on ABC like it never left, King of the Hill and Futurama are both hits on Hulu, and The Rockford Files is set to return to NBC later this season. Now, NBC is planning to bring back one of its biggest sitcom hits of the 1990s, with the star of one of the biggest sitcom hits of the 2000s.
Coach centered around Craig T. Nelson (Poltergeist) as Hayden Fox, coach of the Minnesota State University Screaming Eagles; it also starred Bill Fagerbakke (SpongeBob SquarePants) as lunkheaded special teams coach Michael “Dauber” Dybinski, Jerry Van Dyke (My Mother the Car) as lifelong bachelor defensive coordinator Luther Van Dam, and Shelley Fabares (One Day at a Time) as Christine Armstrong, TV anchorwoman and Fox’s girlfriend and later wife. The series ran for 9 seasons and 200 episodes; for its final two seasons, Fox and his supporting cast relocated to Orlando, Florida so he could coach an NFL expansion team.
Now, Deadline reports that Ty Burrell is being promoted to head coach. The Modern Family star will star in a new single-camera reboot of Coach, which was a multi-camera series. He’ll play a legendary pro coach who returns to his alma mater in Minnesota to revive its basketball program. It will be the first on-camera role for Burrell since Modern Family came to an end in 2020 after 11 seasons and 250 episodes; he has lent his voice to the animated series Duncanville and guested on Rick and Morty. Burrell will also executive produce the series alongside Daniel Libman and Matthew Libman; the duo previously created the Peacock basketball sitcom Mr. Throwback, which was cancelled after a single season in 2024. John Davis and John Fox of Davis Entertainment will also executive produce for .
Was Coach Revived Already?
Coach almost came back to TV screens everywhere in 2015. Nelson and Fagerbakke were set to return in a new revival series that would have seen Fox coming out of retirement to serve as a coach alongside his son Tim (Andrew Ridings, The Other Two) at an Ivy League school in Pennsylvania. The series was given a 13-episode order, but after the pilot episode was filmed, NBC opted not to move forward with the project.
Coach is in development at NBC.
via Collider