Here’s a new story about a man named Brady, Bobby Brady that is.
CBS has announced they will be working with Vince Vaughn on a new Brady Bunch spinoff, focusing on the life of the youngest Brady son, Bobby, as a divorcee who is now remarried, with a blended family of his own.
The original Brady Bunch focused on Mike Brady, a widowed architect with three sons (Greg, Peter, and Bobby), and his marriage to his second wife Carol, who herself has three daughters (Marcia, Jan, and Cindy). The show starred Robert Reed and Florence Henderson and ran from 1969 to 1974.
Vaughn will be co-developing and executive producing the new show alongside Raising Hope screenwriter, Mike Mariano, Lloyd Schwartz (the son of Brady creator Sherwood Schwartz), Victoria Vaughn and Peter Billingsley (Ralphie from A Christmas Story) through Vaughn’s Wild West Picture Show Productions.
Unlike the original series, this new Brady family will involve the ex-spouses- we’ll no longer have to deal with the unaddressed mystery ex-husbands like Carol Brady's little dilemma- along with a shared child amongst all of the others from the previous marriages and will showcase a more updated and evolved view of what a mixed family would act like, especially since it’s been four decades since the original series has been on air.
The Brady’s have been the subject of many spinoffs already, having reunions, musicals, as well as the ‘90s movie parodies that starred actress Shelley Long, and, with the recent surge of reboots like Hawaii Five-O and 90210 finding success, Vaughn’s new Brady series has the chance to do very well with television audiences.
