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Reports: Netflix to revive ‘Gilmore Girls’

WASHINGTON 鈥 鈥淕ilmore Girls鈥 is said to be headed back to television.

The series which ran from 2000 to 2006 on The WB and The CW is returning as a sequence of four 90-minute films on Netflix, according to various media reports.

that 鈥淕ilmore Girls鈥 would join 鈥淎rrested Development,鈥 鈥淔ull House鈥 and 鈥淲et Hot American Summer鈥 as revivals of beloved TV series and movies on the Internet streaming service. Neither Warner Bros. nor Netflix has confirmed the reports.

Word has it that the new 鈥渟eason鈥 of four movies will be written by series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, who wasn鈥檛 part of the original series鈥 final season. All the major cast members, including Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Kelly Bishop and Scott Patterson, are said to be signed up. No word on whether Melissa McCarthy will be able to reprise her role.

TVLine鈥檚 Michael Ausiello writes that Sherman-Palladino never closed the door on a revival: In 2009, she told him, 鈥淭he beauty of聽Gilmore, and the beauty of family-relationship shows, is you never really run out of story.鈥 She also reportedly had even written a final episode, teasing about the four words with which she planned to end the story.

Rick Massimo

Rick Massimo came to 草莓传媒, and to Washington, in 2013 after having lived in Providence, R.I., since he was a child.聽He's the author of "A Walking Tour of the Georgetown Set" and "I Got a Song: A History of the Newport Folk Festival."

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