If you miss the slapstick comedy and lewd humour of Three’s Company, don’t worry because you may be seeing it resuscitated sooner than you think.
How I Met Your Mother executive producer Greg Malins is working on reviving the hit series but giving it a modern spin. A lot more modern.
The new series will take place in Washington D.C. and the three people living together this time around, two guys and a girl, are all newly elected members of Congress.
Huh?
“I’ve always been a political guy, following all that stuff, and I always knew I wanted to do a show there,” Malins told Variety. “But I hadn’t found the way in, the thing that would give me that show. But once I discovered that members of Congress often live together, I said, ‘There's your show right there.’”
Seems like.
Malins is teaming up with Arianna Huffington and Huffington Post founding editor Roy Sekoff for Freshmen.
Huffington and Sekoff are working on web tie-ins to the project, such as putting together campaign sites for the show’s characters, coinciding with next year’s mid-term elections.
“The stories are endless,” Malins said of the D.C. setting. “They’re all crazy. These characters will write themselves.”
Malins is the show runner on How I Met Your Mother and served as executive producer on Friends and Will & Grace. He also has a development deal with Fox for a dark comedy.
Aside from being a political pundit, Huffington is also involved in one of this fall’s newest comedies. She voices Arianna, the bear on The Cleveland Show.
The original Three’s Company ran on ABC from 1977 to 1984, and was also a remake of the British comedy Man About the House.
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