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NBC’s reboot of The Munsters didn’t make it to air, but the network decided not to let the Bryan Singer-directed pilot go to waste. Here’s a peek at the hourlong episode from producer writer-producer Bryan Fuller that will air as a Halloween special leading into Grimm for Friday, October 26th:
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I’m sorry, this just looks appalling. In the What-were-they-thinking? derby it’s right up there with PINK LADY AND JEFF.
No way it’s in PLaJ territory. It’s better than that.
Totally agree. This looks god awful.
Singer is too talented to make knock-offs.
It was, unquestionably, the best pilot I’d read in a couple of years. Singer is talented enough to take a shoddy concept such as the Munsters and elevate it into a thoughtful, exhilarating experience. NBC flat out blew it.
I think it looks fantastic, very distinctive and unique. Really excited to watch it. The trailer looks so much better than the hacky premise would suggest.
Hopefully NBC give it the amount of promotion it deserves. If so, I can see the special doing well.
This looks pretty cool. I don’t see why NBC didn’t order this to series as a perfect lead-in for Grimn.
Can’t tell from this peek whether NBC was right to put on hold.
Fuller has a record of making niche shows appreciated by fans but not well understood by the suits at the studios and networks.
It’s awful and the reason it’s horrible and dreadful is because they totally screwed up the concept. They made the Munsters into real monsters who actually eat people they are monsters as the enemy of humanity. Completely wrong. The charm and appeal of the Munsters is that they might have looked like monsters but they were a normal lovable family who just wanted to fit in with the rest of society.
Fuller and Singer deserve their failure on this they earned that failure in a spectacularly horrendous and repellent way. They destroyed their own show with their egotistical and arrogant personalities. Good going guys. This is an epic fail and NBC was right to cut their losses on it.
Eddie Munster, you must have missed the part where it was a REIMAGINING of the original. Not a duplicate.
This looks interesting and I’ll be checking it out. I never thought it would make a great sustainable weekly series, but NBC shouldn’t completely give up on this idea, and perhaps they are contemplating some sort of limited-run deal…which all networks should be considering more of at this point.
yeah, eddie munster missed it. it was supposed to be a REIMAGINING of the original as a complete piece of shite. thanks for clearing it up for us all.
Wow, ThanksForYourInsight, I’m so glad you can see into the future and have already seen the entire show and are therefore qualified to speak about it. Please email me tomorrow’s lottery numbers, too.
I thnk this looks totally cool.
Another lame move by NBC…..
Maybe Jack Donaghy really exists
I think NBC is curious to see how the public will respond to this ‘special’ before making any final decision on taking it to series or not. They have the cast under contract and can quickly decide to greenlight if its successful.
It’s airing on a FRIDAY, which is working against it. If NBC really wanted to see the reaction, they would have aired in on a better night.
But then, does NBC have a better night?
It’s leading into NBC’s only actual hit, “Grimm”.
Though “Revolution” is getting good #’s for now. But since it’s a shaky premise @ best, it’ll go the way of “Heroes” by season’s end.
If that’s true, I’d expect Fuller to be tweeting his behind off, drumming up viewers.
I hope the special does get big Nielsens, if only because I’m curious to see what NBC does next. is this really market research or have they already decided against it and are just trying to get a little return on their investment?
This looks horrible. Bad casting. Bad characters. Bad premise.
Re-imagining the Munsters could have been fun. This, however, looks like a total fail.
Looks like loads of fun. Just like the original.
(The Munsters was never Shakespeare, folks. Loosen up.)
Seriously, Dead Like Me and Pushing Daisies are nothing LIKE good television and anyone who remembers Heroes well needs to recalibrate. The only thing worse than Tim Burton is a watered-down Tim Burton knock-off on network. There’s a ton of great, interesting television going on these days and none of it came from Bryan Fuller. He clearly has fans in the industry–why else are these failures unleashed on us with the such regularity? And these shows must be as cheap to make as they are cheap to look at or the networks would knock it off already. If Hannibal flops also, can we just call it a day with this garbage?
Really? “A ton of great, interesting tv”??! Why don’t you list those great new NETWORK shows and then go back to banging out that Great Expectations spec you’ve been feverishly working on. Or was it Sleepy Hollow? Or Beauty and the Beast? I forget.
Response to – “They destroyed their own show with their egotistical and arrogant personalities.” Dude… it’s doubtful you’ve ever met Bryan Fuller in person. He was a very friendly and down to earth guy when I spent time with him, and he’s one of the most creative television producers on the planet. If you don’t take risks like he does, you get “Must zzzzzzzzzzzzz tv”
this must’ve been the same 34 second teaser nbc/universal programming execs viewed just prior to pulling the plug…keen eye!…smart move!!
hasn’t o’connell finished law school @ SWULS yet?…he’s so hammy…he’ll need a day job on which to fall back after this piece of crap…
that sotelo tile work in the mad scientist’s lab’d look so good in my kitchen!!
I’m in
There goes the neighborhood.
I like that they are giving this a try. I like the thought that it’s more up to date and possibly more gruesome than the original. I hope it does well. Looking forward to another creepy good tv show! Yay i’m excited!