Creator Linda Bloodworth Thomason will return to pen the script for the Disney-owned broadcaster.

Designing Ladies folk simply took a immense step closer to its TV return.

Twenty-5 years after wrapping its seven-season bustle, ABC has handed out a script commitment to what’s being billed as a “sequel” to the CBS comedy from fashioned sequence creator Linda Bloodworth Thomason and executive producer Harry Thomason.

The fresh Designing Ladies folk — which is a multicamera comedy cherish its predecessor — will note the following technology of Sugarbakers with a gash of fresh, younger, female designers at an Atlanta interior assemble agency. The fresh clutch will easy bear the the same razor-curious dialogue and potential to lower via the political, cultural and social factions that now not ceaselessly agree on the rest. Bloodworth Thomason will pen the script and exec invent alongside her husband, Thomason.

The mission, which has been within the works for months with the ABC deal being worked out over the final few weeks, comes from the the same studio that produced the fashioned in Sony Photography Tv. Sources direct fashioned castmembers will on occasion dwell by must the fresh clutch drag to sequence.

“I’m very wrathful to be working with ABC. And Sony has repeatedly been a giant partner for Designing Ladies folk. On the total, I’m now not a fan of reboots nonetheless Designing Ladies folk does appear to bear the simply fengshui for all that’s occurring simply now. We may additionally undoubtedly bear some fun,” Bloodworth Thomason instantaneous The Hollywood Reporter a day after she penned a blistering guest column by which she printed that aged CBS CEO Leslie Moonves saved her exhibits off the air for seven years.

Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, Annie Potts, Jean Natty and Meshach Taylor starred on the fashioned multicamera comedy, which took on subjects in conjunction with ladies folk’s rights, domestic abuse, homophobia and racism all the scheme in which via its bustle from 1986-1993. A season two episode exploring AIDS prejudice — impressed by Bloodworth Thomason, whose mother died from the disease — earned two Emmy nominations. Designing Ladies folk used to be nominated multiple instances for the edifying comedy Emmy nonetheless by no scheme took dwelling the trophy within the class. Burke earned two lead actress noms, and Taylor used to be also nominated.

Toward the discontinuance of its bustle, the sequence underwent some most well-known casting changes. Julia Duffy and Jan Hooks changed Burke and Natty in season six. (Duffy used to be now not introduced support for the seventh and closing season and used to be changed by Judith Ivey.)

Carter passed away in 2010; Potts is a series traditional on CBS’ The Large Bang Belief prequel Young Sheldon; Taylor died in 2014; Natty is a series traditional on FX’s Noah Hawley Wonder drama Legion; and Burke, who’s married to This Is Us favourite Gerald McRaney, final acted on TV in a 2009 episode of Lifetime’s Plunge Ineffective Diva.

The Designing Ladies folk sequel arrives as reboots continue to dwell in excessive quiz as broadcast, cable and streaming platforms gaze confirmed IP in a talk in self belief to lower via a cluttered panorama that’s expected to high 500 scripted originals this twelve months. Key to them is having the fashioned producers intelligent — which Designing Ladies folk has with Bloodworth Thomason and Sony, whose Columbia Photography used to be the studio at the aid of the fashioned.

Designing Ladies folk is of particular passion as broadcasters peek to reboot hit comedies that wait on talk to the say of the politically divided country. For its share, ABC discovered mountainous scores success with Roseanne, which represents the working class in center The United States; CBS will open its fresh Murphy Brown with megastar Candice Bergen on Sept. 27; and NBC has renewed its Will & Grace revival via 2020.

Additionally it is miles rate noting that Potts acknowledged the climate is barely for a Designing Ladies folk reboot. “I would savor that,” she instantaneous EW. “I don’t know after I’d score the time for it, nonetheless I negate that they are going to additionally simply employ a expose cherish Designing Ladies folk — feisty dapper ladies folk that didn’t clutch any B.S. from somebody. Every Monday evening used to be a #MeToo 2d for us, and we were speaking about it; we were very political. I’m sad that there’s now not this form of solid affirm, I don’t negate, in any singular expose. No one is doing what we did then. So yeah, if [creator Linda Bloodworth Thomason] desired to jot down six episodes and enact it in my hiatus, I could be there in a minute.”

Bloodworth Thomason is repped by Innovative Artists and Hansen Jacobson.