Netflix greenlits That '70s Show follow-up series That '90s Show with Kurtwood Smith, Debra Jo Rupp

That ’70s Show aired on Fox for eight seasons from 1998 to 2006
Netflix greenlits That '70s Show follow-up series That '90s Show with Kurtwood Smith, Debra Jo Rupp

Netflix has greenlit a follow up to the hit TV series That '70s Show. Titled That '90s Show, the series will be headlined by Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp, who will reprise their roles as Red Forman and Kitty Forman from the original.

That ’70s Show aired on Fox for eight seasons from 1998 to 2006. The show was headlined by Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis, Danny Masterson, Laura Wilmer Valderrama and Lisa Robin Kelly. It followed the lives of a group of six teenage friends living in fictional town called Point Place, Wisconsin, from May 17, 1976, to December 31, 1979. Rupp and Smith played Grace's character Eric's parents.

Set in Wisconsin in 1995, That ’90s Show will follow Leia Forman, daughter of Eric and Donna (Laura Prepon), who is visiting her grandparents for the summer and bonds with a new generation of Point Place kids under the watchful eye of Kitty and the stern glare of Red.

There is no news currently if other cast members from the original series, including Grace, Prepon and Ashton Kutcher, will make guest appearances in the new show.

Smith and Jo Rupp will also executive produce alongside its creators, That ’70s Show alum Gregg Mettler, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner, and their daughter Lindsay Turner. Mettler will also serve as showrunner. Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner also executive produce under the Carsey-Werner Company, which produced That ’70s Show

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