How’s the old expression go? Get yourself a partner who looks at you the way Universal looks at trying to get money out of its long-moribund franchise in the 21st century? We’ll confess we’re not entirely sure what the studio sees in the prospect of new projects set in a universe where the basic joke is “What if a Frankenstein and a Vampirella got together and had a Wolfman?” but it hasn’t stopped Universal from trying, again and again—with that the Universal Studio Group has reportedly put a new TV reboot into early development. (Alongside a TV show based off of 1976's . Big day for fans.
) The title of the prospective project, , harkens back to the address the live out their low-rent lives in—but also draws immediate comparisons to , Bryan Fuller’s past effort to make a non-embarrassing show in the 2010s. That series, which aired its pilot as a Halloween special on NBC in 2012, starred Jerry O’Connell, Portia de Rossi, and Eddie Izzard, and was ultimately dropped like a load of spooky bricks by the network after they realized they didn’t actually want to be in the “slightly dramatic hour-long sitcom about monsters” business. The logline for this new series, meanwhile—which was co-developed by James Wan, Lindsey Anderson Beer, and Ingrid Bisu—promises that it “lives and breathes within the Universal Monsterverse,” and, seriously, somebody needs to take that particular brand away from Universal, before they do themselves even more mischief tha.
