Casey Bloys On Reboots As ‘Sex and the City’ and ‘In Treatment’ Set Return & ‘True Blood’ Eyes New Chapter – Deadline

HBO Today announced that the new season of In treatment starring Uzo Aduba will debut in May. HBO Max recently announced Is that so, a revival of the HBO comedy series Sex and the City (without the original star Kim Cattrall). HBO is also developing a True Blood restart with Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and NOS4A2 creator Jami O’Brien. (This project is in its early stages and there are no current plans for the return of the original cast members.)

In a question and answer session during the HBO / HBO Max part of TCA, HBO and HBO Max content director Casey Bloys talked about bringing back popular HBO titles.

“Reboots are very written, but when you look at our TCA schedule, In treatment but you also have Generation”, He said, referring to programs for which HBO and HBO Max made virtual panels, including HBO’s In treatment restart and the new original series from HBO Max Generation. “It is something that I am aware of, restarting the material is something that we are experiencing throughout the industry. You have strength in that, you’re dealing with people’s nostalgia and emotional attachment to a show, but as with anything, I don’t want to do too many. I think there are original stories to tell and we don’t want to lose them, so it’s always a balancing act. “

THE Sex and the City revival drew a lot of attention because it featured three of the four friends at the center of the original series (Sex and the City without Samantha she was still tricked into Saturday Night Live.)

Bloys feels that the change is authentic. “It’s like in real life, the people you were friends with at 30 are not always the same when you’re 50. It reflects the different stages of life. “

The decision to place Is that so on HBO Max vs. HBO stems from the fact that two decades have passed since the original was on HBO. It has transcended to be an HBO series. It is broad and has long entered pop culture, which are the determining factors when Bloys and his team decide which programs should be for HBO and which should be for HBO Max.

Sex and the City it was one of two mega hits – and cultural phenomena – that ran on HBO at the same time. The other was The Sopranos.

With the previous film, THE Many Newark Saints, arriving, it would be HBO, which is taking the pre-route with the steamroller War of Thrones, consider making a Sopranos prequel series starring Michael, son of James Gandolfini, as the young Tony Soprano?

“I didn’t have any conversations,” said Bloys. “He’s a great actor, we had him The Deuce, and he is very good in the film, but there was no real conversation about turning that into anything. Let the movie out and let people have fun, but there was no real conversation about turning it into anything other than the movie. ”