Bryan Fuller isn’t giving up on Mockingbird Lane. Now that NBC plans to air the pilot as a special later this month, it appeared that the network had thrown in the towel on its Munsters redux. But Fuller—who’s in Canada overseeing NBC’s upcoming take on Hannibal—tells TV Guide Magazine that he remains bullish on Mockingbird, and thinks Halloween is a perfect time to get viewers on board.
“Such a different show merits a different way of getting it out to the audience,” he says. “There’s been tremendous support to get it out there and get people to see it, and have them make up their own minds,” he says.
Fuller’s modern take on The Munsters—starring Jerry O’Connell and Portia de Rossi as Herman and Lily Munster, and Eddie Izzard as Grandpa—wasn’t ordered to series but instead will air as a one-hour special on Oct. 26 at 8/7c. That could be the end of the long-percolating project, which had been in the works for years…
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