Blossom Reboot Plans Have Been Cancelled, Mayim Bialik Reveals: 'Disney Got This One Wrong'

Don't know about the future, that's anybody's guess — but one thing we do know is that the future won't include a reboot of the iconic NBC sitcom Blossom anytime soon.

Mayim Bialik, who played the titular teen from 1991 to 1995, broke the news via her Substack on Monday, confirming that all plans for a proposed reboot have been halted, if not totally crushed.

According to Bialik, she and Blossom creator Don Reo discussed revisiting the series shortly after The Big Bang Theory ended in 2019. Reo quickly whipped up a script that brought everyone into the modern world, and as Bialik recalls, "He found our characters exactly where many of us find ourselves — funny, lost, wandering, meandering, and torn. The script is beautiful."

Life got in the way for Bialik (three seasons of starring in Call Me Kat and two seasons as co-host of Jeopardy!), but she and Reo eventually pitched their updated Blossom to Disney, which owns the property, and they "seemed" to love it. "We felt certain this was going forward," she writes.

Unfortunately, following multiple mergers within the entertainment industry, new executives were put in charge of developing such things, and Bialik "was told the project was no longer able to be produced." She and Reo met with the new executives, essentially delivering the same pitch that sold the show a year earlier, but the answer was very different this time.

"For no particular reason, we were told 'no,'" Bialik says. "We asked for the rights so that we could let the market decide if audiences might want to see these characters all these years later. We were told Disney reserves the rights in case they ever want to do a reboot of Blossom. The reboot we all wanted to do was now, with Don's script. We will likely never know ... why they would not let us bring these beautiful stories to people who love 90s nostalgia and who have a special place in their hearts for Blossom."

But is this really the end? Bialik hopes not.

"I hope there will be more to this story someday," she writes. "But for now, the Gd's honest truth is this project is the role I want to play more than any other. Since this all fell apart, my desire to continue to pursue on-camera roles has waned. The constant changing of guards in our industry, the mergers, the insincerity and the increasingly extended periods of time it takes to get answers or contracts completed... It's not the industry Don and I grew up in, and Blossom felt like my last attempt to try and assert myself as an actress."

Bialik concludes: "While it is possible no one wants a Blossom reboot, I'm pretty certain Disney got this one wrong. The sun is gonna surely shine. Maybe not the way Don and I intended, but this door closed. While we didn't want it to, we are powerless over every aspect of it except what we know to be true: we loved this possibility with all that we have and we are so so sorry we couldn't get it to happen."

In addition to Bialik, Blossom also starred Joey Lawrence, Michael Stoyanov, Jenna von Oÿ, David Lascher, Portia Dawson, Barnard Hughes, Finola Hughes, Courtney Chase and Ted Wass.