A few months ago, we reported that the beloved sitcom “Mad About You” was returning to television twenty years after it ended. Now, stars Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser are opening up about the return of the popular show.
“We are so excited to finally be doing this and thrilled to have Peter Tolan as our fearless captain,” they said in a statement. “We promise you the same funny and heartwarming show — as soon as we can remember what’s funny about being older. It’s going to be great!”
“It was kind of pinch ourselves kind of joy,” Reiser said at The Paley Center For Media’s 2019 PaleyFest Fall TV Previews in Beverly Hills. “It was just like a really warm, wonderful feeling that here we are and we’re all aware of like how lucky we are to all be alive, healthy, doing this — playing in a show that we love, that we all had seven great years on.”
Reiser went on to compare returning to the show to coming back for the second year of college.
“Like I already had good roommates, I like everything and I can’t wait to go back,” Reiser said.
“We were also all just getting a kick out of each other. Like hearing Richard Kind deliver his lines that, you know, he’s going to hit out of the park … so it was great. I keep telling people, it’s like getting together with old friends that you haven’t seen. There’s no awkwardness,” Reiser said. “You hit the ground running, and that’s how it felt with this show.”
Hunt said that while she was excited about the show coming back, she was also nervous.
“I was excited because we’ve been working for a long time to get this little 27 minutes of TV together,” she said. “I feel so grateful to have Paul as a partner because we have a very strange, like-minded way of looking at making this. So I was excited.”
“Last night, we shot the first one. And right before, I’d say starting about an hour and a half before we started, I was good nervous,” Hunt confessed. “But that’s what rehearsals are for, to sort of see you through when you’re nervous.”
Hunt was then asked what it’s like to work with Reiser as her onscreen husband.
“We used to make fun of that word, ‘chemistry,'” Hunt said. “We have must have similar tastes. We must have a similar wish to be kind to each other and say ‘I’m sorry,’ when we aren’t. And we must have a similar interest in a show about love and have a similar wish to be funny, make people laugh.”
“Mad About You” originally aired from 1992-1997, and it won numerous Emmy Awards and Golden Globes during it’s run. The reboot of the show is set to premiere on November 20.
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