Trendy Household is again… however don’t count on a reboot.
4 of the unique solid members of the ABC sitcom are returning to their roles, starring in a brand new business for WhatsApp, the chat platform owned by Meta.
The celebrities, Julie Bowen (Claire Dunphy), Ty Burrell (Phil Dunphy), Eric Stonestreet (Cameron Tucker), and Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Mitchell Pritchett), are reprising their roles for the spot, which pokes enjoyable at group chats during which some members have an iPhone and a blue bubble, and others have an Android telephone with a dreaded inexperienced bubble.
The platform is pitching itself as an answer to that “divide,” utilizing the ABC sitcom as a hook.
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Ferguson sparked on-line rumors of a Trendy Household reboot when he shared a photograph from the set of the sitcom, captioning the photograph “Haven’t seen this view shortly.” He declined to share extra when requested about it on The Discuss a couple of weeks later.
Commercials, in fact, have q lengthy historical past of reviving traditional TV reveals and characters from campaigns. Only a few weeks in the past Pop-Tarts introduced again the Seinfeld characters Jackie Chiles (Phil Morris) and The Soup Nazi (Larry Thomas) for a business that additionally helped promoted Jerry Seinfeld’s new Netflix film concerning the breakfast deal with.
Final yr Walmart introduced again a lot of the unique solid of Imply Women for a sequence of business spots.
And this yr’s Tremendous Bowl delivered a number of adverts that includes actors from the present Fits.
So, no, there’s no Trendy Household reboot within the works (that we all know of), however followers can take pleasure in eventually 30 seconds of latest materials, even whether it is attempting to promote you on a chat platform.