Mayim Bialik announces “Blossom” is dead after struggling to reboot teen show: 'We are powerless'
- - Mayim Bialik announces “Blossom” is dead after struggling to reboot teen show: 'We are powerless'
Raechal ShewfeltAugust 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Everett Collection Joey Lawrence and Mayim Bialik star on 'Blossom' in 1990
Blossom fans, try not to be gettin' all depressed, as the theme song says, but the family sitcom won't be back after all.
Mayim Bialik, the actress behind the quirky character known for her floppy hats, explained Monday on her Substack that a modern take on the series, which aired over five seasons, from 1990 to 1995, had been rejected by the studio.
Monica Schipper/Getty Images Mayim Bialik played Blossom Russo on 'Blossom'
"While it is possible no one wants a Blossom reboot, I'm pretty certain Disney got this one wrong," Bialik wrote of the NBC series that is owned by Disney, per TVLine. "The sun is gonna surely shine. Maybe not the way [creator Don Reo] 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."
EW has reached out to Disney.
Blossom was the story of a teenage girl making her way through life with single father Nick (Ted Wass), two big brothers, Joey (Joey Lawrence) and Anthony (Michael Stoyanov), and her best friend Six (Jenna von Oÿ). The Emmy-nominated series made Bialik, Lawrence, and von Oÿ fodder for teenage magazines.
Bialik, who went on to join the cast of TV hit The Big Bang Theory in 2010, had announced as long ago as March 2021 that she had been working with Reo to do a "limited reboot" but were having "trouble getting our network onboard."
By 2023, the actress said that the reboot was still on, but the show would return "not as a sitcom."
In her new Substack post, Bialik noted that Reo had written a "beautiful" script after her show ended in 2019, and Disney "seemed to love it." But the next time she had room for it on her schedule, following her stint on TV's Call Me Kat and Jeopardy, there had been changes in executives. A new Blossom was no longer wanted at all.
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"For no particular reason," Bialik wrote, "we were told 'no.' 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."
Bialik had been looking forward to returning to the character, which she wants to play "more than any other," she said.
Because plans to revisit the Russos had been scrapped, her "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 said.
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