Who’s the Boss? Revival: EP Mike Royce Offers Update on Freevee Sequel

Matt Webb Mitovich
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Who’s the boss? The question at this point is more if and when the Who’s the Boss? revival will get a green light.

The original Who’s the Boss? family sitcom debuted on ABC in 1984 and starred Tony Danza as Tony Micelli, a former ball player who took a job working as a housekeeper for businesswoman Angela (Judith Light), moving into her Connecticut home along with his daughter Samantha (Alyssa Milano).

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The prospective follow-up — penned by One Day at a Time executive producer Mike Royce and ODAAT writer Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz, and in development at Freevee since June 2022 — takes place 30 years later, with Samantha now a single mother and living in the same house from the original series. Danza’s Tony would enter the mix “to take care of my children,” Milano shared a year ago, “because I get a job that makes me travel a lot.”

EP Mike Royce, as a guest on the latest episode of sister site THR’s TV’s Top 5 podcast, was asked what he has heard about the revival’s status, and he said, “I have heard that we’re gonna hear. That’s been the case for a while.”

Ahead of the months-long writers strike that began in May, Royce & Co. had turned in a pilot, a script for a second episode, and a bible “for a show that you can say in a sentence,” he quipped. At this point, with the WGA strike in the rear view mirror but the holiday season now upon us, “I’m assuming after the new year, at this point, we’ll learn the fate of [the revival],” he said. “Everything is handed in, so we’re just awaiting a decision.”

On Monday, Danza appeared on The View as part of Taxi‘s 45th anniversary reunion, where he chimed in about the status of the potential revival. “It’s been up in the ether for so long. I’m hoping it happens now!,” he told the hosts. “At some point you’re like, ‘Yeah, let’s do it!,’ so I’m just waiting to hear like everybody else.”

Milano at the time of the November 2022 interview referenced above had seen at least one script which she said was “really funny.”

“I was very skeptical about this,” Milano admitted. “And then I spoke to Tony [Danza]… and I got kind of excited.”

The involvement of original series co-star Judith Light, to any degree, remains TBD, though Milano ventured last year, “I’m sure she will [return].”

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