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Problem Child TV Rebooted Headed To NBC

Here is news of another film being rebooted into a Television show. NBC is looking for a problem child . The network has handed out a script commitment for a remake of 1990 feature film Problem Child , The Hollywood Reporter has learned. From writer Scot Armstrong (The Hangover II, Old School), the half-hour single-camera comedy is based on the John Ritter pic of the same name and centers on every parent's worst nightmare: a problem child. Peter Traugott and Rachel Kaplan will executive produce alongside Armstrong via their Universal Television-based TBD Productions. The original movie starred Ritter and Amy Yasbeck as a couple who adopt problem child Junior (played by Michael Oliver), a prankster who previously had been adopted and brought back to the orphanage 30 times. Gilbert Gottfried and Michael Richards co-starred in the Universal Pictures feature that was written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski and produced by Imagine Entertainment's Robert Simonds, Ro...