Stories of a Happiness remake comes from Deadline, which reports Big Talk Studios’ plans to bring the show back to life, albeit this time in a British setting. So far, they’ve gone to CBS Studios for the remake rights, with Simon Nye (Bad Men) to modify the text and display and run it.
How the Cheers remake will stack up to the original is unclear, and there are hurdles to jump before it can fully take off. But the idea that someone would even want to remake Cheers in the first place raises big questions about the state of television content and national broadcasting.