Original “Designing Women” star Annie Potts would totally be on board for a reboot of the 1980s sitcom.
“I’d love that,” the actress tells Entertainment Weekly. “I don’t know when I’d find the time for it, but I think that they could use a show like ‘Designing Women’ – feisty smart women that didn’t take any B.S. from anybody.”
The Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated series, which originally aired on CBS between 1986 and 1993, focused on four strong women played by Potts, Delta Burke, Jean Smart and the late Dixie Carter along with one man, Meshach Taylor, who worked at an interior design firm in Georgia. Tackling political and social issues including women’s rights, sexism, spousal abuse, homophobia, AIDS discrimination and racism, “Designing Women” would be right at home amid the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, according to Potts, 65.
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“Every Monday night was a #MeToo moment for us, and we were talking about it; we were very political,” says Potts, who currently stars on “The Big Bang Theory” spin-off “Young Sheldon.” “I’m sad that there’s not such a strong voice, I don’t think, in any singular show. Nobody is doing what we did then.”
In 2003, Potts and the rest of the original cast and guest stars reunited for a special “The Designing Women Reunion” to mark 10 years since the show’s finale and reminisce about the series.
While there are currently no plans to bring “Designing Women” back, Potts would be up for a modern reboot of the series, following in the footsteps of Global‘s “Will & Grace“, and recent revivals of “MacGyver“,”Hawaii: Five-0” and “Roseanne”.
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“If [creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason] wanted to write six episodes and do it in my hiatus, I would be there in a minute,” Potts adds.
