Greater than 40 years after the community’s first time on the plate, CBS is taking a second swing at a TV sequence primarily based on the seminal movie The Unhealthy Information Bears.
The 1976 film starred the good Walter Matthau as Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic pool cleaner/former minor league baseball pitcher who was is recruited to teach the titular youth baseball staff comprised of misfit gamers. The youth forged included Tatum O’Neal as wunderkind pitcher Amanda Wurlitzer and Jackie Earle Haley as dangerous boy Kelly Leak.
That OG Unhealthy Information Bears spawned two sequels, The Unhealthy Information Bears in Breaking Coaching (in 1977) and The Unhealthy Information Bears Go to Japan (1978), a two-season CBS sitcom led by Jack Warden, and a 2005 movie remake starring Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear and Marcia Homosexual Harden.
This time round, our sister website Deadline stories, black-ish government producer/author Corey Nickerson is creating a reboot through which a down-on-her-luck, divorced mother coaches a staff of misfits in a cutthroat Little League.
No, Maggie Lawson’s Again within the Sport was not renewed.
Nickerson, who’s exec-producing the potential sequence with Aaron Kaplan and Melanie Frankel, reportedly will weave in her personal private experiences teaching her son’s baseball staff.
