This week, ABC (US)’s ‘Cast From The Past’ stunt is reuniting a whole bunch of ‘classic’ casts. This basically means various ABC shows are reuniting the casts of various TV shows and movies, some famous, some, erm , not so famous.
The list of reunions is long – and sometimes a little confusing for UK viewers, who may not have heard of half of them – but here’s TMINE’s potted guide to help you, complete with videos.
Some of them seem pretty kosher to me. black-ishreunites star Tracee Ellis Ross with her co-stars from Girlfriends. Similarly, The Conners reunites Blues Brothers 2000 stars John Goodman and Dan Aykroyd. And sure, no one on The Goldbergs was ever in Cheers, but getting four members of the cast of Cheers together still counts, particularly for an 80s-obsessed TV show that does entire episodes dedicated to Highlander.
The big mystery is how Ken Jeong showing up on Fresh off the Boat to be reunited with Constance Wu qualifies as “cast from the past”, given Crazy Rich Asians came out last year.
Then we get to the “inside baseball” style reunions. Getting two Charmed stars together is fine… but on Grey’s Anatomy? Because two of the producers used to write for Charmed?
Or Robert Sean Leonard on The Good Doctor because David Shore created House as well?
And then we have Adrien Brody and Leighton Meester’s reunion on Single Parents. They’re married. FFS.
Anyway, rundown and clips after the jump.
The schedule
Monday, October 7
The Good Doctor
Tuesday, October 8
The Conners
Bless This Mess
Black-ish
Wednesday, October 9
The Goldbergs
Single Parents
Thursday, October 10
Grey’s Anatomy
A Million Little Things
Friday, October 11
American Housewife
Fresh Off The Boat
Sunday, October 13
The Rookie
The shows
black-ish (reunion: Girlfriends)
Golden Brooks, Jill Marie Jones and Persia White reunite with Tracee Ellis Ross
The Rookie (reunion: Castle)
Seamus Dever and Jon Huertas reunite with Nathan Fillion
The Goldbergs (reunion: Cheers)
Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger and George Wendt reunite
The Good Doctor (reunion: House)
Robert Sean Leonard reunites with House executive producer David Shore
Fresh Off The Boat (reunion: Crazy Rich Asians)
Ken Jeong reunites with Constance Wu. I’m pretty sure they were only together last year
Bless This Mess (reunion: Wet Hot American Summer)
Michael Ian Black reunites with Lake Bell
A Million Little Things (reunion: Think Like A Man)
Jerry Ferrara reunites with Romany Malco
American Housewife (reunion: The Drew Carey Show)
Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles and Kathy Kinney reunite with Diedrich Bader
Single Parents (reunion: Life Partners, The Oranges)
Adam Brody reunites with Leighton Meester. He’s her husband. I’m sure it’s not the first time.
Grey’s Anatomy (reunion: Charmed)
Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs reunite with executive producers Krista Vernoff and Andy Reaser, who were writers on Charmed
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
