Jessica Biel has some heavenly news to share.
Nearly 20 years after 7th Heaven ended, the actress behind the iconic Mary Camden, confirmed that she’s producing a reboot of the long-running hit series. And though Biel know there’s no greater feeling than the love of family, the new show won’t be an exact repeat of the original.
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“What we want to create, how we want to modernize it, is really the things that are happening for teenagers and families that have teenagers all the way down to the youngest child,” Biel explained on the Oct. 22 episode of Collider’s Ladies Night podcast, “technology-based issues, school stuff, bullying stuff, drugs, alcohol.”
“All of those things we want to address in a very real way, which is, I think, what the original kind of gently touched on,” she continued, “but we were very careful about what our audience wanted. We had a lot of limitations. We have less limitations now.”
Plus, Biel—who shares sons Silas, 11, and Phineas, 6, with husband Justin Timberlake—thinks a new version of the show could fill a void in the current television landscape.
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