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Helen Hunt revealed that she originally refused to consider a Mad About You reboot. The actress who co-starred with Paul Reiser on the NBC sitcom from 1992 to 1999, told Collider<\/a>\u00a0in a new interview that when she was approached about a revival of the series, she turned the idea down flat.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were 100 percent sure we would never do a reboot,\u201d Hunt, 62, told the outlet. \u201cIt seemed like a really cheesy thing to do, and we\u2019d answered everything, and we looked down on them.”<\/p>\n Hunt admitted that when she saw the Will & Grace revival in 2017, she changed her tune. \u201cI was like, it\u2019s really good and it\u2019s really funny. Are we maybe stupid and should think about it?\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n Twenty years after Mad About You ended its original seven-season run, Hunt and Reiser reprised their roles as New York City couple Jamie and Paul Buchman for a 12-episode revival on Spectrum Originals. The limited series featured the couple as empty nesters after their daughter Mabel (Abby Quinn) went to college. Hunt told Collider that the revival mirrored what she and Reiser were going through in real life.<\/p>\n \u201cMy daughter was getting ready to go to college, and his son was getting ready to go to college, and we went, ‘Oh, it could be about empty nests,’\u201d she said. \u201cWhen we realized, ‘Oh, empty nests would be a really fun thing to watch these two pinheads go through,’ we started getting excited.\u201d<\/p>\n When Mad About You ended its original run in 1999, the Buchmans\u2019 toddler daughter Mabel was suddenly 23 years old. The series finale featured a flash forward of the adult Mabel (Janeane Garofalo) as she described the family’s next 20 years via flashbacks.<\/p>\n Reiser previously revealed that the flash-forward finale was intended to wrap up the characters\u2019 storylines for good, so there would be no need to ever go back to the series.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the things we did deliberately in the finale was that we jumped ahead in the future. We saw where they went,\u201d Reiser told Variety<\/a> in 2016. \u201cPart of why we did that was to avoid the temptation of going back\u2026When you watch a reunion (show), all you do is say, \u2018Wow, do they look older.\u2019”<\/p>\n\u2018Mad About You\u2019 Originally Ended With the Intention That There Would Never Be a Reboot<\/h2>\n