{"id":2243182,"date":"2026-01-21T02:06:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2243182"},"modified":"2026-01-21T02:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:06:51","slug":"jerry-oconnells-forgotten-munsters-reboot-was-one-of-tvs-biggest-swing-and-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jerry-oconnells-forgotten-munsters-reboot-was-one-of-tvs-biggest-swing-and-misses\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry O&#8217;Connell&#8217;s Forgotten Munsters Reboot Was One Of TV&#8217;s Biggest Swing And Misses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">&#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057773\/\">The Munsters<\/a>&#8221; is one of the best shows of the 1960s, but is it ripe for contemporary reboots? It certainly wasn&#8217;t in 2012, as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0298188\/\">Bryan Fuller<\/a>&#8216;s attempt to bring America&#8217;s First Family of Fright back from the dead didn&#8217;t exactly go according to plan. Enter &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2130271\/\">Mockingbird Lane<\/a>,&#8221; a pilot <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0847663\/\">NBC<\/a> decided wasn&#8217;t ghoul enough for school.<\/p>\n<p>Named after the street where the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8968760\/\">Munster<\/a> family lives, &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2130271\/\">Mockingbird Lane<\/a>&#8221; was a darkly humorous update of the &#8217;60s sitcom. Starring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005278\/\">Jerry O&#8217;Connell<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3303074\/\">Mason Cook<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0412850\/\">Eddie Izzard<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005577\/\">Portia de Rossi<\/a>, the pilot mostly focused on Eddie Munster (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2631089\/\">Cook<\/a>) as he enters puberty and realizes he&#8217;s a werewolf.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Munsters&#8221; is one of the best shows of the 1960s, but is it ripe for contemporary reboots? It certainly wasn&#8217;t in 2012, as Bryan Fuller&#8216;s attempt to bring America&#8217;s First Family of Fright back from the dead didn&#8217;t exactly go according to plan. Enter &#8220;Mockingbird Lane,&#8221; a pilot NBC decided wasn&#8217;t ghoul enough for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2243183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2243182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jerry-OConnells-Forgotten-Munsters-Reboot-Was-One-Of-TVs-Biggest.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243184,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243182\/revisions\/2243184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2243183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}