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FLASHBACK FRENZYNetworks looking to old hits to bring in ratings

RUMORS RESUMED SWIRLING last week that Netflix was rebooting Full House. The video streamer was reportedly in talks with Warner Bros. for a 13-episode order (on top of another encore of the generation-ago Arrested Development).

Netflix isn’t the only company to tap the archives. ABC has a Muppets revamp in the works, with the series being led by Big Bang Theory’s Bill Prady and Anger Management’s Bob Kushell.

Craig T. Nelson is set to reprise his role as Coach’s Hayden Fox for NBC. The network has given the sit-com, billed as a sequel, a 13-episode order.

Sci-fi drama The X-Files will land back on Fox as a six-episode event series. David Duchovny and Gil-lian Anderson have both signed on to reprise their roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

Cable isn’t immune to the reboot craze either. Show-time last fall announced it was bringing back Twin Peaks. But the project stalled last week after news that cocreator David Lynch was leaving. Showtime said it hoped to get Lynch back on board. —Jessika Walsten

THEY SAID ITExecutive producers dished on their writing process at the Holly-wood Radio and Television Society’s “Hitmakers” Luncheon on April 8. Here are some highlights from the panel.

“There is nothing that could prepare me for what this journey was about. At first I bucked the system because I’m so used to going it alone....I think what I walked away with was a sense of camaraderie.”

—Lee Daniels, cocreator and executive producer of Empire, said of his jump from feature films to TV.

“It actually was a life- saving thought, this is for art, this is for something, I can save all of these moments.”

—Transparent creator and executive producer Jill Soloway, referring to when she realized that she needed to turn her parents’

story into a television show.

“My goal is to make something timeless if I can.”

—Noah Hawley, executive producer of Fargo, said of his goals for the second season of the FX series.

TRIBECA ‘SCREEN FESTIVAL’ TUNES IN THE TUBENYC event marks 9th venture with ESPN, sets Comedy Central, Netflix premieres AS THE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL has continued to grow over the past 13 years, Robert De Niro and the other founders of the event adopted “the power of film” as something of a mantra.

These days, though, the primacy of film as a medium is under scru-tiny as streaming services commis-sion features and indie directors and A-list stars find happy homes on the small screen. This year’s TFF, which runs April 15-26, will feature a surge of TV content, including premieres for Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer, Netflix’s first

docuseries, Chef’s Table, and a host of less-commercial Web and transmedia titles.

“We’re a screen festival,” Paula Wein-stein, executive VP of festival parent Tribeca Enterprises, told B&C. “There are so many ways to see a story right now.”

Through its partnership with ESPN, now in its ninth year, Tribeca has been tuning in TV. And cofounder Jane Rosenthal has TV shows on her producing résumé, along with films like Meet the Parents.

“Tribeca is audience-focused,” said Dan Silver, senior director of development at ESPN Films. The “arena atmosphere” at ESPN screenings is a key ingredi-ent, he added. “People tend to experience sports films by themselves or in smaller groups at home, so to see them play for audiences is crucial.”

This year’s ESPN films (not all of which will air on the network) include the Michael Strahan-produced Play It Forward, about future NFL Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez and his family, and Maravilla, about former middleweight boxing champion Sergio Martinez of Argentina. –Dade Hayes

For more about Tribeca and its ESPN Sports Film Festival, visit broadcastingcable.com/April13.

STATOF THEWEEK80.7 MILLIONLive video streams of March Madness tournament games on the NCAA March Madness Live app.

“Tom Towles, Geoffrey Lewis

& James Best are having a beer together

in Beloved Character Actor Heaven right now.”

@pattonoswalt, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, tweeted April 8 in reference to the death of Dukes of Hazzard star James Best at 88.

Oswalt

Maravilla

Schumer

TYRA BANKS TAPPED AS HOST OF DAYTIME EMMYSKudosfest to air April 26 on Pop

TYRA BANKS is set to host the 42nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.

The daytime celebra-tion is making its return to linear TV after a year away, airing live April 26 at 8 p.m. ET on Pop.

Two-time Daytime Emmy-winner Banks will make her daytime return in the fall on the syndicated talk show The F.A.B. Life.

This year’s nominations are led by CBS with 62. PBS came in second with 50, followed by ABC and NBC with 35 and 20 noms, respectively.

On the program side, ABC’s General Hospital landed on top with 28 nods. CBS’ The Young and the Restless (25) and The Bold and the Beautiful (19) as well as NBC’s Days of Our Lives (16) and PBS’ Sesame Street (13) rounded out the top five. —JW

The classic TV series revival parade includes (clockwise from above) The X-Files (from Fox),

Full House (Netflix) and The Muppets (ABC).

Daytime Emmys host Tyra Banksis coming back to the daypart

this fall, hosting The F.A.B. Life.

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