Sutton Foster’s Youthful introduced laughs to TV Land and past for seven seasons between 2015 – 2021, however even critically-acclaimed reveals on cable networks usually do not attain massive audiences. In actual fact, even when the episodes grew to become out there streaming with a Hulu subscription and Paramount+ subscription, droves of latest followers did not begin streaming. Now, it appears that evidently Youthful simply wanted the appropriate streamer! The seven seasons arriving on Netflix have been a giant hit, and now government producer Darren Star is weighing in on whether or not there is a future for Youthful within the 2025 TV schedule or past.
The comedy starring Broadway icon Sutton Foster (who most just lately has been making headlines tied to Hugh Jackman) arrived on Netflix again in January 2025 within the U.S., and Deadline studies that knowledge launched by the analytics platform Luminate reveals that Youthful occupied seven of Netflix’s U.S. Prime 10 spots from January – Might of this yr. The success on the streamer was evidently what Darren Star had in thoughts even whereas the comedy was nonetheless in manufacturing, saying to the outlet that “it was made to be bingeable” and “each episode form of had a cliffhanger.”
So, might Youthful‘s success on Netflix translate to extra episodes, like what occurred with Manifest and Lucifer, if sufficient individuals preserve watching with a Netflix subscription? That continues to be to be seen, however Star’s feedback on the thought of a revival counsel that every one followers want is for the celebs to all align. The chief producer stated:
I might do some form of revival. It’s one thing I might be very excited to pursue, and simply in these conversations I’ve had with the forged, it’s one thing they might be excited to do if the timing was proper for everybody. I’ve to say, the forged had probably the most superb chemistry with one another, and it was an actual, pleasant expertise for all of us to make that present collectively.
Along with Sutton Foster, Youthful starred Debi Mazar, Nico Tortorella, Hilary Duff, Miriam Shor, and Peter Hermann, and I do know I would wish to see Hilary Duff again on TV after How I Met Your Father‘s too-soon cancellation. The present that began with a single mother (Foster) in her 40s pretending to be 26 to attempt to land a job in publishing developed through the years, ending with Liza in a brand new place however an undetermined future. In line with Darren Star, that bodes nicely for Youthful having a future. He instructed the outlet:
It left it open ended, it wasn’t a definitive alternative, however there’s positively a full circle feeling to it. I believe that she’s now working the corporate; it’s nonetheless his firm, and she or he’s working it. So I do assume that there’s quite a lot of story; there’s a brand new chapter for these characters.
Darren Star is not any stranger to hit reveals on Netflix, as he additionally created the very profitable however often divisive Emily in Paris. Elsewhere, he additionally created Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, Intercourse and the Metropolis, spinoff And Simply Like That…, and Uncoupled. I for one discover it endearing that Youthful nonetheless appears to have such a particular place in his coronary heart, contemplating the success of Emily in Paris and And Simply Like That… as two present ongoing sequence. Might there actually be a future for the previous TV Land comedy?
There are quite a lot of stars that should align if the aim can be to carry the total forged again collectively for a reunion, and Darren Star reacted to the pitch of Older because the title for a followup by saying “I believe that’s what we’d need to name it at this level.” For now, followers can simply preserve revisiting the seven seasons of Youthful as they stream on Netflix, with fingers crossed for Sutton Foster and Co. to doubtlessly reprise their roles not less than yet one more time.