Film & TV / NewsFilm & TV / NewsA Saved by the Bell sequel is on the way... with the same actorsAC Slater and Zack Morris are back, and they’re old, and they’re parentsShareLink copied ✔️September 19, 2019September 19, 2019TextGünseli Yalcinkaya Get your hairspray cans at the ready, because high school sitcom, Saved by the Bell, is returning to our screens with a sequel. Mario Lopes and Elizabeth Berkley are reprising their roles as AC Slater and Jessie Spano from the original show, which ran on NBC between 1989 and 1993. Set for release April next year on NBCUniversal’s streaming platform, Peacock, the straight-to-series show will be directed by Great News creator Tracey Wigfield, and co-produced and written by original series creators Peter Engel and Franco Bario. It will follow Slater and Spano as parents of students at the show’s Bayside High, which has recently gained a number of students from low-income high schools – a move implemented by California governor Zack Morris (played by Mark-Paul Gosselaar). “The influx of new students gives the overprivileged Bayside kids a much-needed and hilarious dose of reality,” reads a synopsis on the Hollywood Reporter. The reboot marks the 30th anniversary since the show first graced TVs back in 1989. The success of the original show, about a group of high school students navigating the world of dating, exams, breakups, and drugs, became a massive hit, inspiring two spinoffs, Saved by the Bell: The College Years and Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and a two further TV films. In the meantime, watch the original trailer below, and also read our piece on the unbearable crisis of originality that is besieging film and television. Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREDazed x MUBI Cinema Club’s season finale: Father Mother Sister Brother6LILITH6: Inside the witchy femme mall cult of Forbidden FruitsOnMeet the creatives turning up the heat in Lagos with Burna Boy and OnDJ Ahmet, a coming-of-ager about an EDM-obsessed teen sheep farmerWho is Takashi Miike? An intro to Japanese cinema’s cult provocateurThe Good Boy is a sick, twisted nightmare about delinquent teensArco, a striking, soul-stirring sci-fi about lonely kids in 2075Bill Skarsgård and Gus Van Sant on their scrappy thriller Dead Man’s WireScarlet: Anime legend Mamoru Hosoda’s trippy new take on Hamlet7 unmissable films from South by Southwest 2026 Why fans are turning against Timothée ChalametOscars 2026: The biggest snubs from this year’s nominationsEscape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy