You can’t have a Saved By The Bell reboot without Zack Morris, right? Well Bayside peeps, this is why Zack is back. It has been announced that actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar has closed a deal to reprise his role as Zack Morris on the upcoming reboot at NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock.
Gosselaar, who is currently appearing on ABC’s Mixed-ish, will return for at least three episodes of the reboot which also sees Mario Lopez returning as A.C. Slater and Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano. The reboot will have John Michael Higgins (Great News) as Bayside High’s new principal, while Josie Totah (Champions) will break new ground as Lexi.
The original Saved By the Bell ran four seasons on NBC from 1989-1992. The show starred Gosselaar as Zack Morris, the leader of a group that included A.C. Slater (Mario Lopez), Jessie Spano (Elizabeth Berkley), Kelly Kapowski (Tiffani Thiessen), “Screech” Powers (Dustin Diamond), and Lisa Turtle (Lark Voorhies). There was also a spinoff, Saved By the Bell: The College Years, which lasted one season from 1993-94.
The reboot will focus on a group of California low-income high school students that are transferred to Pacific Palisades’ wealthy Bayside High, following a program by California Governor Zack Morris. There is no official premiere date yet but the new Peacock streaming service is set to launch in April.
