The Game reboot won’t be hitting the field any time soon. The planned reboot of the popular series that ran for three seasons on The CW and six seasons on BET, will not be moving forward.
The one-hour followup series to the 2006 half-hour comedy from the original series’ creator Mara Brock Akil and American Soul co-creator Devon Greggory, was penned by the original creators and a pilot script was sent to The CW for approval. Based solely on the script, The CW brass made the decision not to move forward with the CBS TV Studios-produced project in its current form but were open to redeveloping it with Akil. According to reports, after consideration, Akil declined the redevelopment offer as she and Greggory had executed her vision of what the next chapter of The Game should look like.
The new version of The Game was to have a new Baltimore setting and the idea was for some of the original cast members to come back as the show’s out-of-touch old-timers who are determined to help a bunch of knucklehead new-schoolers navigate the ruthless game of football on and off the field. The idea was for the series to be a nice companion piece with All-American, also a football-themed show, but the idea just didn’t come together for The CW in its current form.
The Game was a spinoff from Akil’s long-running UPN comedy series Girlfriends and ran on the CW for three seasons before being canceled when the network got out of the half-hour comedy business. The show was later resurrected by BET where it aired for six more seasons which upped its popularity with its target audience. The series starred Hosea Chanchez, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Coby Bell, Pooch Hall, Tia Mowry-Hardrict, Brittany Daniel, Jay Ellis, & Brady Norwood.
