A basic synopsis has also been revealed. The new version of The Honeymooners is a “bold, female-driven reboot of the iconic working-class comedy centered around new wife Ruth and her husband Alex who are determined to have a marriage where they are true equals in every way. But what happens when a marriage has two heads of the household? Are they co-heads? Or no head at all?”

Things have changed greatly since The Honeymooners originally aired on CBS. The original show was based on a comedy sketch featured on Jackie Gleason’s variety show and aired for just one season from 1955-56. Gleason starred as bus driver Ralph Kramden with Audrey Meadows co-starring as his wife, Alice. The classic Kramden line of threatening to end Alice “to the moon” with an upraised fist has become very well known and has often been referenced in pop culture throughout the decades.

This Isn’t the First Reboot for The Honeymooners

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Paramount Pictures rebooted The Honeymooners as a feature film in 2005. Directly based on the original sitcom, the film starred Cedric the Entertainer as a new incarnation of Ralph with Gabrielle Union as Alice. Mike Epps, Regina Hall, Carol Woods, and John Leguizamo also starred. A box office bomb, the reboot was panned by critics, though legendary critic Roger Ebert was one of the few who praised it. Union also told us at the time how important it was for the reboot to be made.

“When you get married, there are certain things that you can find humor in that I would have never thought would be funny when I was single, so I took a lot of my own life and my own experiences as a married woman and I brought that into it,” Union said, feeling The Honeymooners should be relatable to everyone.

“I knew that we were doing a comedy but to do a kind of extended film version of a half hour sitcom, I thought it was going to be more important that you were able to follow these characters and be able to get into them and hopefully want Ralph to win and have some connection with the characters,” added Cedric the Entertainer. “And then also just taking it on from a predominantly white show, making it an African-American show, what I still wanted to do was accomplish the everyman aspect of it. Even though we’re switching it to African-American, everybody still should be able to identify with Ralph. And I think that was the other aspect. So the story ended up becoming a lot more important in the comedy in a lot of ways.”

It sounds like the new reboot series will have less in common with the original sitcom and reboot movie, starting with the name changes for the main characters. Chances are the jokes about the husband landing a fist “right in the kisser” will also be gone. No casting information has yet been announced and no release date is set at this time.