Drake Bell (All That, Sam & Cat), in an interview on the latest episode of the Beyond the Velvet Rope podcast, shared that he would be open to the idea of creating reboot of Drake & Josh, but with a Curb Your Enthusiasm-inspired twist, Entertainment Weekly reports.
“I have a really special place in my heart for Drake & Josh and I would love to revisit the character,” Bell explained via Entertainment Weekly. “I’d love to revisit something with Josh, whether it’s a reboot or… my dream is to do something kind of like Curb Your Enthusiasm, where we’re playing ourselves but trying to navigate life today.”
“Maybe I’m trying to get Josh back together with me and he’s like, ‘Dude, you’re annoying, get away,'” he continued via Entertainment Weekly. “I don’t know what it is, but I would love to do some kind of Entourage or Curb Your Enthusiasm-type thing with Josh one day.”
Furthermore, Bell explained he wants the other recurring characters to be back on this possible reboot, stating, via Entertainment Weekly, “It’d be really cool to have Crazy Steve, Helen, Craig and Eric, Audrey and Walter, and bring the whole gang back, you know, Megan. I think it’d be really fun.”
According to Entertainment Weekly, the series aired between 2004 and 2007 for four consecutive seasons, starring Bell and Josh Peck (The Amanda Show, Red Dawn) as two teenage stepbrothers who were forced to live together because their respective parents, portrayed by Nancy Sullivan (Monster Island, The Amanda Show) and Jonathan Goldstein (NCIS, Party Down), were married. At the same time, the two stepbrothers have to take care of their troublemaker and younger sister, Megan, portrayed by Miranda Cosgrove (The Intruders, Just Jordan). Because of its huge popularity, the series had the opportunity to make two TV movies, Drake & Josh Go Hollywood and Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh, with one TV special in season four, named Really Big Shrimp.
Furthermore, according to Entertainment Weekly, Nickelodeon has brought some revivals of their previous ’90s and 2000s shows back on TV in the most recent years. A few examples are Good Burger, Zoey 101 and Cosgrove’s iCarly.
To conclude, according to Entertainment Weekly, Bell, in an interview with Patriot-News in August, has previously explained that he wanted to create something “special” and out of the ordinary for a potential Drake & Josh reboot or reunion project.
“I think it’d be funnier if we go on to doing other buddy comedies, you know?” he said via Entertainment Weekly. “Something that is kind of a surprise, a little different. It would be more interesting.”
Bell, according to Entertainment Weekly, has reappeared in the public eye after being vocal about the Investigation Discovery docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, in which he confessed his story of being sexually abused by a dialogue coach when he was younger, specifically while he was working on his previous series, The Amanda Show, before Drake & Josh.
Bell’s full Behind the Velvet Rope podcast interview can be heard here. Drake & Josh is available to stream on Paramount+.