Suzanne Somers Pitches ‘Three’s Company’ Reboot With John Ritter Hologram
Three’s Company aired for eight seasons on ABC from 1977 to 1984.
The show followed Chrissy and her roommate Janet (Joyce DeWitt) after they agreed to let Jack move in with them despite their landlord’s prohibition against unmarried people of different genders living together.
Somers hasn’t done a comedy since Step by Step ended in 1998, but she explained that a Three’s Company reboot would entice her to return to the small screen. “That was the last time I was interested in doing another TV show,” the California native explained.
Without Jason, however, she wouldn’t consider it. “Marketing is so much better. Suzanne Somers and John Ritter’s son, Jason,” she said of the Parenthood alum, 42. “
And I guess that’s not what he wanted, but that’s a marketer’s dream. Suzanne Somers and Fred Schmoe are not a marketer’s dream, you know what I mean?”
When Somers joined season 20 of DWTS in 2015, she dedicated one of her performances to John. She and co-star Tony Dovolani recreated the Three’s Company set, and the actress wore her hair in braids to honor Chrissy’s signature look.
“This is for you, John,” she said in a pre-taped package, adding that she and her late co-star had the kind of onscreen chemistry that only happens once in a lifetime. “
It’s the dance that Chrissy and John never got to have.”
