As previously reported, Netflix is reviving the "Gilmore Girls" series but it will do so in an unusual format: instead of 10 episodes for one season, it is doing a short mini-series with four 90-minute episodes. A report from TVLine now explains the narrative structure this type of format will follow.
According to the report, each episode will represent a season in a year, with all four episodes combined culminating in a story that spreads throughout one year. Episode 1 may show all the events taking place in Winter, episode 2 taking place in Spring, episode 3 taking place in Summer and episode 4 presumably taking place in Autumn.
Original series' creator Amy Sherman-Palladino will be writing and directing the seriers alongside executive producer Daniel Palladino, and the series has been confirmed to be set in the modern day, approximately eight years following the series' original finale.
The report also cites that negotiations with the main cast, primarily Alexis Bledel, Lauren Graham, Kelly Bishop and Scott Patterson are still underway, which means that at this point none of them are officially signed on, although it is expected they will all return to their roles.
In the previous report, it was stated that actress Melissa McCarthy may not be returning for the revival series due to her new commitment to the "Ghostbusters" reboot and perhaps because her career in film has currently skyrocketed to the point where it might not be feasible for her to return to television at the time being.
No official release date has yet been announced, but given that Netflix revivals move pretty quickly, it is likely that the revival series will launch before 2016 is over.
"Gilmore Girls" originally ran for seven seasons but series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino was not able to see the series to its end due to a contract dispute with the studios. It is widely speculated that this revival series with Netflix will be Sherman-Palladino's chance to end "Gilmore Girls" the way she originally envisioned it.
