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Northern Exposure Cast Could Make Time In Busy Schedules For Revival

Northern Exposure, the CBS series about weirdos in Alaska that ran for six seasons from 1990 to 1995, could be coming back to the airwaves. There's no official plans in the works from CBS, but pretty much everyone on the cast is willing to do it, according to a report from Entertainment Weekly. Cast members Rob Morrow, Adam Arkin, Janine Turner, and Cynthia Geary got together with series creator Josh Brand and producers Robin Green, Mitchell Burgess, and Cheryl Bloch for a Northern Exposure panel at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, Texas this week.

"We would love it," said Brand about the prospect of a revival, something that it seems every TV show from the 90s is getting nowadays. "Rob has been working trying to get them to do it. I'm sure we'd all agree we would love to see it because I think it is of a time, but it's also not of a time. The show was sort of like salted caramel ice cream, which is the best ice cream because it's sweet and it's got salt. The show was buoyant and it was optimistic, but if you live on the planet, you experience loss and you feel it. There's a lot of loss in the show but it's not depressing because it's a part of living. And that's something that in our culture, our television shows don't like to do."

That's the sort of insight we've all been missing out on since Northern Exposure went off the air. And as for that reboot, with the success of shows like The X-Files and Twin Peaks, it seems only fair that it be Northern Exposure's turn. And pretty much everybody is on board.

"We all want it to happen," said Geary. "Darren's trying. Rob's trying."

"So y'all write letters or send emails!" said Turner, hinting at a streaming service as a possible home. "We want to get it streamed."

"Please, please god, let this happen," said Morrow, probably, as one of his most recent roles was in the second sequel to the movie adaptation of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

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