Drake Bell wants to reboot “Drake & Josh” with a “Curb Your Enthusiasm”-inspired twist
"I'd love to revisit something with Josh [Peck]," the actor said on the "Behind the Velvet Rope" podcast.
Drake Bell would love to find a way, find a way to bring Drake & Josh back to TV screens, and he has a pretty, pretty good idea for how to do it.
On the latest episode of the Beyond the Velvet Rope podcast, the former Nickelodeon star said he'd be open to reuniting with castmate Josh Peck and reviving the show that made them famous — but this time with a Curb Your Enthusiasm-inspired update.
"I have a really special place in my heart for Drake & Josh and I would love to revisit the character," said Bell, 38. "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."
In fact, Bell already has a meta idea for why the duo would be linking up again. "Maybe I'm trying to get him back together with me and he's like, 'Dude, you're annoying, get away,'" he said. "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."
Bell also expressed interest in working with his other Drake & Josh castmates again. "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," he said, referring to the characters played by Jerry Trainor, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alec Medlock, Scott Halberstadt, Nancy Sullivan, Jonathan Goldstein, and Miranda Cosgrove." I think it'd be really fun."
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Airing for four seasons between 2004 and 2007, Drake & Josh starred Bell and Peck as teenage stepbrothers who are forced to get along — and fend off their younger sister — after their parents get married. The series also spawned two made-for-TV movies (Drake & Josh Go Hollywood and Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh) and a TV special (Really Big Shrimp).
Meanwhile, Nickelodeon has revived several of its hit '90s and 2000s shows in recent years, including Good Burger, Zoey 101, and Cosgrove's own iCarly.
Bell has previously expressed his desire to do something "special" and out of the ordinary when it comes to a potential Drake & Josh reunion project.
"I think it'd be funnier if we go on to doing other buddy comedies, you know?" he told Pennsylvania's Patriot-News in August. "Something that is kind of a surprise, a little different. It would be more interesting."
Bell's podcast appearance also comes several months after the release of the Investigation Discovery docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, in which he opened up about being sexually abused by a dialogue coach while working on another Nickelodeon series, The Amanda Show.
Listen to Bell's full interview on Behind the Velvet Rope above.
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