Late last year, fans of the
two-season Disney Channel sitcom-drama “Lizzie McGuire” starring Hillary Duff
were utterly excited by news that the show was being revived as a sort
of-distant sequel that will stream digitally on Disney+. Positive reception to
Lizzie’s return was helped by news that the original show-runner was involved,
and the primary cast was all set to reprise. While many are enthusiastic at
watching the further adventures of “Lizzie” as an aged-30 adult with a job in
New York City, there has also been a vocal group within that believes the
remake will be too restricted on a family-friendly platform like Disney+.
Now, as E! News Online tells it, star Hillary Duff has joined these fans in
clamoring for the upcoming “Lizzie McGuire” revival to change its home streaming
service. This comes about a month after news came in January that the Disney
Channel sitcom’s creator Terri Minsky has left the revival project after only
two episodes were finished. Duff is now making a plea to Disney+ that it let go
of streaming rights for the production-paused show and have it be picked up by
Hulu instead.
On social media, Hillary notes
that while she was excited at being able to bring Lizzie back to life in a new
series, she feels that her character’s trials and tribulations as a grownup cannot
be realistically portrayed on even the highest PG rating allowable for the general-audience
Disney+ library. According to her It is far more relatable for the audience,
especially the original-Lizzie fans who have grown up with the heroine, if they
could tell her story without worrying for parental-guidance filters and
limitations. Duff notes she was inspired to make this request when it was
revealed that “Love, Victor,” a spinoff series for the 20th Century
Fox teen comedy drama film “Love, Simon” (2018), was transferred to Hulu after
initially announced for Disney+.
As it turns out, even Terri Minsky
agrees with the notion that the “Lizzie McGuire” revival would be best served
of its more mature storytelling if it streamed in somewhere like Hulu, now
majority-owned by Disney and being structured as the platform of Disney and
affiliated productions exceeding the family-friendly content of the Disney+
service. In response, a Disney+ rep notes that they are in the middle of
re-developing the new “Lizzie” show while production remains paused, the better
to tell an “authentic” story for old fans and new viewers.
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