John Stamos appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday night and confirmed a rumor that had been swirling for some time: late-’80s/early-’90s saccharine-sweet sitcom Full House is coming back to television. The 13-episode Fuller House will air on Netflix sometime next year, and once again will fature three adults raising three kids in a home in San Francisco. Except, instead of Danny, Jesse and Joey, the adults are DJ (the mother of three), Kimmy and Stephanie.
The way Stamos described it, the first episode will be one happy reunion episode, before the girls take over the house and carry the spin-off. If that sounds weird, it’s pretty much the same arrangement as the original: DJ is Danny, Steph is the new Jesse (even though she is DJ’s blood sister, instead of in-law), and Gibbler is the wacky old friend (annoying neighbor instead of college friend). How DJ comes to be single mother of three hasn’t been explained yet, but hopefully it won’t be as depressing as how her dad became a widower (drunk driver).
