Alicia Silverstone as Cher in Clueless. Image courtesy Paramount Pictures.

Fashion victims, Monets and virgins who can’t drive, rejoice! Cher Horowitz is coming back to life.

Peacock announced Thursday that it will make a followup series to Clueless, the 1995 quotable cult classic that starred Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Stacey Dash, Elisa Donovan, Donald Faison, Wallace Shawn, and the late Brittany Murphy.

Director and writer Amy Heckerling will serve as Executive Producer, and Silverstone will also act as an EP for the series. Paramount Pictures, which released the original, and Universal Television are co-producing, and the show will stream on Peacock. The writing team of Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (Gossip Girl, The O.C.) are scripting the show along with Jordan Weiss.

No other casting details for the Clueless revival (including the all-important “Is Paul Rudd returning?”) are known at this time. Plot details and schedule haven’t been released either.

Heckerling already created one series based on her iconic film. In 1996 a half-hour comedy, also titled Clueless, ran for three seasons, one on ABC and two on UPN. Rachel Blanchard played Cher as Silverstone was not available, and Dash reprised her role as Dionne and Donovan returned as Amber.

Loosely adapted from Jane Austen’s 1815 novel Emma, both the movie and the series updated the setting from Georgian England to fashion- and status-conscious Beverly Hills, with Cher standing in for Emma Woodhouse as the character whose well-meaning (but, well, clueless,) matchmaking exploits almost lead to heartache.

A previous reboot attempt that would have centered on Dionne and not Cher never got off the ground after it was announced in 2019.

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