‘Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman’ Reboot Nixed By Execs, Jane Seymour Claims
deadline.comThe suits don’t want any Westerns, Jane Seymour says. The actress said in an interview by The Messenger website that she recently pitched an idea for a Dr.
Quinn, Medicine Woman reboot. “We’ve actually got one written, and we’ve got the whole series planned out,” Seymour said. “We just took it to one of the networks, and they said that they weren’t interested in Westerns.” That’s even though Yellowstone and several other Taylor Sheridan stories have become giants. “I think it’s really crazy,” she said. “There seems to be a lot of very successful Westerns, so I didn’t get that at all.” Seymour was equally baffled by a follow-up idea, which presumably came from the same executive. “It was pitched to me last night, believe it or not, to do Dr.
Quinn as a contemporary piece,” Seymour said. “I’m going, ‘Why?’ The whole point of Dr. Quinn is that life hasn’t really changed that much from the 1870s to now in some ways.
In other ways, in a very big way. But a lot of the same issues, are still issues today, and I think that was what was so magical about it.” Dr.
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