'Gilmore Girls' Revival News Update: Melissa McCarthy Finally Announces She'll Return For Netflix's Comedy Series

By R. Siva Kumar - 12 Apr '16 16:31PM

Melissa McCarthy has denied for months that she would be reprising her role as Sookie St. James in the "Gilmore Girls" revival through Netflix. But now, she confirms, finally, that she would come back to Stars Hallow. It was at an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" that she made the announcement.

"There is something I've been asked about so, so many times, and it hasn't worked out," McCarthy told DeGeneres. "They're making four new movies of the 'Gilmore Girls,' which is a show that was near and dear to my heart for four years, and we could not get those schedules to work... There was a whole thing, and then I was going to be out of the country, and, literally, about an hour and a half ago, we figured out that I'm going to go back and do it, and I am so excited! They're going to be amazing."

During its first revival in January, McCarthy had tweeted that she had not been invited to join them. "...sadly no one asked me or Sookie to come back to Stars Hollow. Wish them all the best," she wrote in early February.

In the series starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel as a mother-daughter duo, McCarthy had not expected to be called. She had first said that she would be "very surprised if that happens" in reference to her returning to the show.

Earlier, the executive producer Amy Sherman-Palladino had said she wanted McCarthy back, even though the conflict of schedules was creating a problem: "I know what the scene is. I'll pre-light it for her. She can drive up, run in, shoot it and run out. I can get her in and out in two hours. If she finds that time, I don't care when it is, we will make it happen."

The "Gilmore Girls" production is being carried out in Los Angeles and is expected to include most of the original cast members, including Graham, Bledel, Scott Patterson, Kelly Bishop, Jared Padalecki and Milo Ventimiglia, along with the "Younger" star Sutton Foster, who is a new character.

The production will begin eight years after the seventh season aired. Its creator Sherman-Palladino and executive producer Daniel Palladino involved in the writing and directing of the new mini-movies. Each will be 90 minutes long.

Every episode, or chapter, will be one of the four seasons in one year with the titles "Winter," Spring," Summer" and "Fall."