Is a DUKES OF HAZZARD Reboot in the Works?
By Movieguide® Contributor
Catherine Bach, who starred as Daisy Duke in the hit show THE DUKES OF HAZZARD, recently alluded to a potential series reunion.
“Well, you know, shows are a mystical thing at best,” she told Fox News Digital. “You never know what’s going to work or how things are going to click, and you have to have a good writer. You can’t just be writing on an idea. You have to execute that idea. So, yeah, if everything comes together, of course. I’m still here. The guys are still here. It would be great. But I don’t know.”
THE DUKES OF HAZZARD ran from 1979-1985 and starred Bach, Tom Wopat and Dan Schneider.
“Cousins Bo and Luke Duke and their car ‘General Lee,’ assisted by Cousin Daisy and Uncle Jesse, have a running battle with the authorities of Hazzard County (Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane), plus a string of ne’er-do-wells often backed by the scheming Hogg,” a synopsis of the show reads.
Bach teased a reunion last year at the Gallatin Comic Con. Movieguide® reported:
“First of all, John and Tom are family,” Bach said of her co-stars. “I love them both so much and always love to catch up with them. It’s a lot of laughs when we gather.”
“We have so much history and know everything about each other,” she added. “Well, pretty much everything. The secret to our long friendship is caring. We have seen each other through the good times and sad times…I do count on my TV cousins, and I think they know they can always count on me.”
She then teased that there could be a possible reboot.
“As far as a DUKES reunion, anything is possible,” she stated.
Interestingly, Bach originally didn’t want the role of Daisy Duke.
“Here’s the thing — they’ve been looking for a year for that part,” she said in 2019. “They went to New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Georgia and California. Nothing. So I said, ‘That’s very nice of you to think of me, and I know you’re doing this as a favor to my husband, but you don’t have to.’ I just didn’t think I had a chance. But he goes, ‘I really want you to come in.’”
Bach continued, “A few weeks later, I was at some little Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills with my girlfriend, who directed my one-act play…I tell her, ‘I do have this interview that I’m supposed to go, but I’m not…You know part Daisy Duke for Warner Bros.? They want me to come in, but I know I’m not going to get it’…She goes, ‘It’s Warner Bros. You never know who you’re going to meet on the way in and on the way out. Just go!’ So I went.”
“After I did my reading during the audition, there was total silence,” she added. “I thought, ‘Oh no, they didn’t like what I did.’ Then everyone, we’re talking about 30 people, got up and started clapping. They just connected with my vision of how this part should be played. Two weeks later, I was on a plane to Georgia.”
