Tracey Wigfield on Showrunning Peacock’s 'Saved by the Bell' Reboot and Rethinking Writers Rooms

Tiffani Thiessen can confirm just who Mac’s real dad is – it’s Zack Morris.

Courteney Cox recreated her Friends raw turkey dance for Thanksgiving this year and now she’s explaining just what went into making that moment happen.The Cougar Town alum, 56, reprised the iconic moment from a 1998 episode of the sitcom last month, showing herself dancing with the raw bird on her head in a video as she wished everyone well over the holiday.“Happy Thanksgiving everyone, I hope you’re having a great day. I’m feeling so thankful,” she said via Instagram on November 26.

The diversity of late-night writers rooms is not a new topic of conversation.

The Saved By The Bell creative team has heard Selena Gomez fans loud and clear. In response to backlash the series received after insensitively referencing Gomez’s kidney transplant from 2017, the new reboot edited out the controversial scenes in question. 

Selena Gomez’s 2017 kidney transplant amid mounting internet backlash, according to reports.The series, which premiered last week on NBC’s streaming service Peacock, caught heat on social media over the weekend, as two students at the fictional Bayside High School debated the identity of Gomez’s kidney donor in an episode.

Days after catching backlash for jokes made about Selena Gomez’s 2017 kidney transplant, an episode of Peacock’s “Saved by the Bell” reboot has been edited to remove them. Clips from the episode were shared on social media by fans who were largely appalled that the show would make light of her kidney transplant.

Saved By The Bell reboot is already in hot water with Selena Gomez fans after its debut.The revival - which follows on from the hit early 1990s sitcom chronicling the lives of Bayside's high school students (Zack Morris, AC Slater, Kelly Kapowski etc) - recently premiered in the US on American NBC streaming site Peacock (currently not available in the UK) introducing a range of new characters (and some alumni cameos) to bring the students into the 2020s.One of the new episodes discusses Selena

Peacock has apologized for aSaved By the Bellepisode that referenced Selena Gomez's kidney transplant in a brief scene as well as donated to the singer's lupus charity following social media criticism over the episode. "We apologize.

Francia Raisa is speaking out against the reboot's joke about Selena Gomez's kidney transplant.

Saved By the Bell reboot stepped on the wrong foot of Selena Gomez fans recently. The show, which recently began streaming on a streaming service in the US, left fans of the singer upset after they joked about her kidney transplant.

Francia Raisa has broken her silence regarding the Saved By the Bell reboot making jokes about Selena Gomez‘s kidney transplant surgery.

The Saved By The Bell re-boot is walking back a joke it made at the expense of Selena Gomez after her hard-charging fans went after the new show!

The streaming service Peacock has released an apology after Selena Gomez‘s fans expressed outraged over a joke about her kidney transplant surgery in the new Saved By the Bell reboot series.

Selena Gomez fans took to social media to criticize the new Saved by the Bell reboot after the Peacock series made fun of the singer’s 2017 kidney transplant.In a scene from the reboot, which premiered on NBCUniversal’s streaming service on Wednesday, November 25, two high school students can be seen arguing about who donated a kidney to the “Lose You to Love Me” singer, 28.“I know for a fact that Selena Gomez’s kidney donor was Justin Bieber‘s mom,” one girl says.

Selena Gomez fans are coming to her support. On Saturday, "Respect Selena Gomez" began trending on Twitter after a scene from the reboot went viral.

Selena Gomez” was trending on Twitter Saturday as fans admonished Peacock’s new “Saved by the Bell” reboot over references to the actor and singer’s kidney transplant.Despite receiving a transplant from her close friend, actor Francia Raísa, one scene from episode six of the series features two Bayside High students speculating about the identity of the donor.“I know for a fact that Selena Gomez’s kidney donor was Justin Bieber’s mom.

Selena Gomez, 28, has a dedicated and loyal fanbase. The “Selenators” weren’t very happy that their queen was mocked in an episode of the Saved By The Bell reboot on Peacock, and quickly made the phrase “Respect Selena Gomez” trend on Twitter. The joke specifically referenced Selena’s life-saving kidney transplant, which was donated by her close friend Francia Raisa, 32, back in 2017. Selena required the surgery due to complications from Lupus, which she was diagnosed with in 2015.