Speaking on Collider Ladies Night, Biel said the new iteration will address "technology-based issues, school stuff, bullying stuff, drugs, alcohol" in "a very real way."

Per Variety's report, she explained that the original "gently touched on" those subjects but that the show "had a lot of limitations" that no longer apply, adding, "We have less limitations now." The A.V.

Club frames the surprise in its headline: nobody asked for this reboot, yet it is coming whether audiences like it or not.

The surprise, as the A.V. Club notes, is that a series synonymous with cautious, faith-adjacent WB-era programming is promising to be less restrained.

Biel teased, per that outlet, that the producers are "not going to hold back" as much as before — a striking stance for a reboot of a show that once avoided the very subjects she now lists.

aol.co.uk's report adds another reversal: Biel, who played Mary Camden and is now an executive producer on the reboot, will not reprise her role, instead focusing her energy behind the camera.

Both Variety and the A.V. Club situate the reboot against the original show's complicated legacy.

According to the A.V. Club, the series centered on Reverend Eric Camden (Stephen Collins) and wife Annie (Catherine Hicks) raising their children in suburban California, but its legacy has been "tainted" since Collins admitted in 2014 to inappropriate sexual conduct with three underage girls.

Variety reports that the new iteration will focus on a diverse family and will include none of the original cast members, a clean-break strategy CBS Studios is developing with Biel executive producing under her Iron Ocean banner and Anthony Sparks as showrunner.

Biel's pitch, as quoted across the pack, is that wholesome family television has disappeared.

Variety quotes her saying she looks for shows she can watch with her kids and finds the options limited, and that "some kind of faith, some kind of family, community, and maybe something not so jaded, like something a little bit more glass-half-full" is missing from television.

She was careful to distinguish that vision from softness, telling Variety's account of the interview that it "is not that it's soft, because it's realistic" — realistic programming the whole family can sit down and watch together.

As a producer, Biel told aol.co.uk she wants to create "a safe place for people to be really creative and really vulnerable," arguing that emotionally exposed performances collapse without a protected set and free-flowing communication with actors and crew.

The stakes are considerable: the original ran for 11 seasons and nearly 250 episodes on The WB and later The CW, becoming one of that network's signature hits, so a modernized successor carries both nostalgia weight and a riskier mandate.