The Real Reason Helen Hunt And Paul Reiser Are Rebooting Mad About You

In an interview with Closer Weekly, Hunt recalled how she and Reiser met up several times since the show wrapped, and the idea of returning kept cropping up. "We had a lot of lunches together, and both of us the same amount were 100 percent sure we would never do it," she explained. However, one fateful day, they realized returning to Mad About You made a certain amount of sense. 

"We got home and we had emailed each other at the same moment and we said, 'Are we crazy? Maybe this is an interesting idea,'" Hunt recalled.

The reboot is set to air on Spectrum Originals starting Nov. 20. Hunt described fan support for the show as a "fantastic phenomenon" to Parade. "I guess there's some theory that things have been so incredibly painful in the news lately that there's a wish to escape that, and that might be true, too, and that's great," she said.

She took to Instagram to share a shot with Reiser on set, captioning it, "First day of school." As for how the actors felt being back, she told Closer Weekly, "It was as if no time had passed."