Pour a pint of coffee, put three donuts on your plate and start talking faster than an Aaron Sorkin character because everyone's favourite New England mother daughter duo might be coming back.
Gilmore Girls, which was originally on telly between 2000 and 2007, and then on Netflix as a mini series in 2016, has some of the most devoted fans in television. So the prospect that there might be more episodes - especially following the enormous cliffhanger we were left with at the end of the final episode - has got fans excited.
But, before you book a flight to Hartford Airport, it's worth mentioning that the episodes aren't confirmed. Amy Sherman Palladino, who wrote the show with her husband Dan Palladino, did the celebrity favourite of not ruling anything out.
She was asked at the 2020 Writers Guild award earlier this week whether she'd consider writing more episodes, to which she responded, ' You know, it’s the kind of thing where we hadn’t planned on doing the Netflix movies. Never say never.'
So the cameras aren't exactly rolling yet, but still. Better than a total denial.
We'd like to politely request that in any future episodes we just really need to see Chad Michael Murray return and find love with Lisa Weil (Paris Geller). Give the people what they want.
While there isn't any new Gilmore Girls online right now, the duo do write Amazon Video's Mrs Maisel which is a) brilliant and b) has even faster dialogue.
Oy with the poodles already!
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Gilmore Girls Facts
1 of 291. Unlike her on-screen alter-ego Rory, Alexis Bledel hates drinking coffee.
Her coffee cups were filled with Coke during filming instead.
2 of 292. Alexis had never acted before her Gilmore Girls audition.
Before Rory, her biggest role was appearing in the background of Wes Anderson's film Rushmore. While studying at NYU, she decided to give the audition a shot.
3 of 293. Wondering why Lorelai has her arm around Rory for so much of season one?
With Alexis new to acting, her on-screen mum Lauren Graham would literally steer her into place to make the shoot go smoother. A classic Lorelai move, we say.
4 of 29. Amy Sherman-Palladino has never seen the seventh and final season of the show.
The showrunner left Gilmore Girls after six seasons at the helm, due to a disagreement over contracts. She's since revealed that she would have found it difficult to watch the characters she created being taken out of her control, though we're guessing the rest of the GG team has brought her up to speed ahead of the Netflix revival…
5 of 295. Gilmore Girls only ever won one Emmy – in a pretty unexpected category
Over seven seasons of the show, it picked up a sole Emmy nod for Outstanding Make-Up for a Series (awarded for 'The Festival Of Living Art' in Season Four).
6 of 296. Luke was originally a woman named Daisy.
The network, however, thought the show had too many female characters as cast regulars, and that Stars Hollow needed a male lead, so Daisy became Luke.
7 of 297. He wasn’t always meant to be a series regular, though.
Scott Patterson was only contracted for a handful of episodes, until the producers (and fans) became aware of his on-screen chemistry with Lauren Graham.
8 of 298. English is actually Alexis Bledel’s second language.
On screen, we see Rory chatting with Esperanza in high school Spanish, but in real life, the actress (who is of Argentinian descent) is fluent – she grew up speaking Spanish with her family, and learnt English when she started school.
9 of 299. Stars Hollow was inspired by Washington Depot in Connecticut.
As Gilmore Girls legend goes, Amy Sherman-Palladino took a trip to this picture-perfect New England town, returning with an idea for Stars Hollow. Earlier this year, Washington Depot hosted the first Gilmore Girls Fan Fest ahead of the Netflix revival.
10 of 2910. The Stars Hollow set also doubles up as the town of Rosewood on Pretty Little Liars.
While these two fictional locales might look identical, Stars Hollow and Rosewood couldn't be more different. It's hard to imagine a psychotic cyber-criminal running amok in Stars Hollow, where all problems are solved by trading one-liners and coffee.
11 of 2911. It’s not just your imagination – everyone does talk really, really fast.
The average script for a one-hour TV show runs to between 45 and 50 page; the average script for an episode of Gilmore Girls ran between 75 and 80 to allow for the speedy back-and-forth dialogue. As the show's tagline put it, 'life's short, talk fast.'
12 of 2912. A voice coach was hired to make sure that the cast was speaking fast enough.
Dialogue coach George Bell ended up appearing as Professor Bell when Rory went to Yale
13 of 2913. Still nursing some bad feeling towards Luke’s daughter, April? You’re not alone.
Actress Vanessa Marano didn't like her character too much, either. 'When I got the breakdown for the role, I was like "You're giving Luke a daughter! This is going to break them up,"' she told A. S. Berman in The Gilmore Girls Companion. '"I hated myself. How can my character do this?"'
14 of 2914. Liza Weil (who played frenemy Paris Gellar) originally auditioned to play Rory.
While she wasn't quite right for the part, she managed to impress Amy Sherman-Palladino so much that she created a new character, Paris, especially for her.
15 of 2915. The Gilmore Girls theme tune is – appropriately – a mother-daughter duet.
Folk star Carole King re-recorded her 1970 song 'Where You Lead' (taken from the album Tapestry) especially for Gilmore Girls, with the lyrics subtly shifted to mirror the show's mother-daughter relationship, and the vocals shared with her daughter, Louise Goffin.
16 of 2916. Carole King also crops up on the show as a guest character.
The singer appears in three episodes across the show's seven seasons as Sophie Bloom, the owner of Stars Hollow's music store.
17 of 2917. Her character Lorelai may have hated Friday night dinners with her mother, but these were Lauren Graham’s favourite scenes to film…
Especially if they involved arguing with Kelly Bishop (Emily Gilmore). These scenes took a particularly long time to shoot, as they used different perspectives and camera angles.
18 of 2918. Ryan Gosling auditioned for a role, but didn’t get very far.
At the Gilmore Girls Fan Festival this year, casting director Jami Rudofsky revealed that she invited Ryan (who she had previously cast in an independent movie) to read for a small role on the show. The audition, however, fell flat, and Ryan never made it to Stars Hollow. Let's just take a moment to imagine what might have been…
19 of 2919. Kelly Bishop is also famous for playing another on-screen mum.
You'll recognise her as Marjorie Houseman, Baby's mother in Dirty Dancing (one of many films referenced or name-checked by Rory and Lorelai).
20 of 2920. A Jess spin-off show nearly happened.
Remember the episode where Jess heads to California to meet his father? It was supposed to open the door for a spin-off show, but filming costs were too high and the series never made it to our screens. Far better that the Gilmore Girls legacy remains untarnished by spin-offs, we say.
21 of 2921. Over seven seasons of the show, 339 books were referenced.
It makes for quite the reading list…
22 of 2922. Yes, that is Jon Hamm you’ve spotted in an early episode.
Pre-Mad Men, he appeared in Season Three as Peyton Sanders, Lorelai's rich but very dull date.
23 of 2923. Alexis Bledel returned the favour when she appeared in Mad Men as Beth Dawes, a neighbour of Pete Campbell.
She went on to marry Vincent Kartheiser (who played Pete) in 2014.
24 of 2924. Before that, she dated co-star Milo Ventimiglia (Jess) for three and a half years.
FYI, Jess, Dean and Logan all appear in the Netflix revival.
25 of 2925. Jared Padalecki doesn’t appear as Dean in the pilot episode.
Rory's first love interest was played by actor Nathan Wetherington, but the show's team didn't think he was quite right for the character, and swapped him for Jared once the show was picked up by Warner Brothers.
26 of 2926. Before Kirk was Kirk, he was Mick.
Stars Hollow's resident odd-job man is introduced in the first episode in a different guise altogether: that of the equally abrasive Mick, who installs internet cables (remember those?) in the Gilmore home.
27 of 2927. Adam Brody’s departure gets explained away with a subtle OC reference.
When Adam's character Dave (boyfriend to Rory's best friend Lane, keep up…) leaves after one season, Lane reveals that he went off to study in California. In fact, the actor left Gilmore Girls to star as Seth Cohen in The OC which, of course, takes place in Orange County, California (Californiaaaa...)
28 of 2928. Similarly, Tristan’s departure from Chilton is because he gets sent to military school in North Carolina.
That's where Chad Michael Murray went to film his roles on Dawson's Creek and One Tree Hill.
29 of 2929. Amy Sherman-Palladino wrote the final four words of the show early on.
Due to her premature departure, though, we didn't hear them at the end of season seven, and will have to wait until A Year In The Life airs to find out…