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White Collar revival: Matt Bomer and creator think it’s possible

By Louis Skye

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - MARCH 07: (L-R) Actors Marsha Thomason, Matt Bomer, Willie Garson, Sharif Atkins, Tiffani Thiessen and Tim DeKay attend the Paley Center for Media's PaleyFest 2011 event honoring "White Collar" at the Saban Theater on March 7, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by John M. Heller/Getty Images)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - MARCH 07: (L-R) Actors Marsha Thomason, Matt Bomer, Willie Garson, Sharif Atkins, Tiffani Thiessen and Tim DeKay attend the Paley Center for Media's PaleyFest 2011 event honoring "White Collar" at the Saban Theater on March 7, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by John M. Heller/Getty Images) /
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White Collar may be seeing a revival, according to the stars of the show. We have the latest on the talks and conjecture.

White Collar fans may have reason to be excited—the show could be seeing a revival sometime soon, TVLine reported on a conversation the stars of the series had during a live-streamed discussion on YouTube.

Series leads Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay, Sharif Atkins, Hilarie Burton, Willie Garson, Marsha Thomason, and Tiffani Thiessen appeared in a reunion video on the YouTube web show ‘Stars in the House’—created during the quarantine period by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley to support The Trevor Project.

Bomer, who played White Collar’s lovable conman Neal Caffrey, said on the web show: “There are real conversations happening. There seems to be a lot of excitement about it. What form that takes and how it plays out and whether all the creatives involved can work it out and make it happen is yet to be seen. But we’re all really optimistic and hopeful.”

The news arrives on the heels of tweets from White Collar creator Jeff Eastin confirming that he had been in conversations with Bomer about ways to revive the show.

It will be interesting to see how the series—which ran from 2009-2014—can be revived for a post-pandemic world. The story focused on an art thief, Caffrey, working with the FBI for a reduced sentence—which may not be ideal for the world’s current situation.

However, the opportunity to once again see Caffrey’s partnership with the often-uppity Peter Burke, the FBI agent who caught him, should be enough to excite fans.

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The chemistry between the leads made for compelling viewing and propelled the show to immense success. The addition of a diverse and well-written supporting cast, including Garson’s Mozzie, Thomason’s Agent Diana Berrigan, Atkins’ Agent Clinton Jones, and Thiessen’s Elizabeth Burke rounded off the show and gave it depth.

White Collar was also ground-breaking in its portrayal of Agent Berrigan as an out lesbian FBI agent who was more than her sexuality.

Though the show’s final season wasn’t as well-received as the earlier seasons, the ending led to many debates that continue among fans to this day.

According to the “Stars in the House” episode, the stars of White Collar enjoyed their experience on the show and are all hankering for a return.

Sadly, one of the major draws of the series, Tony Award and Golden Globe Award-winning singer and actor Diahann Carroll passed away in 2019. Presumably, a revival would pay homage to her character, June Ellington, in some way.

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When exactly a revival could happen is still to be decided—and considering the current environment, it is likely that the show will only be penciled in for 2021 or later.

White Collar is available for streaming on Amazon Prime and Hulu.

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