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Josie Totah Will Topline Peacock’s “Saved by the Bell” Revival

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Josie Totah is enrolling at Bayside High. The “Champions” alumna has been cast as the lead of Peacock’s “Saved by the Bell” revival, Variety confirms. The NBCu streamer is slated to launch in April.

Written and exec produced by “Great News” creator Tracy Wigfield, the series sees California governor Zack Morris receiving heat for for closing too many low-income high schools. He proposes “they send the affected students to the highest performing schools in the state – including Bayside High. The influx of new students gives the over privileged Bayside kids a much needed and hilarious dose of reality,” according to the logline.

Totah, whose other credits include “Glee” and “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” will play Lexi, a “beautiful, sharp-tongued cheerleader and the most popular girl at Bayside High, who is both admired and feared by her fellow students.”

in 2018 Totah penned an essay in Time coming out as transgender. “This week, I’m going off to college. I’m also going to continue my acting career, and I am so excited to do both things as myself,” she wrote. “I plan to play roles I haven’t had the opportunity to play. And I can only imagine how much more fun it’s going to be to play someone who shares my identity, rather than having to contort myself to play a boy. I’m going to gun for those roles, be it a transgender female or a cisgender female. Because it’s a clean slate — and a new world.”


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