Paramount+ Orders Clueless Sequel Starring Alicia Silverstone
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- Paramount+ ordered a limited Clueless sequel series with Alicia Silverstone reprising her role as Cher Horowitz and serving as an executive producer, with filming set to begin in Los Angeles in 2027.
- Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage and Jordan Weiss are writing the series via their Fake Empire banner and executive produce alongside Silverstone, original writer-director Amy Heckerling and producer Robert Lawrence.
- The series picks up 30 years after the 1995 film, with Cher now a successful businesswoman and mother who feels "clueless" again while navigating her daughter's high school years.
- CBS Studios spent seven years trying to launch a Clueless series, including a Dionne-centered version at Peacock in 2020 and a Silverstone-led version that landed at Peacock in April 2025 before the streamer passed.
- The greenlight is the first new series order by Paramount+ from corporate sibling CBS Studios since Skydance's August 2025 acquisition of Paramount.
- The 1995 film was recently added to the US National Film Registry, and a 1996 Clueless TV adaptation ran three seasons with Rachel Blanchard replacing Silverstone as Cher.
Why it matters: This marks Paramount+'s first CBS Studios series order since Skydance's August 2025 acquisition, with the new regime picking up a project the prior leadership had been tracking. The seven-year slog and two failed Peacock attempts show how hard it has been to monetize the IP without the original creative team — Silverstone, Heckerling and Lawrence all attached this time gives the post-merger slate a nostalgia anchor built on proven brand equity.
