Dustin Diamond Casts a New Kelly Kapowski

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SAVED BY THE BELL FINDS ITS NEWEST KELLY KAPOWSKI

When you watch "Kelly Kapowski" this year you will find a new Kelly Kapowski on your screens as Dustin Diamond decides to recast the role originally held by Yasmine Green to now ICE's 6th round draft choice Victoria Konefal who will be taking on the role now as Yasmine Green was transferred to a role on "My Sister Kate" to replace Lucy Hale who left ICE to become ROD's newest CEO a couple of years ago. The original Kelly Kapowski, Tiffani Thiessen currently occupies the role on the Saved By the Bell revival project "The Adult Years" as Tiffani's version of Kelly is in her 40s on that show. Tiffani also has a role in Kelly Kapowski as well and the younger Kelly has the same name which is the point of the show as it's a show about a young girl who was named after Kelly Kapowski by her parents ends up finding Kelly to learn more about her and how to improve her life after running away from home at a young age.

Saved By the Bell franchise producer Dustin Diamond first discovered Victoria Konefal in La Guardian High School in New York City and had her audition for the New Girls in Town Pageant way back in 2013 where she would eventually get drafted by The ICE Phederation back in 2016. One thing Dustin loved about Victoria is that she reminded him so much of Tiffani Thiessen especially her face and immediately wanted to get her into one of his Saved By the Bell shows after she got drafted.

Also joining Victoria Konefal is a young friend of hers Jacquelyn Jablonski who was drafted ahead of her and grew up in New York with her as she'll have a designed role on the show as a cousin who finds her after she ran away from home.

Victoria Konefal will make her debut as the new Kelly Kapowski starting on Friday, September 7, 2018, when the new look sitcom tapes its season premiere live in daytime at 7pm/6c on ICE channel 7. Kelly Kapowski will take part in a special crossover event for the season premiere of The Adult Years the following Wednesday in primetime.

You can also see Victoria Konefal on Wednesday as she'll be competing in baseball and will be a runner for Team ICE and she'll make her debut on Youthful Daydreamers this Thursday where you can see her every weekday afternoon.

Also added to the Saved By the Bell franchise will be a full reboot of "Saved By the Bell" with a new cast of characters starting on Saturday, September 8, 2018, apart of the new Teen ICE block of programming aimed at teen viewers on Saturday mornings. The first episode will actually be taped the night before after Kelly Kapowski tapes its episodes on Friday this fall at 7:00pm in Toronto and right before Jaime tapes live in primetime for ICE.

The Saved By the Bell franchise will have three shows on the air this fall as you remember The Adult Years aired on ROD last season before moving to ICE this season.

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I didn't mind letting The Adult Years get away from my network because I know at ICE it'll have a great home there

I think Victoria Konefal looks almost exactly like Tiffani Thiessen that was some great casting there.

ICE can you explain your decision for not having Kelly Kapowski in primetime?

I can't wait to see the way the Saturday morning scene turns out too in the ratings.

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Yeah, I feel like The Adult Years belonged over here and there's room for it to do well over here. We're not programming as many comedies to start the year so we wanted the best 8 on the air until we expand to 12 in midseason.

Agreed when I saw Victoria Konefal for the very first time I immediately said in my head she looks way too much like Tiffani Thiessen.

I actually didn't want to air Kelly Kapowski in primetime because I made important casting changes to Jaime and Bastard Kids needed a slot in primetime it's too raunchy for daytime. I wanted Saved By the Bell to have a presence in all three windows early evening hours in daytime, Saturday mornings in daytime, and primetime.

Saturday mornings are absolutely going to be must-see I can't wait to see how this turns out.

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I wondering why I only saw 8 comedies on your guy's schedule it seems like last year you guys had like 3-4 comedy nights.

Tiffani's doppleganger if you ask me lol

That makes sense on Kelly Kapowski I guess it makes daytime stronger as well and yeah Saturday Mornings will be huge this season I got some stuff I'm still thinking about doing before I post my weekend schedule.

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Great casting choice here as I agree with you guys Victoria looks like the original Kelly Kapowski from Saved By the Bell.

I'm interested in seeing how Victoria's career turns out and how these Saved By the Bell shows rate this year there's been an overall plan here and I like it when people have plans.