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Getty ImagesCory and Topanga are officially back.
Original Boy Meets World co-stars Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel have been tapped to reprise their roles as Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence in Disney Channel’s Boy Meets World follow-up, Girl Meets World, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
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As first reported by TV Line, the duo will step back into the roles they made famous in the ABC TGIF series that ran from 1993-2000.
In the Disney Channel project — currently in the pilot stage — Savage and Fishel’s Cory and Topanga are a happily married couple and parents to 13-year-old daughter named Riley, from whose point of view the story is told.
Boy Meets World creator and executive producer Michael Jacobs is on board to shepherd the follow-up, with a nationwide casting search under way for an actress to play the starring role as Riley Matthews.
Savage is repped by Abrams Artists Agency; Fishel is with Levity Entertainment Group.
Email: Lesley.Goldberg@thr.com; Twitter: @Snoodit
