Gilmore Girls Raises the Woof, Retrieves 'Paul Anka' for Netflix Revival 

TVLine has learned exclusively that Lorelai’s idiosyncratic canine companion, Paul Anka, will be returning for Netflix’s four-part continuation.

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faithful know, Lorelai adopted Paul Anka in Season 6 to help fill the Rory-sized void in her life (mother and daughter were going through a bit of a rough patch, you’ll recall). He remained by Lorelai’s side through the show’s seventh and final season.

vets returning for the revival (click on the gallery below for the most up-to-date cast list).

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Series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and exec producer Daniel Palladino (AKA Team Palladino) are writing and directing all four 90-minute episodes/mini-movies. As TVLine exclusively revealed, each chapter will represent a different season over the course of one calendar year (as such, the episodes will be titled “Winter,” Spring,” Summer” and “Fall”). The revival will be set in the present day, or roughly eight years after the series ended (making Paul Anka about 120 in dog years).

Oh. Paul Anka was one of the things that, starting in season 6, signaled the decline of the show for me. Just too much weirdness for me, and it kind of took me out of the show.

Season 6 was horrible, and we all know whose fault that was, and is why I’m not more excited for the movies / episodes.

But I liked him and was wondering if he’d be back. My mom’s cat is 18 and my grandma’s dog was 16+.

The second half of Season 6 was pretty bad, I agree. Luke turned into an absolute jerk, Lorelai became stupid enough to play along, etc.

For some reason, and I have no idea why, I always think that Paul Anka died in the show. Obviously that’s not true. Still, whenever I engage in a re-watch of GG on Netflix, I find myself genuinely surprised that he makes it to the end. I’m glad to know that he will keep on surprising me in that way for the reboot as well :)

Well Michael you did it, you found out the information i was tweeting about. Paul Anka the dog will be back. Glad to see it is all coming together greatly.

I’mma skip right over the unfortunate canine life expectancy reality implicated by this news and move straight into YAY! PAUL ANKA’S COMING BACK TOO!

I love Paul Anka!!! Hopefully age has not diminished his weirdness.

I love this! The dog can make time in his busy schedule but apparently others have become too big for their britches…

I’m sure Lauren is thrilled (not). She famously did NOT like the dog.

I hate to shatter the Magical Illusion of the Business called Show for you, but Paul Anka will probably not be played by the same dog.

Seems pretty logical to me. Though it’s sad to say, what are the odds that the original dog is still alive? And if he is, how likely is it that he’s healthy enough to spend long days on-set?

Do you know if Sam Phillips is back on music? Will the town troubadour be back??

Please bring Sookie back! I cannot wait for the return of this show, but it just won’t be the same without Melissa.

Please, please, please! don’t make one of the episodes about Paul Anka dying :[

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