Saturday Night Live MVP Kate McKinnon will voice the eccentric, red-haired teacher Ms. Frizzle in Netflix’s upcoming series Magic School Bus Rides Again, a reboot of the beloved ’90s book and television series.
Magic School Bus Rides Again has been in development at Netflix for awhile — the series was announced in 2014 under the title The Magic School Bus 360.
Ms. Frizzle is a third-grade teacher with magical/scientific powers who teaches her students through very unorthodox, immersive methods, like shrinking her time and space-bending Magic School Bus down and getting swallowed to take the kids on a field trip through the digestive system.
Tomlin, who’s in the Netflix family with Grace and Frankie, may still lend her voice in some capacity — former Magic School Bus voice actor Stu Stone teased that old cast members will be returning in new roles in an interview with TMZ last month.