Gilmore Girls Revival Scoop

The title is Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.

The four episodes are titled "Winter," "Spring," "Summer" and "Fall."

Each installment will be 90 minutes in length.

Series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and executive producer Dan Palladino pre-wrote all four episodes and will each direct two.

The revival will begin with "Winter" and end with "Fall." According to Sherman-Palladino, "Narratively, it really worked... to open on snow and have a colder, starker environment. And then end on a lusher, warmer, golden-y town, which lends to where the story will end."

The revival will take place in the present day, or roughly eight years after the series ended.

When the action picks up, Luke and Lorelai are still not married.

Speaking of which, Sherman-Palladino says the events of Season 7 won't go ignored or negated in the revival. "I wasn't going to say to the fans who stayed through Season 7, 'Hey, you all wasted your f—ing time for a whole season. So, ignore all that!' We had to pick them up where they left off."

Almost 40 original cast members are currently confirmed to return (including Sparky as Lorelai's dog, Paul Anka!).

Unfortunately, for Sookie St. James fans everywhere, Melissa McCarthy is — at the moment — unavailable to make an appearance. She's back!!!

Sources also confirm that Wayne Wilcox will not be back as Marty.

Sutton Foster, who starred in Sherman-Palladino's Gilmore follow-up Bunheads, will appear as a new character in Stars Hollow.

Speaking of Bunheads, series alum Stacey Oristano (who played shopkeeper Truly) will guest-star in an undisclosed role, as will Bailey De Young, who co-starred on the ABC Family dramedy as ballerina Ginny.

Parenthood's Mae Whitman will share a scene with her former TV mom, Lauren Graham.

At least one of the four main characters — Lorelai, Rory, Emily or Luke — will be getting a new love interest.

Milo Ventimiglia has confirmed he will appear in three episodes as Jess. (Assuming that's what Ventimiglia means when he says he's in "more than two, less than four.")

That said, Ventimiglia says "not much has changed in Jess' world" since we saw him starting his own press in Philadelphia.

The revival began filming Feb. 2 in Los Angeles and wrapped in early May. All four episodes will be released on Nov. 25 at 12:01 am PST.

According to Warner Bros. TV President and Chief Content Officer Peter Roth, longtime fans will get the closure they've been hoping for. "Amy is now able to finish, appropriately, properly and I think with great satisfaction, the show the way it should conclude," he told TVLine.

The long-teased final four words will be an exchange, which Graham strongly hinted will be between Lorelai and Rory. Also, they set up a cliffhanger!

According to Kelly Bishop, the opening "Winter" installment suggests that four months have passed since Richard's death.

Adds Bishop, in regards to Emily's mental state in the revival: "Because of the fact that Emily lost her husband, she's kind of a raw nerve. In a desperate attempt to push through [her grief], she blows between right on the edge of losing it to almost being a little manic."

Because of budgetary restrictions, "certain storylines — one of which involved an ex of Rory's — had been taken out of our hands," according to Sherman-Palladino.

As for Rory's current love life, AS-P says she is "single in the sense that she's not married. But she's dating like any young woman with that face would be."

Despite the creative freedom on Netflix, Amy and Dan are still debating whether to have the characters use swear words.