‘Moonlighting’ Creator Told Bruce Willis About the Show’s Streaming Debut Before Actor Became ‘Not Totally Verbal’: ‘I Know It Means A Lot to Him’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director With “Moonlighting” now available on streaming for the first time thanks to Hulu, series creator Glenn Gordon Caron spoke to the New York Post and confirmed he was able to tell series star Bruce Willis about the show’s streaming resurgence amid the actor’s ongoing frontotemporal dementia (FTP) diagnosis. “Moonlighting,” the Emmy-nominated ABC dramedy that ran for five seasons and 67 episodes in the late 1980s, served as Willis’ acting breakthrough.

He plays a wisecracking detective who teams up with a former fashion model (Cybill Shepherd) to solve crimes after she finds herself broke and left with a detective agency has her only asset. “I know [Bruce is] really happy that the show is going to be available for people, even though he can’t tell me that,” Caron told The Post. “When I got to spend time with him we talked about it and I know he’s excited…The process [to get ‘Moonlighting’ onto Hulu] has taken quite a while and Bruce’s disease is a progressive disease, so I was able to communicate with him, before the disease rendered him as incommunicative as he is now, about hoping to get the show back in front of people.

I know it means a lot to him.” Caron said that he stays in touch with Willis and the actor’s wife, Emma Heming Willis, and he provided a health update on the actor, who retired from the profession after his FTP diagnosis. “The thing that makes [his disease] so mind-blowing is [that] if you’ve ever spent time with Bruce Willis, there is no one who had any more joie de vivre than he,” Caron said. “He loved life and…just adored waking up every morning and trying to live life to its fullest.” “My sense is the first one to three minutes he knows who I am,” he added of his.