Peacock Rounds Out the Cast of 'Saved by the Bell' Sequel | THR News - video Dailymotion

Josie Totah and original series veterans Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley and Mark-Paul Gosselaar head the ensemble for the show.

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00:00Saved by the Bell sequel has officially found its cast.

00:04The sequel series to the 90's classic, which will air on NBCUniversal's new

00:08streaming platform, will feature three veterans from the original teen comedy

00:12including Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley and Mark Paul Gosseler, who played

00:16AC Slater, Jesse Spano and Zack Morris, respectively.

00:20The series will star newcomer to the series Josie Toda, who will play the lead

00:23role of Lexi, a sharp-tongued cheerleader at Bayside.

00:27The show will also feature other new faces including Dexter Darden as Devante,

00:31a mysterious loner who comes to Bayside, Huskiri Velasquez as Daisy, a smart,

00:36ambitious sophomore who attends Bayside after her local school is shut down,

00:40Alicia Pascual-Pena, who plays Daisy's fun-loving but ultra-competitive best friend

00:44Aisha, Mitchell Hoog as Mac Morris, the handsome, charming, privileged son of

00:49Governor Zack Morris, and Belmont Kameli as Jamie, Jesse Spano's son and captain

00:54of the Bayside football team.

00:55The update will find Zack Morris, now the governor of California, getting into hot

00:59water for closing too many low-income high schools.

01:02He proposes that the affected students be sent to the highest performing schools in the

01:06state, including his alma mater, Bayside High. The influx of new students gives the

01:11overprivileged Bayside kids a much-needed and hilarious dose of reality.

01:15The show is a continuation of the original series, which ran from 1989 to 1993 on Saturday

01:21mornings on NBC. The sequel series is expected to premiere later this year.

01:25For more on this story, head to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.