Mark-Paul Gosselaar admits his Saved by the Bell podcast is "a little bit torturous," but he's glad that it's different from other TV recap podcasts

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Gosselaar recently teamed with Zack Morris is Trash creator and Saved by the Bell reboot writer Dashiell Driscoll on the new Zack to the Future podcast. "I always wanted to do something, but I could never find something that would celebrate the original product without tarnishing it in some way," says Gosselaar. "Had I thought of Zack Morris is Trash, I would have been very proud of that take on it because I think that’s an original take. I was a huge fan of Dashiell through his work on Zack Morris is Trash. And I’ve been approached many times to do a podcast, but I didn’t watch the show so I couldn’t wrap my head around how we would do a rewatch show. So we’re trying to do something different. There’s rewatch shows for The Office and what Zach Braff is doing with Donald Faison, but it’s still so fresh in their minds; they still remember the process and the stories that happened on set. I remember nothing. The (new show) really accelerated the talks of getting it on the air, but Dashiell was the key to doing a project that didn’t feel like the current ones out there. It felt like a fresh take on it and I was excited to be his partner."