Kate McKinnon is going back to school.
Netflix announced Wednesday that McKinnon will provide the voice of Ms. Frizzle in the upcoming Netflix reboot “The Magic School Bus Rides Again.” But not that Ms. Frizzle.
McKinnon will instead play Fiona Frizzle, who is the sister to the the original Ms. Valerie Frizzle. Valerie Frizzle was voiced by Lily Tomlin, who played the character throughout the original series’ entire run.
Airing for 18 consecutive years and seen in more than 39 countries, “The Magic School Bus” is the longest-running kids science series in history. The series was inspired by the bestselling Scholastic books written by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Bruce Degen, with over 85 million books in print worldwide in nine languages.