'I'm excited and sad': Raven-Symoné announces she's leaving The View to work on That's So Raven reboot 

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Raven-Symoné will be leaving The View before the end of the year.

The 30-year-old made the announcement on the show on Thursday morning, revealing that she has been busy developing a reboot to her old Disney Channel comedy That's So Raven (2003-2007).

'I'm excited and sad... but mostly excited': Raven had gushed as she shared the big news.

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Big news! Raven-Symoné will be leaving The View before the end of the year to work on developing a reboot of her Disney Channel series That's So Raven (2003-2007)

'I have a really big surprise, you guys,' Raven shared, before dropping the news that she has long been working with the Disney company and people from The View to make this new show happen.

She called it 'That's So Raven 2,' but noted that, officially, 'there's no title yet.'

In addition to leaving The View, Raven will be leaving New York and moving back to Los Angeles to work on developing the sitcom. 

Back at it! In the new series, Raven will play a single mother of two children, one of whom will learn that she has visions (pictured, Raven on That's So Raven in 2006)

The series will still include Raven's original character - Raven Baxter - but she will now play a single mother, raising two kids, one of whom will learn that she has visions.

The original series followed Raven as a teenage girl who received brief psychic visions.

She would find herself in hilarious and often silly situations - and sometimes trouble - as she then tried to make sure those visions came true.

Excited: Raven called her new show 'That's So Raven 2' though noted that 'there's no title yet'

The pilot for the follow-up series is being written/executive produced by longtime writing/producing partners Scott Thomas and Jed Elinoff (Best Friends Whenever, R.L Stine's The Haunting Hour), as reported by Deadline.

The EVP Original Programming, Disney Channels Worldwide, Adam Bonnett, gushed about the star, sharing: 'Raven’s brilliant style of fearless comedy was a driving force for Disney Channel’s success around the world.'

'Her performance in That’s So Raven is timeless,' he continued, adding: 'We now have our eyes on the future with her, and we’re looking forward to telling more stories for a new generation with an adult Raven Baxter raising her young family.'

There for her: Raven's co-hosts listened excitedly as she shared the big news, despite it meaning that she will be leaving the show

The original series was a breakout hit for the network, with the January 2003 premiere setting ratings records. It then went on for four seasons and 100 episodes.

It was also significant as Raven was the first African American woman to have her name in a comedy series title.

The star, who began producing at 19, won four NAACP Image Awards and two Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, among others, for her role on the series.

Back with a twist: In the original series, teenage girl Raven would receive brief psychic visions that would often land her in hot water

The news follows the successful launch of another Disney Channel reboot, Girl Meets World, which is currently in its third season.

The genderswapped Girl Meets World takes on the same premise as Boy Meets World (1993-2000), with stars Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel appearing as leading girl Rowan Blanchard's parents on the reboot.

Reboots have been all the rage of late, with Raven's fellow co-host Candace Cameron Bure appearing on Full House (1987-1995) reboot Fuller House, which first hit Netflix this past February.

Moving on: Raven shared on Thursday that she was 'excited and sad... but mostly excited' to be leaving The View to work on her new sitcom

The news is also another in a number of cast shakeups at The View, for which Raven had been made a panelist - along with Whoopi Goldberg, Nicole Wallace, and Rosie Perez - in June 2015.

That would make Whoopi the only panelist who has stayed, but on The Wendy Williams Show in September she also said that she would be leaving.