Ashton Kutcher, Danny Masterson reteam on Netflix's 'Ranch'

A “That '70s Show” reunion is in store on “The Ranch.”

Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson - alias the earlier series' Kelso and Hyde - reteam as stars and producers of the Netflix comedy that debuts Friday, April 1, with the first 10 of its 20 first-season episodes available simultaneously.

Executive producer Kutcher plays a semi-pro-football failure who returns home to Colorado to join his brother and father (Masterson, Sam Elliott) in running the family ranch, though there's emotional strain from their many years apart. In a rare series turn since her first major role, as Wonder Girl to “Wonder Woman” in the mid-1970s, Debra Winger also stars as the siblings' bar-operating mother.

“Whether it's television for network or television for cable or television for a streaming service, you have the same goal, which is to make a great product,” Kutcher reasons. “You try to get a great group of people together and work really hard to make something wonderful. I think there's some beautiful liberties that you get when you're working with Netflix that I've never experienced before ... and one is just an absolute creative freedom. They'll suggest things to you that they'd like to see happen, but once they order the show, they let you make your show.

“I think, as a creator, it allows you to think a little bit outside the box and try to push the edges of what's possible and what you're capable of,” adds Kutcher, who also has four seasons of “Two and a Half Men” experience. “We're doing a very traditional format, which is a situational comedy with a live audience - but because we're working with Netflix, we get to explore the ability to tell the story in a slightly different way. We don't have commercial breaks, so we don't have to pump a comedic joke at the end of every scene. We don't have a 22-minute time capsule that we've got to deliver a show in, so it allows us to really play more dramatic story into the format.”

Co-executive producer Masterson said he and Kutcher talked about doing a project together as they each pursued other roles.

“Our favorite stuff on 'That '70s Show' is the Hyde-Kelso relationship of domination and abuse, so when this show was coming together, it was kind of like, 'Let's find adult versions of those guys,'” Masterson said.