Posted on 07/08/2020 11:56:34 AM PDT by EdnaMode
A reboot of “The Wonder Years” has landed a pilot production commitment at ABC.
The new half-hour comedy series would focus on how a black middle class family in Montgomery, Alabama in the turbulent late 1960’s made sure it was The Wonder Years for them too. That puts the new show in the same time period as the original series, which was set between 1968 and 1973. A mini writer’s room for the show will be opened once ABC approves a pilot script.
Saladin K. Patterson will write and executive produce. Lee Daniels and Marc Velez will executive produce via Lee Daniels Entertainment. Fred Savage, the star of the original series, will direct the pilot and executive produce. Neal Marlens, the co-creator of the original series, will serve as consultant. 20th Century Fox Television will produce, with both Patterson and Daniels currently under overall deals at the studio.
The original “Wonder Years” aired from 1988 to 1993 on ABC for six seasons and over 100 episodes. It focused on the Arnold family, with Savage playing youngest child Kevin. Daniel Stern provided the voice of Kevin as an adult, looking back on his childhood growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The show was well-received by audiences and critics. Over the course of its run, it received a Peabody Award, multiple Humanitas Prizes, four Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe.
Patterson most recently worked as a writer and executive producer on the FXX comedy “Dave.” Prior to that, he was the showrunner on the TBS comedy series “The Last OG.” His other TV credits include “The Big Bang Theory,” “Two and a Half Men,” “Psych,” “The Bernie Mac Show,” and “Frasier.”
Daniels is a celebrated filmmaker, having received two Oscar nominations for his film “Precious.” His other films include “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” and the upcoming feature “The United States vs. Billie Holiday.” On the TV side, he is known for co-creating the Fox dramas “Empire” and “Star.”
In addition to his acting work, Savage has become a sought-after TV director in recent years. His directing credits include multiple episodes of shows like “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “The Conners,” “Modern Family,” “The Goldbergs,” and “2 Broke Girls.”
I’m just glad that I don’t watch tv.
Why not with an Asian family? or a Indian family? or a latino family?.........................
Does Daniel Stern still get to narrate??
That’s good! Anything that celebrates family again.
Will this be based in a ghetto somewhere?
What the entertainment world does not understand is that just because it is a black show or just because it is a white show is not the reason for success.
Most of the shows, both black and white, have been horrible, unwatchable, nonsensical and just plain bad.
Get some new talent in the Producing, Directing and most important Writing field...then we’ll talk.
This one sounds like a loser to me.
There’s a skit from the Dave Chappelle show about a white family named the N-word (It was spelled differently than the offensive term). The family employed all the mannerisms of your stereotypical black person. I literally died watching it.
Patience...
If Fred Savage is part of it does that mean Marilyn Manson gets to return too?
Err...the producer is named “Saladin” Patterson, so I think there’s only one thing that matters to him...and it’s not artistic quality.
“...This one sounds like a loser to me. ...”
When it loses they’ll blame it on racism. Rather then as you said “horrible, unwatchable, nonsensical and just plain bad “ and another example of Hollyweird’s abandonment of creativity.
On each episode, someone gets shot in a drive by
Why not with a Vietnamese refugee family starting with life in Vietnam as the North Vietnamese seek to take over?
What’s sad is that I grew up watching and loving all kinds of black entertainment, all on my own. All of this racism nonsense has us going backwards now, and it’s of Satan because there is no redemption in it. Just wrath and resentment, which only the Lord Jesus can save a man from.
Joseph was a REAL slave, treated unjustly. He was certainly a typology of Christ, but he was also a witness of how a man who knew God could come up roses and be a blessing even to those that spitefully a used him (his brothers, Potiphar’s wife, etc.)!
I’m sure there will be lots of SJW “teachable moments”.
Would it be terrible to call this a reboot of “Good Times”?
Dynomite!
That would be DY-NO-MITE!!!
Seperate But Equal television.
We went from Winnie to Washanda now?
Best black show in my opinion was Family Matters. Loved it.
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