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 1960s 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 writers 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 Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Conners, Modern Family, The Goldbergs, and 2 Broke Girls.
This would be the position George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks were born to play, to bad they choose poorly and aren’t among the living.
Can we reboot Good Times with a white family?
The Jeffersons?
How about Blackish?
Black...white...blue...green...couldn’t care less.
They can do whatever they want but don’t use the name “The Wonder Years”. They need to try to be just a little bit original lol.
A remake of The Beverly Hillbillies with the Clampets as a black family would get much higher ratings.
GTMA!
That skit was made 20 years ago. No way that he would had made it today.
The Cosby Show was great in its day. But that is why they went after Cosby so hard on the sex abuse charges. He was acting too white.
Will Bill Cosby be hired as a Consultant?
Next: a black man playing superman.
Then: a black playing George Washington
Pelosi will be played by AOC in an upcoming made-for-TV movie.
I’m not being racist; just observing the madness that’s taking hold in America.
It will probably be a reboot of Amos and Andy as gay transvestites with adopted non gender specific children.
Will it be called “Good Times”?
Whoops! Already done that.
Chapelle did some hilarious stuff back then. If a white guy did the same thing cities would burn.
Just invert the luminance and bring back All in the Family.
“In Living Color”
Men on Film
Damon Wayans
David Alan Grier...
with teenagers!
The father gets arrested for selling crack, the mother has 6 kids by 6 guys and is on welfare and Jamal got new shoes by looting a Foot Locker.
I get the feel this is going to be that. Lots of 'they just wanted to buy a car but nobody would talk to them' moments coming your way.
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