Norman Lear Sitcoms ‘All in the Family,’ ‘The Jeffersons’ Being Eyed by Sony for Reboots

variety.com ^ | December 16, 2016 | 07:00PM PT | Senior TV Reporter Daniel Holloway

[Red Badger]

Sony Pictures Television is in very early stages of rebooting several classic sitcoms from TV legend Norman Lear as miniseries — including “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons,” and “Good Times” — Variety has learned exclusively.

The idea currently being discussed by Lear and Sony executives would be to have new actors recreate classic episodes of the shows, working from the original scripts, and package them as short, six-episode anthologies. The scripts would be treated similar to plays being mounted in new productions.

“There is some talk about doing some of the original shows, redoing them with today’s stars,” Lear told Variety. “There is a possibility that we’ll do ‘All in the Family,’ ‘Maude,’ ‘The Jeffersons,’ “Good Times.'”

Discussions about remaking more of Lear’s catalogue come as Sony gears up for the premiere of the new “One Day at a Time,” which re-imagines Lear’s ’80s sitcom about a single mother raising two children. The new series, which premieres on Netflix Jan. 6, focuses on a Latino family with a female Army veteran at its center.

Lear serves as executive producer on the new “One Day at a Time,” with original scripts coming from the show’s writing staff and showrunners Gloria Calderon-Kellett and Mike Royce, with contributions from Lear.

Sony has been in discussions with Lear about the miniseries-reboot concept since before development began on “One Day at a Time.” That series was developed specifically for Netflix, and was never shopped to other buyers. No network or streaming service is yet attached to the miniseries projects.

The miniseries project is a separate idea from the possible “All in the Family” reboot that Lear discussed two years ago at a Paley Center event, which would have seen the show revived with new characters, possibly Latino. That idea was set aside in favor of the new “One Day at a Time.”

“We’re exploring it,” Glenn Adilman, executive vice president of comedy development for Sony told Variety. “It’s sort of tricky to figure out what the business of that is and what that would be and how it would work. But its something we’re trying to figure out.”

Adilman added, “It’s tricky for a lot of reasons, and it’s something we’re exploring.”

Sony controls most of Lear’s TV library through its 1985 acquisition of the producer’s Embassy Communications.

[TomGuy]

That would be like trying to reboot I Love Lucy.

After she split with Desi, even she had only semi-success in her later two comedy series.

Some things are identified as classic for a reason.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Ax]

I’ll watch some of these IF I can FF through the commercials.

[Rome2000]

I wouldn’t mind seeing a remake of the Jeffersons with an all white redneck cast.

[Red Badger]

There was a Saturday morning kids’ show called Gilligan’s Planet.................

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan’s_Planet

[philled]

“Fab-U-lous!!” just isn’t as catchy as “Dyn-O-mite!!!”

[Red Badger]

There was a show just like that.

Can’t remember the title, though.

Stereotypes were awful..............

[cyclotic]

You win.

[TomGuy]

The new series, which premieres on Netflix Jan. 6, focuses on a Latino family with a female Army veteran at its center.

And therein is the very reason most remakes do to take -- the producers/writers PC the characters and themes.

[vladimir998]

Lear told Variety. “There is a possibility that we’ll do ‘All in the Family,’ ‘Maude,’ ‘The Jeffersons,’ “Good Times.’”... “One Day at a Time,”

Dear God, make it stop.

Can’t anyone in Hollywood come up with a NEW IDEA or something that at least isn’t a reboot???

And ENOUGH with the Comic Book Super Hero movies for crying out loud!

[pfflier]

Here's another jerk libtard that just needs to stay gone. Norman lear led a one man crusade to undermine the moral values of our country and used TV shows as his soap box.

Nothing good can come out of the founder of "people for the American way" getting the spotlight again.

[Red Badger]

Yes, that was in the spin-off show..............

[ColdOne]

Thanks for info.

[dfwgator]

The original George Jefferson was a Republican.

[wally_bert]

I’ve caught a few Maude reruns on one of the retro channels.

I was a kid when it ran initially so most of what Beach Arthur was for didn’t register.

Now armed with some sense, Maude is at best absurd.

I forgot that Mr. Drummond was in it.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I don’t know about Archie and Mike. I’m betting on Frank Lorenzo.

[wally_bert]

Gilligan’s Planet flopped as a cartoon a few decades ago.

[Salamander]

Norman Lear is a flaming left wing moonbat.

*This* is why they’re talking about bringing these shows back *now*

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/norman-lear-trump-archie-bunker-223875

All of those shows served the purpose of portraying conservatives as mouth breathing, bigoted xenophobes, worthy of mockery and scorn.

In fact, do you know what channel carries All In The Family reruns, now?

The fag channel, LOGO.

All the homos watch this stuff as ‘hipster irony’.

This is just another front in the ever-accelerating war against conservatives.

Lear is a subversive maggot.

[Red Badger]

Yes, and that’s not kosher today.................

[HamiltonJay]

All in the Family? If they actually put a show with a conservative mouthpiece mocking the looney left snowflakes on TV this Fall, Trump would be getting the biggest win in modern media... because there is no way there would ever even think of letting that happen if Hillary had won.