Posted on 04/19/2019 9:49:20 AM PDT by conservative98
"All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" are coming back to TV, live and for one night only.
Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Jamie Foxx and Wanda Sykes will star in re-creations of episodes from the influential sitcoms born in the 1970s.
Norman Lear, who created "All in the Family" and its spinoff "The Jeffersons," and Jimmy Kimmel are hosting the ABC prime-time special airing next month, the network said Thursday.
Harrelson and Tomei will play Archie and Edith Bunker, with Foxx and Sykes as George and Louise Jefferson. Ellie Kemper, Justina Machado and Will Ferrell also will appear, ABC said, with more stars to be announced.
The original shows starred Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton as the blue-collar Bunkers, and Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford as the upwardly mobile Jeffersons.
People say "these two shows were meant for the '70s and would not work today," Lear said in a statement. "We disagree with them and are here to prove, with two great casts depicting 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons,' the timelessness of human nature."
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Because, well, we’re just plain out of new ideas in Hollywood.
Wanda Sykes: I’m out.
That is going to be painful to watch.
And then, we will have to live through the inevitable re-boot, limited series.
Ugh.
might actually be worth watching
Must See TV? I think not!
Yeah.
Can’t wait to see the PC version of Archie.
Ditto.
No thanks.
Norman Lear said that the character of George Jefferson was a Republican.
PASS
The only one I like is Tomei
The other 3 are insufferable jack@sses.
Just a con to keep PC alive they know it’s dead.
She was kinda funny...until she went lesbian.
Crappy shows which replaced fun shows.
Yep, All in the Family started right at the time of the “Rural Purge”.
Isabel Sanford was iconic in the role.
So why not George as Archie?
Actually, one of the best scenes in All in the Family, was when Lionel Jefferson basically called out Meathead for being a phony liberal.
Norman Lear intended Meathead and Gloria to be the ‘stars’ of the show, to push liberal ideas onto America.
It drove him crazy that no matter how they wrote the scripts, they could not make America like them...............
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