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'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons' rebooted for one-night event at ABC
NBC 4 Washington ^ | Published Apr 19, 2019 at 3:24 AM | Lynn Elber

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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KEYWORDS: abc; allinthefamily; archiebunker; jeffersons; marisatomei; willferrell; woodyharrelson
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1 posted on 04/19/2019 9:49:20 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Because, well, we’re just plain out of new ideas in Hollywood.


2 posted on 04/19/2019 9:51:13 AM PDT by trad_anglican
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To: conservative98

Wanda Sykes: I’m out.


3 posted on 04/19/2019 9:52:04 AM PDT by o-n-money
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To: conservative98

That is going to be painful to watch.

And then, we will have to live through the inevitable re-boot, limited series.

Ugh.


4 posted on 04/19/2019 9:52:49 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If we get Medicare for all, will we have to show IDs for service?)
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To: conservative98

might actually be worth watching


5 posted on 04/19/2019 9:52:58 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: conservative98

Must See TV? I think not!


6 posted on 04/19/2019 9:53:38 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Bill Barr:The Bill Belichick of Attorneys General)
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To: HangnJudge

Yeah.


7 posted on 04/19/2019 9:53:46 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Can’t wait to see the PC version of Archie.


8 posted on 04/19/2019 9:53:47 AM PDT by ex91B10
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To: o-n-money

Ditto.


9 posted on 04/19/2019 9:54:04 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: conservative98

No thanks.


10 posted on 04/19/2019 9:54:35 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ex91B10

Norman Lear said that the character of George Jefferson was a Republican.


11 posted on 04/19/2019 9:55:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: conservative98

PASS

The only one I like is Tomei

The other 3 are insufferable jack@sses.


12 posted on 04/19/2019 9:55:45 AM PDT by Conserv
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To: trad_anglican

Just a con to keep PC alive they know it’s dead.


13 posted on 04/19/2019 9:55:52 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: o-n-money
Wanda Sykes: I’m out.

She was kinda funny...until she went lesbian.

14 posted on 04/19/2019 9:56:12 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Bill Barr:The Bill Belichick of Attorneys General)
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To: conservative98

Crappy shows which replaced fun shows.


15 posted on 04/19/2019 9:56:13 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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Yep, All in the Family started right at the time of the “Rural Purge”.


16 posted on 04/19/2019 9:58:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: conservative98
Sykes as Weezy? Oh hell nah!

Isabel Sanford was iconic in the role.

17 posted on 04/19/2019 9:58:56 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Fake news lies, credibility dies.)
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To: conservative98; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
Marisa Tomei (as Edith)

So why not George as Archie?


18 posted on 04/19/2019 9:58:56 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: conservative98

Actually, one of the best scenes in All in the Family, was when Lionel Jefferson basically called out Meathead for being a phony liberal.


19 posted on 04/19/2019 10:00:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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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...............


20 posted on 04/19/2019 10:01:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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