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LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – A reboot of “The Wonder Years” has landed a pilot production commitment at ABC.

“The Wonder Years” is getting an update ideally in time for the 2021-2022 television season.

The Wonder Years is coming back.

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.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVABC has handed a pilot production commitment to The Wonder Years, a new iteration of the network’s 1980s family comedy-drama. It comes from Dave executive producer Saladin K.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterA 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.

The Wonder Years reimagining is in the works at ABC, Us Weekly has learned.The network has picked up a pilot for the half-hour comedy, produced by 20th Century Fox, which will focus on a middle-class Black family in Montgomery, Alabama, in the turbulent late 1960s — the same era as the original series — and how they “made sure it was The Wonder Years for them too.”Empire cocreator and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lee Daniels will serve as Executive Producer, along with writer and producer Saladin

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Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterParamount Pictures has scooped up the first feature film from director Lee Daniels in nearly a decade, “The United States vs. Billie Holiday.”Sold by Endeavor Content in an eight-figure deal out of Cannes’ big-spending virtual market, the project follows the dramatic true story of the Federal Department of Narcotics targeting the jazz legend with a sting operation.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Another major sale coming out of the Virtual Cannes Market. Paramount Pictures has won North American rights to The United States Vs.

As the Virtual Cannes Market heads into its final days, the majors have begun to flex their monetary muscle, with MGM closing a deal for remaining international territories on Endeavor Content's hotly-anticipated Bill & Ted sequel and several studios vying for the Will Smith/Antoine Fuqua escaped slave actioner Emancipation, which is expected to close a high eight-figure worldwide deal before Virtual Cannes wraps up.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Ruth Wilson (The Affair), Cush Jumbo (The Good Fight), and Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) are in negotiations to star in Greatest Days, the film adaptation of the hit stage musical The Band, about record-breaking UK pop group Take That.Sierra/Affinity has come on board to handle international sales on the film and will be introducing it for the first time at this week’s Cannes virtual market.