The team behind The Conners is preparing another family comedy for ABC.
30.01.2021 - 01:33 / deadline.com
The Wonder Years reboot has been picked up to pilot by ABC alongside two other comedy projects.
The reboot of the classic 1980s family comedy drama was handed a pilot production commitment last summer and is now set to shoot its pilot this spring.
It will be set in the same era as the original, looking at how a black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama in the turbulent late 1960s made sure it was The Wonder Years for them too.
The new iteration comes from Dave exec producer Saladin
The team behind The Conners is preparing another family comedy for ABC.
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Lee Daniels, reboots the classic show with a Black family. ET learned in July that the potential new comedy series would follow «how a Black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama, in the turbulent late 1960s (the same era as the original series), made sure it was 'The Wonder Years' for them too.»The original series, starring Fred Savage, Danica McKellar, Josh Saviano, Jason Hervey, Dan Lauria, Alley Mills and Olivia d'Abo, aired on ABC from 1988 to 1993.
The Wonder Years is set to return to television screens via US broadcast network ABC.According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show is one of three comedies to receive pilot orders from the Disney-backed network, with the new show set to feature an entirely new cast of characters in a different setting.The new show will focus on the lives of a Black middle-class family in Alabama in the late 1960s, in contrast to the white family depicted in the original series that first aired on ABC in March
ABC is moving forward with its’ Wonder Years reboot.
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