Lee Daniels The Wonder Years Reboot Gets Pilot Order at ABC Featuring Black Family People 1/31/2021
The Wonder Years is getting a reboot!
The beloved coming-of-age comedy that aired from 1988 to 1993 has received a pilot order at ABC featuring a Black family living in Alabama, according to
THR reported of the show s description.
Empire co-creator Lee Daniels is executive producing the reboot along with comedian Saladin K. Patterson (
The Big Bang Theory, Frasier), who will also pen the script. Original series co-creator Neal Marlens is attached as a consultant, while Fred Savage, who starred in the original series as Kevin Arnold, will also executive produce and direct the pilot.
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The Hollywood Reporter, ABC has officially ordered a pilot for a Lee Daniels-produced take on
The Wonder Years.
The project joins two others an untitled multicamera comedy written by Regina Hicks and executive produced by Viola Davis and Larry Wilmore, as well as the single-cam comedy
Maggie, which is based on the Tim Curcio short film of the same name as potential series pick-ups.
Airing for six seasons, from 1988 to 1993, the original
Wonder Years was created by Neal Marlens and Carol Black and told the story of the Arnold family a White, middle-class clan living in the suburbs as it navigated the turbulent times of the late 1960s and early 70s. The show starred Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold, the family s teenage son, as well as Danica McKellar and Josh Saviano as his friends, Winnie Cooper and Paul Pfeiffer.
Throwback Thursday is a weekly article in which we look back at our favorite TV episodes from the past.
What better way to have a Throwback Thursday than to feature a show that’s exactly about memories and recalling the past, as it is The Wonder Years, and even more if we review a theme episode of this time of the year. But before getting into the episode’s business, let’s have a refresh about the show in general. The Wonder Years ran through 115 episodes, divided in 6 seasons, from 1988 to 1993 and was created by Neal Marlens and Carol Black. It was a coming of age story centered on Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage), a kid growing up in an American suburb, in the late 60’s and early 70’s, and the stories of his family and friends, narrated by Kevin himself (with Daniel Stern’s voice) in his mid thirties, 20 years later.