ABC is reviving TheWonderYears
co-creator Lee Daniels for a reboot of the coming-of-age comedy nearly 30 years since it wrapped its six-season run — only this time, it will feature a Black family.
The comedy has received a sizable pilot-production commitment and will open a mini writers room once the network approves the script. The goal, per sources, is for the newWhile the original series starred Fred Savage and revolved around a white middle-class family in the 1960s suburbs, the Disney-owned network's new take focuses on how a Black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama, in the turbulent late '60s made sure it was "the wonder years" for them, too.
Comedy veteran Saladin K. Patterson will pen the script and exec produce alongside Daniels and his Lee Daniels Entertainment banner president Marc Velez. Original series co-creator Neal Marlens is attached as a consultant. Savage, who broke out withand has maintained a long career in Hollywood, will also exec produce and direct.
Sources say Daniels, Velez, Patterson and Savage brought the idea directly to ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke, who previously singled outas one of the programs that made her want to work in television. Savage and Patterson are close friends, with the former havingThe potential series is produced via Disney-owned 20th Century Fox Television, where Daniels and Savage are both under overall deals.which had production on its final season cut short by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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