A Black Reboot of The Wonder Years (1960's Alabama) - ABC (Produced By Fred Savage & Lee Daniels)
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NZA
LOL
that friend paul is going to become trans and his dad will put him in a garbage can
coose
Pro
Came to add my disgust smh Lee Daniels
Vandelay
Life is absurd. Lean into it.
Why it gotta be a reboot tho?
That crrate unnecessary expectations before a scene is even filmed.
Just be inspired, write it and shoot it.
Drop it with a completely unrelated name.
Ill give it a spin but it gotta come out hot and not on someshyt
Why can't they create some shyt original. No need for it to be "The Wonder Years". Tired of this shyt man. Act like we can't have an original black show with original black characters.
OJ Simpsom
Superstar
So the 60's were wonder years for black people now
PortCityProphet
Follow me to the truth
So the 60's were wonder years for black people now
Hell yeah. Every year is a Wonder Year for a brotha, wonder if we gon see the next one
Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
shyt is all entertainment at the end of the day..... The Trans character in P Valley is entertaining(for example).... but if they add some gay shyt to this storyline...... A reboot of the Wonder Years featuring a black family during Jim Crow in Alabama....
The “agenda” argument is no longer debatable
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Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
:Hell yeah. Every year is a Wonder Year for a brotha, wonder if we gon see the next one
but 
Peter Popoff
Reps and negs nıgga🖕🏽
Lee Daniel's? Gtfoh
This time Kevin and Winny work out because of Paul
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The Wonder Years Reboot Casts Elisha Williams In Lead Role
March 15, 2021 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
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ABC’s reboot of The Wonder Years has found its new Kevin (or rather, Dean) in Elisha Williams. TV Line reports that Williams (Puppy Dog Pals) will play the lead role of Dean in the series, the analogue to Fred Savage’s Kevin in the original. Dean is described as “an inquisitive and hopeful 12-year-old [who] is trying to figure out his place within his Black family and the world at large, while coming of age in a turbulent time.” The official description of Dean adds, “Though a little insecure, a tad awkward and a bit self-conscious, he is determined to make his mark on the world around him.”
Savage, who is directing the pilot and is a co-executive producer, revealed the news to Williams alongside writer Saladin K. Patterson in a video call that was released online. You can see that below. Williams joins Saycon Sengbloh, who will play Dean’s mom Lillian, in the project.
The new series takes place in the 1960s like the original, set specifically in 1968 Montgomery, Alabama. The show centers on middle-class Williams family. The original show ran from 1988 through 1993 and was also set in 1968 to start, though the location of the Arnold family was never specified.
‘The Wonder Years’: Saycon Sengbloh To Star In ABC Reboot Pilot
March 4, 2021 9:00am
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EXCLUSIVE: The Wonder Years reboot has found its mom. Saycon Sengbloh (In the Dark) has been cast as a lead in the ABC single-camera comedy pilot from Dave exec producer Saladin Patterson, the original series’ star Fred Savage and Empire co-creator Lee Daniels.
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Written by Patterson and directed by Savage, the reboot of the classic 1980s family comedy-drama is set in the same era as the original. It looks at how the Williamses, a Black middle-class family in Montgomery, AL, in the turbulent late 1960s made sure it was the Wonder Years for them too.
Sengbloh will play Lillian Williams. Sharp as a tack, Lillian is confident, kind, perceptive and has a good sense of humor. She knows exactly the right thing to say to convince you of anything. As a mother, wife and full-time accountant, she’s organized, efficient and hard-working, but she always puts family first.
Patterson and Savage executive produce along with Daniels and Marc Velez via Lee Daniels Entertainment. The original series’ co-creator Neal Marlens serves as a consultant. 20th Television is the studio.
In the 1988-93 ABC series, the mom, Norma Arnold, was played by Allison Mills.
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Sengbloh recurs in the new OWN series Delilah. The actress-singer next will be seen in the Aretha Franklin feature biopic Respect headlined by Jennifer Hudson. She previously recurred on the CW drama In the Dark and on ABC’s Scandal. She also did an arc on ABC’s Ten Days in the Valley.
On stage, Sengbloh has starred in such Broadway and Off-Broadway productions as Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along with Wayne Brady, Motown the Musical, Holler If Ya Hear Me, Hair, The Color Purple, Wicked, Fela! and Aida. She earned a Tony nomination and won a Drama Desk Award and an Obie Award for her performance in Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed opposite Lupita Nyong’o. Sengbloh is repped by Stewart Talent and Untitled Entertainment.
