A reboot The Wonder Years is coming to ABC! Wednesday, Variety reported that the next 30 minutes of the comedy will focus on a middle-class Black family navigating life in Montgomery, AL, during the decade of the 1960s — the same time period represented in the original sample, which was established between 1968 and 1973. After ABC approved a pilot script, a mini writer’s waiting room open.
Saladin K. Patterson will write and executive produce along with Lee Daniels and Marc Velez, who executive produced by Lee Daniels Entertainment. Meanwhile, Neal Marlens — the cocreator of the original series, will serve as a consultant, and Fred Savage will direct the pilot and executive produce. The original Wonder Years — which is available to stream on Hulu — ran from 1988 to 1993, during six seasons, with Wild as the starring Kevin, the youngest son of the Arnold family. As a young (fictional) man once said: of course, we could be holding the things that were and wondering what is to come. But maybe it’s time to let go of what had been and look ahead to what will be.
