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The Wonder Years being rebooted with a Black family by ABC
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:02 pm
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:02 pm
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I actually think this might be good and I like that Savage is directing/producing.
I actually think this might be good and I like that Savage is directing/producing.
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ABC is making a pilot for an updated version of The Wonder Years – the 1988 coming-of-age dramedy that ran for six seasons and starred Fred Savage as a middle-class suburban teenager growing up during the late 1960s and early '70s.
The revival will be set during the same time period, except it will focus on a Black family in Montgomery, Ala.
The show will be executive produced by Empire co-creator Lee Daniels, while Saladin K. Patterson (The Big Bang Theory) is the showrunner and original series co-creator Neal Marlens will be a consultant. Savage is on board as well, as a director and executive producer.
The official description for the show: "How a black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama in the turbulent late 1960’s, the same era as the original series, made sure it was The Wonder Years for them too."
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Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:07 pm to lsuwontonwrap
Seems like ground already covered.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:07 pm to lsuwontonwrap
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late 1960s and early '70s.
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a Black family in Montgomery, Ala.
Yikes
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:08 pm to Fewer Kilometers
I knew Heathcliff Huxtable's prescriptions weren't on the up and up...
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:11 pm to lsuwontonwrap
It will probably fall flat.. not bc of race but the time period... even as foreign as it seemed, the timeframe was only 20 years when I began watching the original.. I was also the same exact age as Kevin.. todays kids have absolutely no context to a time period 50+ years ago.. imagine, that’s pre ww2 for us that experienced the relevant time period of the original..
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:14 pm to Green Chili Tiger
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late 1960s and early '70s.
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a Black family in Montgomery, Ala.
More like, "here we go..
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Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:15 pm to lsuwontonwrap
Would have been cool before all of this lunacy....
Now, it will probably drip with BLM-driven agendas.
Now, it will probably drip with BLM-driven agendas.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:29 pm to lsuwontonwrap
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The Wonder Years being rebooted
Just make your own god damn show and call it whatever the hell you want. There's no need to remake old shows.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:31 pm to lsuwontonwrap
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the late 1960s and early '70s.
Close to the time period for Good Times. Which was very political for it's time.
The original Wonder Years had the corner on nostalgia, we've seen it replicated already with Everyone Hates Chris and other shows. They won't have that to fall back on.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:31 pm to lsuwontonwrap
This will be a show with great critical reception and low viewership.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 3:35 pm to lsuwontonwrap
More pandering. I'm not watching this.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 4:30 pm to TeddyPadillac
I’m going to remake Good Times with an all white cast. Set in the 70s and will follow the trials and tribulations of a suburban apartment building dwelling family living in Des Moines.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 4:32 pm to wareaglepete
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Set in the 70s and will follow the trials and tribulations of a suburban apartment building dwelling family living in Des Moines.
Will be the most boring show ever.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 4:34 pm to lsuwontonwrap
The Woker Years
Posted on 7/8/20 at 4:37 pm to rich4pres
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More pandering. I'm not watching this.
Was it pandering every single time this show was copied over the past 30 years, or is it pandering now because Twitter exists?
We "reboot" things because general public has repeatedly told networks that they won't watch new things and that established IPs are an easier sell. Having the name "The Wonder Years" or not, you've seen this show dozens of times before.
But we all appreciate your pointless virtue signaling.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 4:38 pm to bigman334
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well the alternative is shooting up schools
I would check that school shooting data again. You seem to have the wrong color written down in your notes.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 4:40 pm to lsuwontonwrap
So Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower to replace With a Little Help from My Friends?
Posted on 7/8/20 at 4:51 pm to Freauxzen
quote:Unfortunately, this might be true.
Would have been cool before all of this lunacy....
Now, it will probably drip with BLM-driven agendas.
It's a shame too, because I just finished a full re-watch. And the only thing I noticed "different" this time around was how conspicuously absent the topic of race was for the duration of the series.
The series had episodes about feminism, women's lib, war, politics, sex, divorce etc. But literally nothing about race. It's a glaring omission.
I hope with Savage involved this can be a strident effort at producing something good, but I'm worried. Of course, for a lot of people on this site, if it just showed any white racism, it will be "BLM-driven" stuff.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 4:55 pm to ThanosIsADemocrat
quote:Really? Where?
Seems like ground already covered.
Posted on 7/8/20 at 4:59 pm to Big Scrub TX
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The series had episodes about feminism, women's lib, war, politics, sex, divorce etc. But literally nothing about race. It's a glaring omission
You’re right and maybe it could have in a few episodes but the whole show was about white suburbia and the changes the 60’s brought to the idealistic innocence that the suburbs was supposed to provide..
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