The Surprise Years Reboot With Black Household Within the Works At ABC

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The Surprise Years is getting the reboot therapy. 

ABC has handed out a pilot manufacturing dedication to a brand new iteration of the hit comedy-drama, which might deal with a Black household. 

Empire co-creator Lee Daniels is shepherding the half-hour challenge for the community.

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It will be set within the late 1960s — the identical period as the unique sequence — and targeted on a Black middle-class household in Montgomery, Alabama. 

Fred Savage, who toplined the unique 1988-93 sequence will work on the brand new interation, and can function director of the pilot. 

Savage will even exec-produce together with Daniels and Saladin Ok. Patterson. The latter is best-known for his work on Psych and Dave. 

Patterson additionally serves as the author of the pilot. 

Neal Marlens, who co-created the unique sequence, can also be on board as a marketing consultant for the subsequent era of the sequence. 

With ABC giving the challenge a pilot manufacturing dedication, it means the primary hurdle is the pilot script. If the community likes the script, it’s going to transfer ahead with a writers room with the attention of manufacturing a full season of episodes. 

ABC is considered one of many networks counting on reboots over the past a number of years. It efficiently revived Roseanne, which later spun off into The Conners. 

NYPD Blue and New York Undercover had been each within the works final season, however didn’t clinch a proper pickup after their pilots didn’t are available in addition to anticipated. 

This season, ABC tried out a sequels to thirtysomething and Revenge, however each had been stopped of their tracks as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. 

The Surprise Years was a roaring success throughout its unique run, with Savage changing into the youngest actor ever nominated for an Emmy as Lead Actor in a Comedy Collection.

The sequence earned 22 awards and 76 nominations all through its run. 

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Paul Dailly is the Affiliate Editor for TV Fanatic. Observe him on Twitter.

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