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Lee Daniels, Saladin K Patterson, Fred Savage, and Marc Velez serve as executive producers The series is produced by 20th Television, a part of Disney Television Studios. While the jury is still out on the future of the drama The Rookie: Feds, the sitcom Home Economics, and the drama pilot for The Good Lawyer, the[...]

The first look teaser starts off with the familiar evocation of the Joe Cocker cover of the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends" showing off Dean's bicycle wheels before crediting executive producers Saladin Patterson, Fred Savage, and Lee Daniels Savage was the star of the original series. (ABC/Erika Doss) DULƒ HILL, SAYCON SENGBLOH, LAURA[...]

The reboot will retain the single-camera format for its pilot and comes from Saladin Patterson, Lee Daniels, Marc Velez, and Savage, who all serve as executive producers for 20th Television. Image courtesy of DFree – Shutterstock.com/ABC With Patterson writing with Savage directing the pilot, the new Wonder Years, set in the same era as the original, focuses on[...]

A little more than a month after Lee Daniels (Empire), writer Saladin Patterson (Dave), original series co-creator Neal Marlens, and original star Fred Savage learned that their reboot of The Wonder Years had received a pilot order from ABC, Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Saycon Sengbloh (In the Dark) has been cast in a lead role[...]

Lee Daniels (Empire), writer Saladin Patterson (Dave), and original series co-creator Neal Marlens and star Fred Savage are one step closer to bringing The Wonder Years back to ABC, with the network announcing a pilot order on Friday The reboot of the popular coming-of-age comedy will focus on how a Black middle-class family in late[...]

Lee Daniels (Empire), writer Saladin Patterson (Frasier, The Bernie Mac Show, The Big Bang Theory), and original series co-creator Neal Marlens and star Fred Savage are teaming up to bring The Wonder Years back to ABC The reboot of the popular coming-of-age comedy will focus on how a Black middle-class family in late 1960s Montgomery,[...]

Meanwhile, Becky struggles with balancing her personal and professional relationships and Hakeem and Maya find themselves in a less-than-ideal situation after a drunken night in Vegas From Imagine Television in association with 20th Century Fox Television, and created by Academy Award nominee Lee Daniels and Emmy Award winner Danny Strong, Empire stars Terrence DaShon Howard as[...]

Approximately a month after FOX renewed Lee Daniels and Danny Strong's music industry drama Empire for a sixth and final season, Daniels is finally putting to rest rumors that controversial cast member Jussie Smollett's character Jamal Lyon would join the series' final run Taking to Twitter on Tuesday to respond to a Variety article that reported show[...]

Good People is being developed by Empire co-creator Lee Daniels and Whitney Cummings, who co-created 2 Broke Girls on CBS. Lisa KudrowPhoto by DFree / Shutterstock.com Good People is also being produced by Amazon Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios. Cummings and Daniels are currently writing the pilot, which revolves around the Ombudsman's office at a liberal arts[...]

Less than 24 hours after Empire actor Jussie Smollett was released on $100,000 bond after being arrested Thursday morning on multiple felony charges stemming from an alleged assault in late January 2019, the executive producers of the popular FOX series have made the decision to remove his character Jamal from the remainder of the series'[...]

North Water Street. FOX Smollett was assaulted by the two men, who proceeded to pour "an unknown chemical substance" on him and put a rope around Smollett's neck before fleeing the scene. Smollett was able to make his way to an area hospital and was described as being in "good condition" at the time of this writing. Portraying the character[...]

The three 20th Century Fox TV projects include: Our People, a comedy from Lee Daniels and Modern Family executive producer Vali Chandrasekaran; Rel, a comedy starring Lil Rey Howery and executive produced by Jerrod Carmichael; and musical drama Mixtape, from former Smash showrunner Josh Safran For Fox Entertainment President Michael Thorn, this will mark the first official[...]

Everyone wants a connected universe and now Fox is adding one to their line-up as they move their two Lee Daniels' music dramas to airing back-to-back this fall But it's more than just Empire and Star are going to air the same night, the network has announced a special two-episode crossover event this fall The[...]