Saladin Patterson Archives

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 (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,[...]