'The Wonder Years' Reboot Featuring Black Family a Go at ABC - Hollywood Reporter

The Wonder Years is returning to ABC.

The network is teaming with Empire co-creator Lee Daniels for a reboot of the coming-of-age comedy nearly 30 years since it wrapped its six-season run — only this time, it will feature a Black family.

The goal, per sources, is for the new Wonder Years to be developed for the 2021-22 television season.

While the original series starred Fred Savage and revolved around a white middle-class family in the 1960s suburbs, the Disney-owned network's new take focuses on how a Black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama, in the turbulent late '60s made sure it was "the wonder years" for them, too.

Original series co-creator Neal Marlens is attached as a consultant.

Sources say Daniels, Velez, Patterson and Savage brought the idea directly to ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke, who previously singled out The Wonder Years as one of the programs that made her want to work in television.

The potential series is produced via Disney-owned 20th Century Fox Television, where Daniels and Savage are both under overall deals!

Savage most recently directed multiple episodes of ABC's Single Parents, The Conners and Modern Family and hosted/created the Fox summer series What Just Happened?.

The network has maintained a critically acclaimed comedy brand that features family fare that represents communities that have traditionally been underserved on television, with series including Black-ish, the recently wrapped Fresh Off the Boat and, to a lesser extent, The Conners, which focuses on the working class.

Savage at 13 also became the youngest actor ever nominated for a lead actor in a comedy series Emmy in 1988

The Wonder Years has its original co-creator, the blessing and involvement of its star and the original studio (20th TV).