Seeing the world through the eyes of kids during one of the most revolutionary times in US history proved to be quite a success story for the series The Wonder Years back in the late 1980s and made a household name out of its lead, then child star Fred Savage. It was a show that was representative of that era of TV and how it portrayed the world in an innocent and free-spirited manner that made it great family viewing back. Now we’ve all grown up and know better.
ABC wants to believe in those wonderful times once again and according to The Hollywood Reporter, the network is looking to reboot the series for a new audience. Lee Daniels, the director behind Precious and The Butler as well as the creator of popular TV series Empire, is behind this reboot which will now focus on a black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama in the late 1960s. Hopefully, this reboot will show how this period of history was a wonderful time for them too. Unfortunately, given the ongoing protests in the USA highlighting how little has changed for African-Americans in the past century, there are probably many that won’t agree with that sentiment. Hopefully, audiences will look to see where the show is going before judging.
Besides for Daniels, Savage is also involved as producer on this reboot. The erstwhile actor who has since gone on to be quite a successful TV series director having directed many episodes for shows like Boy Meets World, Even Stevens, Party Down, Modern Family, Happy Endings, The Connors, and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. He will also direct the pilot of this reboot off a script from Saladin K. Patterson (The Big Bang Theory, Dave, and Two and a Half Men).
It will honestly be interesting to see where this series goes from her. Will it try and portray a very innocent view of the world much like the original series or will it take note of the current political issues in the US and showcase some of the racial challenges experienced during that time and the impact of the human rights movement led by Martin Luther King had on the lives of so many black families?
Last Updated: July 9, 2020
Hammersteyn
July 9, 2020 at 16:01
2020 should get a reboot…. or just the boot.
Llama In The Rift
July 9, 2020 at 16:26
Did someone say boot?
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Hammersteyn
July 9, 2020 at 17:25
LOL!
Original Heretic
July 9, 2020 at 16:19
I’d like to give it a cup of shut the hell up and get back in yer hole!
And my gawd, the conspiracy theories out there…
“The magnetic poles have shifted nearly 10 degrees, that’s why everything is all messed up!”
Llama In The Rift
July 9, 2020 at 16:53
I read a funny one the other day…
“asteroids and comets are responsible for the diseases on Earth”
Me thinks it’s quite the opposite, hence why no asteroid wants anything to do with this planet.
Son of Banana Jim
July 9, 2020 at 16:20
Or a dropkick to the head.
Original Heretic
July 9, 2020 at 16:13
Oh man…
I’ll never forget that intro song. I loved it so much.
Only later did I discover that it was actually a Beatles cover.
Still preferred the series version!
Kervyn Cloete
July 9, 2020 at 17:08
This is my favourite version just for how utterly crazy Joe Cocker gets. His voice is so raw.
Original Heretic
July 9, 2020 at 18:34
Well it was Woodstock. Very good chance he was on, well, not something, EVERYTHING.
I love hearing the stories from the artists who performed there.
Carlos Santana’s story is one of my favourites.
Kervyn Cloete
July 10, 2020 at 08:23
LOL actually Cocker always “danced’ like that, right up well into his years. He claims that it’s coz he never learned to play any instrument properly, so it started with him badly pretending to air-guitar or air-piano and then just stuck.
Gavin Mannion
July 9, 2020 at 17:06
ALL the nostalgia
Son of Banana Jim
July 9, 2020 at 17:25
I reckon it’ll probably be like the short-lived Boy meets World reboot, which was about the daughter of the two main characters in Boy meets World (Ben Savage and Daniella Fischel)l. It was on Disney for a bit, and then it disappeared.
Iskape
July 10, 2020 at 09:14
Can the world handle innocence again? That’s the question I wonder about! So much in the 80s was clean, good hearted innocence. The world is in a different space today, so I don’t know if such a series would survive for too long! I mean even children’s programs nowadays have innuendos built into them. Many of them wouldn’t even fly in the 80s as a children’s program!
Iskape
July 10, 2020 at 09:14
Can the world handle innocence again? That’s the question I wonder about! So much in the 80s was clean, good hearted innocence. The world is in a different space today, so I don’t know if such a series would survive for too long! I mean even children’s programs nowadays have innuendos built into them. Many of them wouldn’t even fly in the 80s as a children’s program!
Kervyn Cloete
July 10, 2020 at 09:41
I love so much of the 80s purely for that optimism that infected everything back then. It just makes me so happy.