The COSBY Show spin-off A Different World is getting a reboot.
A new series set decades after the events of A Different World is in development at Netflix.
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A Different World ran from 1987 to 1993 and followed a group of students and friends at the fictional, historically black university, Hillman College.
The sitcom was a spin-off of The Cosby Show and initially followed Lisa Bonnet’s character Denise Huxtable, who was the daughter of Bill Cosby’s Dr. Heathcliff ‘Cliff’ Huxtable.
However, Lisa only remained on the show for the first series, after which her co-star Jasmine Guy, who played Whitley Gilbert, became the show’s main female character. She starred alongside Kadeem Hardison, who played Dwayne Wayne.
Dawnn Lewis, Darryl M. Bell, Cree Summer, Charnele Brown, Glynn Turman, Sinbad and Lou Myers completed the sitcom’s central cast.
As the series progressed, Whitley and Dwayne developed a romantic relationship that led to them getting married and Whitley discovering she was pregnant in the penultimate episode.
It appears the characters had more children off-screen after the series ended and Netflix’s upcoming spin-off will follow their youngest daughter as she heads off to Hillman College.
However, it is still unclear whether Jasmine and Kadeem will also have cameos in the single-camera spin-off show.
Not much else has been confirmed in terms of plot for the upcoming spin-off, but viewers can expect it to tackle similar issues as its predecessor, such as race and class relations, sexual assault, and equal rights, that The Cosby Show typically avoided. .
The sequel will be written by Grey’s Anatomy and Bel-Air reboot writer Felicia Pride.
It will also feature several members of the original show’s creative team. Among them are producer and director Debbie Allen, Tom Werner (whose company Carsey-Werner produced A Different World) and writers Reggie Rock Bythewood and Gina Prince-Bythewood. They will all serve as executive producers on the project, along with Felicia and Mandy Summers.
The sequel to A Different World has been in various stages of development over the years, but was halted by the legal issues surrounding disgraced Cosby Show star and creator Bill Cosby, who was found guilty of sexual assault in 2018.
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No cast for the proposed sequel to A Different World has been announced.
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