Dulé Hill and Laura Kariuki are joining the cast in the ABC reboot of The Wonder Years.
What’s Happening:
- Deadline has reported that both Dulé Hill (Psych, Muppet Babies) and Laura Kariuki (Black Lightning) have been cast to star in the reboot of ABC’s The Wonder Years.
- Dulé Hill will play Bill Williams, a music professor and Dean’s dad, played by Elisha Williams.
- Laura Kariuki will play confident and popular Kim Williams, Dean’s sister. Her parents have her preparing for college as she starts to rebel.
About “The Wonder Years”
- Set in the same time frame as the original, this reboot will follow a black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama in the late 1960s, and how they made sure it was “The Wonder Years” for themselves too.
- The Wonder Years reboot is being written by Saladin Patterson (Dave) and directed by Fred Savage, who played Kevin Arnold in the original 1980s series.
- Patterson and Savage are also executive producers alongside Lee Daniels (Empire) and Marc Velez, with the co-creator of the original series, Neal Marlens, onboard as a consultant.
- The new series from 20th Television is planned to be a single-camera comedy.
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