The Wonder Years has found its new Kevin Arnold. Elisha “EJ” Williams has been tapped to star as Dean, the new Kevin in ABC’s The Wonder Years single-camera comedy reboot pilot, from Dave exec producer Saladin Patterson, Fred Savage and Empire co-creator Lee Daniels.Savage, who played Kevin in the original dramedy series, has officially passed the torch to a new generation.
You can watch of clip of Savage and Patterson delivering the good news to Williams below.Written by Patterson and directed by Savage, the reboot of the classic 1980s family comedy-drama is set in the same era as the original.
It looks at how the Williamses, a Black middle-class family in Montgomery, AL, in the turbulent late 1960s made sure it was the Wonder Years for
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