Four days before ABC’s upfront presentation, the network has made its first new scripted series pickups for the 2021-22 season with nods to music-themed drama Queens, and comedies The Wonder Years, Maggie and Abbott Elementary.Queens, headlined by Brandy, Eve, Naturi Naughton, Nadine Velazquez and Pepi Sonuga, and the Wonder Years reboot, from Saladin Patterson, the original series’ Fred Savage and Lee Daniels, emerged as frontrunners at the script stage and remained strong during casting, production as well as screening and testing of the finished pilots.Quinta Brunson’s Abbott Elementary also was an early standout while Maggie Mull and Justin Adler’s Maggie, headlined by Rebecca Rittenhouse, proved a textbook dark horse, staying largely
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