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Sony Looking To Reboot Norman Lear Sitcoms ‘The Jeffersons,’ Good Times’ And Others

<p>It looks like Sony and television writer&sol;producer Norman Lear may be looking to reboot some of his classic television shows&comma; such as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Jeffersons&comma;” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Good Times&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to<em><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;variety&period;com&sol;2016&sol;tv&sol;news&sol;norman-lear-all-in-the-family-jeffersons-reboots-1201944546&sol;"> Variety<&sol;a><&sol;em>&comma; Sony is currently gearing up to premiere the revival of his 1980’s sitcom&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;One Day At A Time&comma;” for Netflix&period; The show follows a single mother who is raising two children&period; The show originally aired in 1975&comma; and ended in 1984&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now the talks of bringing back his other classic shows have come about&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; Lear and Sony executives would be more interested in recreating classic episodes from the shows&comma; while working with the original scripts&comma; and presenting them as a short six-episode series&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lear said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There is some talk about doing some of the original shows&comma; redoing them with today’s stars&period; There is a possibility that we’ll do &OpenCurlyQuote;All in the Family&comma;’ &OpenCurlyQuote;Maude&comma;’ &OpenCurlyQuote;The Jeffersons&comma;’ &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Good Times&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The mini-series reboot discussions started to occur prior to the development of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;One Day At A Time&comma;” for Netflix&period; However&comma; the remake of that particular series was made just for Netflix&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At the time&comma; there are no other streaming services attached to the miniseries projects that are up for discussion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Glenn Adilman&comma; executive vice president of comedy development for Sony also said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re exploring it&period; It’s sort of tricky to figure out what the business of that is and what that would be and how it would work&period; 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