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Lend your ears, and they’ll give you three comedy pilots. According to Variety, ABC picked up the previously revealed Wonder Years reload from executive producer Lee Daniels. The new series, announced in July, will investigate how “a black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama in the turbulent late 1960s made sure that these were also the miracle years for them.” Fred Savage, the star of the original period comedy, which followed the Arnold family from 1968 to 1973, will produce the CEO and lead director. Saladin Patterson will write the launch, as well as the EP.
The network also has another comedy pilot with a single camera, Maggie, by Maggie Mull and Justin Adler, based on a short film by Tim Curcio. The show follows a young woman as she ‘tries to cope with life while realizing her abilities as a psychic person’. A third, untitled multi-cam pilot, featuring ‘three former sisters who lost contact after university and were reunited at an important point in their lives’, will be written by Regina Hicks and executive produced by Viola Davis , Julius Tennon and Larry Wilmore.