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PostPosted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 10:48 am 
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https://tvline.com/2019/04/18/all-in-th ... ZSWWnLG5xE

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If the phrase “Woody Harrelson as Archie Bunker” is at all up your alley, you’ve come to the right place. ABC is staging one-night-only revivals of two iconic Norman Lear sitcoms, All in the Family and The Jeffersons, Jimmy Kimmel announced during his show on Thursday.

Airing Wednesday, May 22 at 8/7c, the 90-minute live event stars Woody Harrelson and Marisa Tomei as All in the Family‘s Archie and Edith Bunker (originally played by Carroll O’Connor and Jean Stapleton), along with Ellie Kemper as Gloria Stivic (originally played by Sally Struthers).

The Jeffersons‘ portion of the special features Jamie Foxx and Wanda Sykes as George and Louise Jefferson (originally played by Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford), plus Will Ferrell as Tom Willis (originally played by Franklin Cover) and Justina Machado as Florence Johnston (originally played by Marla Gibbs).

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons will be hosted by Lear and Kimmel, and directed by the legendary James Burrows. Executive producers include Ferrell, Brent Miller, Adam McKay and Justin Theroux.

“They have said over and over again that these two shows were meant for the ’70s and would not work today. We disagree with them and are here to prove, with two great casts depicting All in the Family and The Jeffersons, the timelessness of human nature,” Lear said in a statement. “I cannot wait to see what these glorious performers make in our time of these indelible characters, and I couldn’t be more grateful for Jimmy Kimmel, Sony and ABC for their collective willingness to conceive and pursue this never-been-done-before event.”


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 11:15 am 
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so why is ABC recreating CBS shows?

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I can't picture Wanda Sykes being a very good Weezy.

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I'm having problems with Mark Wahlberg as the 6 Billion Dollar Man.

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It's going to be hilarious when the theme song to "All in the Family" triggers a protest and advertiser boycott because how dare you sing ".. girls were girls, and men were men..."

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It's going to be hilarious when the theme song to "All in the Family" triggers a protest and advertiser boycott because how dare you sing ".. girls were girls, and men were men..."


Woody never seems to age.

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I can't picture Wanda Sykes being a very good Weezy.


Last time I saw her(Sykes), she had a pretty nice rack. Qualification #1, check.

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Ogie Oglethorpe wrote:
It's going to be hilarious when the theme song to "All in the Family" triggers a protest and advertiser boycott because how dare you sing ".. girls were girls, and men were men..."


The disclaimers & warnings will be epic. I hope.

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Once again I am reminded of the Kennedy assassination.

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Gloria was possibly my least favorite character in the history of television.

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Gloria was possibly my least favorite character in the history of television.

She was definitely the weakest character of the regulars on the show. But I don't think she was the worst in tv history

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I can't picture Wanda Sykes being a very good Weezy.

She's tailor-fucking-made to be Florence ... shit-tier casting choice.

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Ogie Oglethorpe wrote:
so why is ABC recreating CBS shows?

Yeah, that's what stood out to me as a TV history nerd, that a show that was a cornerstone of CBS's image as the high-quality, risk-taking network...would be celebrated by ABC, a network whose lasting figures are Mickey Mouse and Urkel. Norman Lear and Mary Tyler Moore were both huge for CBS.

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"But Awwwwchie, if Michael says his preferred pronouns aw dey an dem, you have to respect dat!"
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Will Ferrell as Tom Willis is actually pretty good


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Previous episodes, or new Trump-bashing episodes like Murphy Brown?

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RFDC wrote:
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Gloria was possibly my least favorite character in the history of television.

She was definitely the weakest character of the regulars on the show. But I don't think she was the worst in tv history


I guess its just slight hyperbole as the little girl who played the robot in Small Wonder was much worse.

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Fox 32 used to run like two-hour blocks of Small Wonder reruns on Saturdays. After I moved, when I would tell people about this show, where the daughter is a robot and everything about the whole production just feels weird, other kids would say I was making it up and there was no such show because they'd never seen it.

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"But Awwwwchie, if Michael says his preferred pronouns aw dey an dem, you have to respect dat!"
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I can't help but read those in Jean Stapleton and Carrol O'Connor voices

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Holy shit this is terrible.

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Jamie Foxx looks just like Darkside

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Ogie Oglethorpe wrote:
Curious Hair wrote:
"But Awwwwchie, if Michael says his preferred pronouns aw dey an dem, you have to respect dat!"
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I can't help but read those in Jean Stapleton and Carrol O'Connor voices


Marisa Tomei has Jean Stapleton down pat.

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Are they just doing remakes of old episodes, or did they try to adapt for modern times?

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I thought that was kind of . . . awful.


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“All in the Family” came off as a high school project to recreate the show and fell flat.

“The Jeffersons” was awesome.

They were based on actual episodes.


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“All in the Family” came off as a high school project to recreate the show and fell flat.

“The Jeffersons” was awesome.

They were based on actual episodes.


This. But I enjoyed the hell out of them both. Both shows meant a lot to me as a kid and they brought back great memories.

Quietly, I always wanted to meet Carroll O'Cconnor.

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Damn it. We are having bad weather and the show was taken over by local weather. I hope I can find this online somewhere.

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My childhood celebrity crush was Ja'net Dubois. I don't know who that was doing the theme, but that was bad.

Jeffersons episode was good - I don't know if the All in the Family was just bad, or if it just needed someone more like Carroll O'Connor. Woody Harrelson isn't even close.


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