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Lend your ears to them and they will give you three future comedy pilots. According Variety, ABC took the previously revealed Wonderful years reboot of executive producer Lee Daniels. Announced in July, the new series will explore how “a middle-class black family in Montgomery, Alabama, in the turbulent late 1960s, made sure it was a wonderful year for them, too.” Fred Savage, the star of the original period comedy, which followed the Arnold family from 1968 to 1973, will executive produce as well as direct the pilot. Saladin Patterson will write the pilot, as well as the EP.
The network also picked up 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 accepting her skills as a psychic”. A third pilot of several untitled cameras, featuring “three former fraternity sisters who lost touch after college and met during a crucial point in their lives”, will be written by Regina Hicks and executive produced by Viola Davis, Julius Tennon and Larry Wilmore.