REBOOT OF ICONIC 1970S SITCOM LANDING ON NETFLIX OVER 50 YEARS AFTER FIRST EPISODE

Netflix is remaking the classic 1970s sitcom, Good Times, but reinventing it as an animation.

The reimagining of the TV classic shows a fourth generation of the Evans family trying to keep their heads above water in a Chicago housing project.

Don’t let the cartoon form fool you, it’s very much an unfiltered adult comedy.

Yvette Nicole Brown (Community), J.B. Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm), and Jay Pharoah (Saturday Night Live) will all be voicing mum Beverly Evans, dad Reggie Evans and their son Junior respectively, on the series that lands on April 12.

Marsai Martin (Black-ish, Little) plays their activist daughter, Grey, Slink Johnson is their drug-dealing infant son, Dalvin, and Rashida “Sheedz” Olayiwola (Jury Duty), also a writer on the show, voices the role of Beverly’s enterprising best friend, Lashes by Lisa.

Executive-produced by Ranada Shepard, Stephen Curry, Norman Lear, and Seth MacFarlane, it aims to bring the series up to date with modern-day issues, and unlike its predecessor, there will be no laugh track.

The original version that aired on CBS from 1974 to 1979 ran for 133 episodes. It made history as television’s first Black two-parent family sitcom.

Oscar-nominated comedy writer Normal Lear, who worked on the original Good Times, died aged 101 in December.

He made pivotal contributions to the remake behind the scenes and also has a cameo appearance in the eighth episode – his final role.

Good Times will be available to stream on Netflix from April 12

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