{"id":55339,"date":"2021-11-19T11:16:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T05:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/diffrent-strokes-remake-starring-john-lithgow-and-kevin-hart-set-to-get-abcs-live-in-front-of-a-studio-audience-treatment\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T11:16:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T05:46:06","slug":"diffrent-strokes-remake-starring-john-lithgow-and-kevin-hart-set-to-get-abcs-live-in-front-of-a-studio-audience-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/diffrent-strokes-remake-starring-john-lithgow-and-kevin-hart-set-to-get-abcs-live-in-front-of-a-studio-audience-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Diff&#8217;rent Strokes\u2019 Remake Starring John Lithgow and Kevin Hart Set to Get ABC\u2019s \u2018Live In Front Of A Studio Audience\u2019 Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>ABC will soon bring remakes of the classic sitcoms \u201cDiff\u2019rent Strokes\u201d and \u201cThe Facts Of Life\u201d to screens with the third installment of its \u201cLive in Front of a Studio Audience\u201d franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Kimmel made the announcement Thursday on his late-night show, saying the \u201cDiff\u2019rent Strokes\u201d update will feature John Lithgow as Mr. Drummond, Kevin Hart as Arnold, Damon Wayans as Willis, and Ann Dowd will play Mrs. Garrett.  \u201cThe Facts of Life\u201d cast will be announced later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDifferent Strokes\u201d ran on NBC from 1978 to 1985, before making the switch to ABC from 1985, to 1986. The comedy starred Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis, two African-American boys from Harlem who were taken in by a rich, white Park Avenue businessman and widower named Phillip Drummond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Facts of Life\u201d was a spinoff centered around the Drummonds\u2019 first housekeeper Mrs. Edna Garrett, who tought a group of girls at a boarding school how to address some of life\u2019s most pressing issues. It aired on NBC from 1979 to 1988.<\/p>\n<p>The live events will air at from 8-9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 7. The one-night-only live event will reunite executive producers Norman Lear, Jimmy Kimmel, Brent Miller, Kerry Washington, Will Ferrell, Justin Theroux and Jim Burrows<\/p>\n<p>Previous installments have included \u201cThe Jeffersons,\u201d \u201cGood Times\u201d and \u201cAll in the Family.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC will soon bring remakes of the classic sitcoms \u201cDiff\u2019rent Strokes\u201d and \u201cThe Facts Of Life\u201d to screens with the third installment of its \u201cLive in Front of a Studio Audience\u201d franchise. Jimmy Kimmel made the announcement Thursday on his late-night show, saying the \u201cDiff\u2019rent Strokes\u201d update will feature John Lithgow as Mr. Drummond, Kevin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":55340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/\u2018Diffrent-Strokes-Remake-Starring-John-Lithgow-and-Kevin-Hart-Set.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}