Spoiler Alert: This post contains details about Tuesday’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience, which aired live on the East Coast on ABC.
After four decades, cameras rolled once again on the classic ’70s/’80s comedies, Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life, as part of ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience tonight.
Airing live on the East Coast, the telecast unfolded smoothly, with no major line flubs and only a few uneven moments, which passed quickly. Soon-to-be-100-year-old TV legend Norman Lear, appearing with Jimmy Kimmel, who produced the third outing in the Live series, dropped an f-bomb that had to be bleeped. The curse word toward the top of the show seemed to be a staged, though amusing, element.
Before the main event, Deadline took a peek behind the curtain during Monday night’s rehearsal featuring an all-star cast of new players and...
After four decades, cameras rolled once again on the classic ’70s/’80s comedies, Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life, as part of ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience tonight.
Airing live on the East Coast, the telecast unfolded smoothly, with no major line flubs and only a few uneven moments, which passed quickly. Soon-to-be-100-year-old TV legend Norman Lear, appearing with Jimmy Kimmel, who produced the third outing in the Live series, dropped an f-bomb that had to be bleeped. The curse word toward the top of the show seemed to be a staged, though amusing, element.
Before the main event, Deadline took a peek behind the curtain during Monday night’s rehearsal featuring an all-star cast of new players and...
- 12/8/2021
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Kevin Hart went Live in Front of a Studio Audience on Tuesday night, channeling Gary Coleman as part of a reenactment of the classic NBC/ABC comedy Diff’rent Strokes.
But before the reenactment got underway, original cast member Todd Bridges (aka Willis Jackson) entered the recreated Drummond penthouse set to introduce Boyz II Men, who performed the series’ iconic theme song. He also paid tribute to his late costars.
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But before the reenactment got underway, original cast member Todd Bridges (aka Willis Jackson) entered the recreated Drummond penthouse set to introduce Boyz II Men, who performed the series’ iconic theme song. He also paid tribute to his late costars.
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- 12/8/2021
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
The world don’t move to the beat of just one drum — but when Boyz II Men starts singing, the studio audience rises from their seats.
ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience — consisting of reenactments of Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life episodes — enlisted four-time Grammy winners Shawn Stockman and Wanya Morris from Boyz II Men to perform a live rendition of the theme song that accompanied Diff’rent Strokes during its eight-year run.
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ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience — consisting of reenactments of Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life episodes — enlisted four-time Grammy winners Shawn Stockman and Wanya Morris from Boyz II Men to perform a live rendition of the theme song that accompanied Diff’rent Strokes during its eight-year run.
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- 12/8/2021
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
If the idea of Kevin Hart as Arnold Jackson — the 8-year-old played by Gary Coleman on “Diff’rent Strokes’ — sounds perfect on paper, wait until you see tonight’s “Live in Front of a Studio Audience.” When the 5’4” Hart stands next to the 6’4” John Lithgow — who fills Conrad Bain’s role as Arnold’s adoptive father, Mr. Drummond — the casting is about as spot-on as anything “Live” has done in the past.
And then, when Hart leaps into Lithgow’s lap at one point, expect the live studio audience to erupt. At least, they did on Monday night during a dress rehearsal of “Live in Front of a Studio Audience.” Variety was there to witness the staging of early-series episodes of “The Facts of Life,” which aired on NBC from 1979 to 1988, and “Diff’rent Strokes,” which aired from 1978-1986.
Both shows come from the stable of Norman Lear, the legendary creator...
And then, when Hart leaps into Lithgow’s lap at one point, expect the live studio audience to erupt. At least, they did on Monday night during a dress rehearsal of “Live in Front of a Studio Audience.” Variety was there to witness the staging of early-series episodes of “The Facts of Life,” which aired on NBC from 1979 to 1988, and “Diff’rent Strokes,” which aired from 1978-1986.
Both shows come from the stable of Norman Lear, the legendary creator...
- 12/7/2021
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
This Tuesday at 8/7c, ABC will revisit two more classic sitcoms, Diff’rent Strokes and its offshoot The Facts of Life, by way of its Live in Front of a Studio Audience franchise.
But whereas these live specials in the past stayed age-accurate in the casting of characters from All in the Family, The Jeffersons and Good Times, this time around Jimmy Kimmel, sitcom titan Norman Lear, Brent Miller and the other exec producers opted to have some fun refilling iconic roles with, let’s say, Actors of a Diff’rent Age.
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But whereas these live specials in the past stayed age-accurate in the casting of characters from All in the Family, The Jeffersons and Good Times, this time around Jimmy Kimmel, sitcom titan Norman Lear, Brent Miller and the other exec producers opted to have some fun refilling iconic roles with, let’s say, Actors of a Diff’rent Age.
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- 12/5/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Gary Coleman will this week divorce his wife on Us television show Divorce Court.
The 40-year-old actor, who became famous through his role as Arnold Jackson on Diff'rent Strokes as a child, married Shannon Price, 22, in August. They met while filming comedy Church Ball in 2006 then wed secretly in Nevada.
The pair have now filmed an episode of Divorce Court, a reality show in which a judge has legal authority to settle divorces and issues such as dividing assets.
Pre-released details of the show - scheduled to air in the Us on May 1 and 2 - show Coleman and Price admit to having "ugly" monthly fights.
Price tells the judge that Coleman has no friends and leaves unexpectedly in the night.
"If he doesn't get his way, he throws a temper tantrum like a five-year-old . . .
The 40-year-old actor, who became famous through his role as Arnold Jackson on Diff'rent Strokes as a child, married Shannon Price, 22, in August. They met while filming comedy Church Ball in 2006 then wed secretly in Nevada.
The pair have now filmed an episode of Divorce Court, a reality show in which a judge has legal authority to settle divorces and issues such as dividing assets.
Pre-released details of the show - scheduled to air in the Us on May 1 and 2 - show Coleman and Price admit to having "ugly" monthly fights.
Price tells the judge that Coleman has no friends and leaves unexpectedly in the night.
"If he doesn't get his way, he throws a temper tantrum like a five-year-old . . .
- 4/28/2008
- by Dave_West_imdb_@digitalspy.co.uk (Dave West)
- Digital Spy
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