Sep 4 2008The Wonder Years: I Love the '80s Edition
Bob Brush, a writer and producer on The Wonder Years, has a new idea for a show: The Wonder Years... but in the '80s, and with a title that implies it's a VH1 talking heads show. From THR:
NBC is getting "Lost in the '80s."The network has handed a director-contingent pilot order to an hourlong project from "The Wonder Years" writer-producer Bob Brush.
The project, produced by Sony Pictures TV and studio-based Tantamount, is described as "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" meets "The Ice Storm."
It is considered an '80s version of "Wonder Years," the half-hour dramedy set 20 years prior that tackled the social issues and historic events of the late '60s through the eyes of teen Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage).
Brush is executive producing "Lost in the '80s" with Tantamount's Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum and Mitch Hurwitz.
Mitch Hurwitz, you blessed us with Arrested Development, so I'll give this a chance because your name is attached to it. But so help me god, the first time Lost in the '80s references watching The Wonder Years, I'm done.
Reader Comments
1. Mella - September 4, 2008 2:33 PM
This canNOT happen. I shan't allow it. Thw White Hollywood Machine has ruined damn near everything I ever loved as a child, and I will be damned--DAMNED!!-- if I'll allow them to evacuate their bowels all over The Wonder Years, too.
I'll be in my room making preemptive Molotov Cocktails should anyone need me.
2. Dorian - September 4, 2008 2:42 PM
I'll give it a chance just BECAUSE Mitch Hurwitz is involved, but the second I find out he's dropped the project I'm going in hate mode.
3. Troop - September 4, 2008 2:55 PM
1st of all, watching the wonder years was an integral part of growing up in the 80's so if its referenced then who cares its pop culture and that's just how it goes.
2nd Mella if your childhood sucked so bad that what tv and movie makes do now can "ruin" it. Then end it all now because your life is empty.
4. theotheraaron - September 4, 2008 3:01 PM
hmmm... sounds good. NOT!
get it, like the 80s slang?
5. Cody. - September 4, 2008 3:42 PM
Sound like Freaks and Geeks. But there's no way it will be as good.
6. cody - September 4, 2008 3:42 PM
sounds*
7. Leon - September 4, 2008 9:20 PM
I liked it better when it was called FREAKS AND GEEKS!
8. nopantz - September 5, 2008 12:15 AM
Ahhhh the first time I read this I thought it meant that it was going to be the same show but 20 years later meaning it would still have the same cast and being narrated by Daniel Stern but in the 80's. Paul gets AIDS and then...well that's all I got for now but it would be a great show.
9. TootieP - September 9, 2008 12:01 PM
Arrested Development RULES!!
I'll give this a chance, who knows.
10. Super_kitten - September 10, 2008 8:16 PM
Just FYI, Bob Brush was the EXECUTIVE producer of wonder years, which is based on his life. He was not a random writer-producer.