Iconic sitcom returning to screens with Netflix reboot next month 50 years on from first ever episode
NETFLIX has dropped a trailer for “Good Times,” the adult animated remake of the 1970s sitcom.
The show focuses on the Evans family of the present day, residing in a Chicago housing project.
The reimagining of the TV classic hopes to entertain a new generation of viewers.
Good Times originally aired on CBS from 1974 to 1979 and had 133 episodes.
The revived series features voices J.B. Smoove and Yvette Nicole Brown as Reggie and Beverly Evans.
Jay Pharoah is their teenage artist son Junior, Marsai Martin is their activist daughter Grey, Slink Johnson is their drug-dealing infant son Dalvin, and Rashida “Sheedz” Olayiwola is Beverly’s enterprising best friend Lashes by Lisa.
Executive Producers are Stephen Curry, Norman Lear and Seth MacFarlane.
The raunchy trailer reveals a new look at the Evans family.
Netflix refers to the animated series as a “spiritual sequel of sorts.”
Netflix has teamed up with Sony Pictures Television Studios on the reboot.
It is modernised and updated to discuss contemporary themes and issues such as elections, first periods, poverty, women’s empowerment, coded bias, and technology.
TV writer Ranada Shepard said: “It’s about a Black family that comes together, laughs together, and survives the system on the South Side of Chicago.
“What you’ll get from that is a lot of social commentary, a lot of pushing the boundaries, a lot of feel-good television, but also a lot of things that may be in the vein of The Simpsons and South Park and Family Guy.
“When you’re looking back 10 years later, you’ll be like, ‘They said that on Good Times?’ Oh my gosh.'”
Good Times will be available to stream on Netflix from Friday 12th April.