‘A Different World’: Netflix Sequel Series Cast Announced
We’re going back to Hillman. Netflix is going ahead with a sequel to the popular series “A Different World.” Free-spirited freshman Deborah Wayne, daughter of Dwayne and Whitley, is setting out to build her own legacy alongside a whole new generation of Hillman’s best and brightest.
Maleah Joi Moon (Hell’s Kitchen) stars as Deborah Wayne, Dwyane and Whitley’s daughter with Alijah Kai Haggins (“Everybody Hates Chris“) as Rashida, Chibuikem Uche (“One Of Us Is Lying“) as Kojo, Cornell Young IV (“Doing Life“) as Shaquille, Kennedi Reece as Hazel, and Jordan Aaron Hall (“The Idea of You“) as Amir.
Debbie Allen will return as a director and EP alongside showrunner and EP Felicia Pride (Grey’s Anatomy, Bel-Air). Original series writers Reggie Rock Bythewood and Gina Prince-Bythewood will return as EPs with Mandy Summers and Tom Werner.
The original series ran on NBC from 1987 to 1993 and centered around college life at a HBCU (historically black college or university). The show was a spinoff from “The Cosby Show” that had Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet) heading to her family’s alma mater. Once Bonet left the series, the focus of the show became the love story of students Dwayne Wayne (Kadeem Hardison) and Whitley Gilbert (Jasmine Guy), one of the ’90s TV supercouples. A pop culture series so popular at one point that Aretha Franklin sang the show’s theme song for Season 2.
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