‘The Wonder Years’ Returns to ABC Next Summer

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Patti LaBelle, Wayne Brady, Tituss Burgess to guest star

The Wonder Years on ABC
‘The Wonder Years’ on ABC (Image credit: ABC)

The Wonder Years will return to ABC in summer 2023. The show, an updating of the ABC series that ran from 1988 to 1993, debuted in September 2021. It tells the story of a Black middle-class family in Alabama in the late ’60s, and 12-year-old Dean. 

The cast includes Don Cheadle as the narrator, with Elisha “EJ” Williams playing the boy Dean, Dulé Hill as Bill Williams, Saycon Sengbloh as Lillian Williams and Laura Kariuki as Kim Williams. 

The guest stars in the next season include Patti LaBelle, Wayne Brady, Tituss Burgess, Donald Faison, Phoebe Robinson and Bradley Whitford. 

Saladin K. Patterson is showrunner and executive producer alongside Lee Daniels, Bob Daily and Jacque Edmonds Cofer. The series is produced by 20th Television. ■

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.