A pair of IP-based projects at aren’t moving forward after several years of development. The tech giant’s streaming service has scuttled a sequel to the 1980s sitcom , which had original series stars Tony Danza and Alyssa Milano attached to reprise their roles. Amazon MGM Studios, meanwhile, has pulled the plug on a spinoff centering on Jamie Hector’s character, Detective Jerry Edgar.
The sequel in 2022 after at Sony Pictures Television, which owns the rights to the original series. Milano was set to star as Samantha Micelli, now a single mother living in the same house where she grew up in the original show, which ran from 1984-92 on ABC. Danza was also set to return as her father, now retired.
Mike Royce and Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz (Netflix and Pop TV’s ) came aboard as writers and executive producers when the show landed at Freevee. The late Norman Lear, whose Embassy Communications produced the original, was also among the executive producers. As for , the Jerry Edgar show was one of two spinoffs Amazon MGM announced early last year.
The other, centering on Detective Renée Ballard, got in November 2023; Maggie Q is playing the title character, the head of a new cold case unit in the LAPD, with John Carroll Lynch also starring. ( , Amazon’s continuation of the main series, is also set to end with its third season in 2025.) Michael Connelly, author of the Harry Bosch novels on which all the shows are based, was set to executive produce the Edgar show with Lau.
