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Fandango veteran Stephanie Terifay has been tapped to help AMC Theatres build out its new movie distribution business following the record-shattering success of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour tour and Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé.

Terifay’s title is vice president, distribution. In the newly created role, she’ll be responsible for working with the music industry to develop other projects, come up with customized distribution strategies and marketing campaigns designed to optimize fan engagement.

In a twinned move, AMC’s fledgling distribution venture — headed up by Nikkole Denson-Randolph — has promoted Kevin Arnold to vp of programming promotions & partnerships, effective immediately. The mandate for all three execs is to bring additional leading music artists to the big screen via AMC Theatres Distribution.

Last year, Hollywood was caught off guard when Swift’s team bypassed the Hollywood studio system and hired AMC as the film’s distributor. It was virtually unheard...

Following the theatrical release of AMC Theatres Distribution concert pics Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour and Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce, the Nikkole Denson-Randolph led distribution team has hired Stephanie Terifay in the newly created position of VP, Distribution.

Terifay will be responsible for engaging the music industry to develop future projects, tailoring distribution strategies and marketing plans to maximize fan engagement and ensuring entertaining experiences for theatre audiences.

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Terifay joins AMC from Fandango, where she led the integrated marketing team, and worked closely with Hollywood studios, independent content distributors, theatrical exhibitors, and brand partners to drive consumer awareness and ticket sales. Prior to Fandango, she led Partner Marketing for such brands as Sundance Institute, Film Independent, Make-a-Wish Foundation, the Los Angeles Clippers, and The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Terifay will begin her role at AMC on Friday, April 26.

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Also, Kevin Arnold has been promoted to VP,...

AMC Theatres, the world’s largest cinema chain, is leaning into distribution.

The company is expanding its distribution team with a key hire and promotion, underscoring its commitment to releasing its own movies in addition to showcasing titles from traditional and independent studios. AMC Theatres launched its distribution team with the premieres of last year’s concert films, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” and “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé.”

Stephanie Terifay has joined AMC in the newly created position of VP of Distribution. She will begin on April 26. In this role, Terifay is responsible for engaging the music industry to develop future projects, tailoring distribution strategies and marketing plans to maximize fan engagement. In other words, Swift and Beyonce’s stadium tours were the first but won’t be the last to grace the big screen — if AMC can help it.

Terifay joins AMC from Fandango, where she led the integrated marketing team,...

For six seasons and over a hundred episodes, Alley Mills and Dan Lauria portrayed Norma and Jack Arnold, the 1960s parents of The Wonder Years' protagonist, Kevin Arnold.

Thirty years later, Mills and Lauria return to our television screens as Vivian and Lou Hutchinson, the most recent guests on Fox's Fantasy Island.

In this exclusive interview over Zoom, the pair shares with TV Fanatic how they've sustained both their friendship and working relationship over the decades.

Lauria jumps right in when asked if they've kept in touch over the years. "We see each other. Whenever we're doing plays, we go see each other. And we just did a play together. I love working with Alley."

Mills fills in more details about their work together, "[We did] a play together in New York last fall. Morning's at Seven with some wonderful actors. It was really a great experience."

Lauria lists the stellar cast they worked with,...

It seems as though into every television watching generation, a series about a close-knit group of deranged friends with little regard for the world at large is born. In the 1990s, it was "Seinfeld." In the 2000s, it was "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." While "Seinfeld" closed up shop after nine seasons, amazingly, "It's Always Sunny" is a show that just keeps chugging along despite its incredibly humble origins (which include the original pilot being shot for a measly 200), to the point where it has, remarkably, become TV's longest-running sitcom.

And while the core cast of Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, Charlie Day, and Kaitlin Olson carried the show through its first season, it wasn't until a seasoned sitcom legend came on board that things really started to take shape. And no, we're not talking about Frank Reynolds himself, Danny DeVito. While DeVito's casting in season 2 proved crucial to the series carrying on,...

Fred Savage has been fired as a director and executive producer of ABC’s “The Wonder Years” reboot over inappropriate conduct (via Deadline). The news comes after 20th Century Television received multiple complaints of inappropriate set behavior from Savage and, after an investigation, decided to sever ties with him.

In a statement, the studio confirmed the news but did not offer specifics about the nature of the complaints.

“Recently, we were made aware of allegations of inappropriate conduct by Fred Savage, and as is policy, an investigation was launched,” a spokesman for 20th Century Television said. “Upon its completion, the decision was made to terminate his employment as an executive producer and director of ‘The Wonder Years.’”

Savage rose to prominence as a child actor in the 1980s for his roles as The Grandson in “The Princess Bride” and Kevin Arnold on the original run of “The Wonder Years.” The...

Fred Savage has been fired from his role as executive producer and director of ABC’s The Wonder Years following an investigation into allegations of inappropriate conduct, according to a report.

Although Disney executives declined to reveal the exact nature of Savage’s misconduct, Deadline stated that it included “verbal outbursts and inappropriate behavior.”

“Recently, we were made aware of allegations of inappropriate conduct by Fred Savage, and as is policy, an investigation was launched,” a spokesman for Disney’s 20th Television said in a statement. “Upon its completion, the...

Fred Savage, who serves as a director and executive producer on ABC’s “The Wonder Years,” has been fired due to the findings of an investigation about his conduct on set.

Multiple employees complained about Savage’s behavior while working on “The Wonder Years,” a reboot of the ’80s-’90s series of the same name that starred Savage as Kevin Arnold. The nature of the complaints remains unclear. However, a spokesperson for Disney-owned 20th Television confirmed that allegations were made and that Savage had been terminated.

The statement reads: “Recently, we were made aware of allegations of inappropriate conduct by Fred Savage, and as is policy, an investigation was launched. Upon its completion, the decision was made to terminate his employment as an executive producer and director of ‘The Wonder Years.’”

This is not Savage’s first time in the news for allegations about his behavior.

In 1993, original “The Wonder Years...

Original Wonder Years star Fred Savage has been fired from ABC’s reboot following an investigation into allegations of “inappropriate conduct.”

Our sister site Deadline has the details, with Savage facing multiple complaints of misconduct from his time as executive producer and director of the Wonder Years reboot, which debuted on ABC last fall. The allegations reportedly include verbal outbursts and inappropriate behavior.

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“Recently, we were made aware of allegations of inappropriate conduct by Fred Savage,...

Exclusive: Disney is severing ties with Fred Savage following multiple complaints of misconduct in his role as executive producer and director on the freshman ABC comedy series The Wonder Years, produced by 20th Television, part of Disney Television Studios. The allegations were investigated, leading to Savage’s dismissal.

The Wonder Years, a reboot of the beloved 1988 series, which starred Savage, has not been renewed for a second season yet but remains in contention.

“Recently, we were made aware of allegations of inappropriate conduct by Fred Savage, and as is policy, an investigation was launched. Upon its completion, the decision was made to terminate his employment as an executive producer and director of The Wonder Years,” a spokesman for 20th Television said in a statement to Deadline, declining further comment.

Details about the nature of the allegations are unclear, but I hear they included verbal outbursts and inappropriate behavior. Deadline has...

ABC’s The Wonder Years, a reimagining of the ‘80s sitcom starring Fred Savage (who serves as executive producer), had never shown any connection to the original series until this week’s episode.

Wednesday’s installment, titled “Love and War,” found Bruce (played by Spence Moore II) returning home from the Vietnam War after being shot and injured. Although expected to make a full recovery, the eldest Williams son was reluctant to talk about how he got hurt and even kept the Bronze Star he earned from said incident a secret.

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There have been a lot of days lately where it’s felt like the traditional broadcast TV networks haven’t been trying very hard. Their primary goal, it so often seems, is to keep generating spin-offs of pre-existing franchises (coming soon, probably: FBI: It Enterprise Services Division) and to provide library content for their respective streaming services. Sometimes, the broadcasters stop airing their more interesting shows altogether and send them straight to streaming, which is why Evil is now a Paramount+ exclusive rather than part of CBS’ primetime lineup.

But from time to time,...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for The Wonder Years, Season 1, Episode 1, “Pilot.”] Although it takes place in the same era (the late 1960s), ABC’s reboot of The Wonder Years is telling a different story from the original as the focus shifts from Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage) to Dean Williams (Elisha “Ej” Williams). While Dean is a bit like Kevin because of his awkward youth, there’s a distinct difference as the series looks at life within Dean’s relatively affluent Black community. The premiere focuses on Dean’s desire to find the place he fits best, a quest that’s harder to achieve than he’d originally thought. (Credit: ABC/Erika Doss) Viewers meet his best friends Cory Long (Amari O’Neil) and Brad Hitman (Julian Lerner), as well as the girl he’s got goo-goo eyes for, Keisa Clemmons (Milan Ray). Now attending class at a desegregated school, Dean has to contend with the attitudes...

The Wonder Years, which originally premiered on January 31, 1988 on ABC, followed a young Kevin Arnold (played by Fred Savage) growing up in a white middle-class family during the late ’60s and early ’70s. With Daniel Stern narrating as a thirtysomething Kevin reflecting on his younger years, the story focused on his childhood in a nondescript suburban neighborhood against the backdrop of the Vietnam War.

Capturing the charm of the Og series, the 2021 reboot centers on Dean Williams (Elisha “Ej” Williams), who is Black, and his middle-class family living in Montgomery, Alabama during the late ‘60s — when pivotal moments such as...

Things have come full-circle for Fred Savage. At the age of 12, he achieved stardom as the Emmy-nominated star of The Wonder Years, playing young Kevin Arnold as he grew up in the late 1960s. Savage’s success on the show prepared him for a career not only as an actor, but also as a producer […]

The post Fred Savage’s Sense Of ‘Wonder’ Is Renewed … Behind The Camera appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.

ABC’s reboot of “The Wonder Years” exists in the same universe as the original 1980s and 1990s coming-of-age sitcom, but creator and showrunner Saladin K. Patterson considers Kevin Arnold’s story, as told then, to be a parallel one to Dean Williams’ story, which is being told now.

Both versions of the show are set in 1968 and told from a young boy’s perspective, in addition to that boy’s adult self narrating with present-day perspective. The original starred Fred Savage as the young character; he now serves as an executive producer on Patterson’s version of the show. Daniel Stern was the narrator, offering commentary from the character about two decades later. In Patterson’s “Wonder Years,” Dean is played by actor Elisha “Ej” Williams in the 1968 storyline, and his 2021 perspective is narrated by Don Cheadle.

“A lot of the excitement that we had in doing this reimagining...

ABC is going back to the wonder years of the late 1960s with a new version of the beloved coming-of-age comedy “The Wonder Years” that swaps out Fred Savage’s Kevin Arnold for Elisha Williams’ Dean Williams. In doing so, the Lee Daniels-produced remake focuses that time period around a middle class Black family in Alabama. For showrunner Saladin Patterson, it was a chance to showcase an aspect of Black culture that has rarely been seen in entertainment. “We have not seen the middle class Black experience on TV during the civil rights movement, during the turbulent ’60s,” Patterson tells TheWrap. “We have seen Black stories, a lot of Black stories, but it hasn’t really been an experience of the Black middle class, specifically showing how, first of all, there was a Black middle class.” Patterson, who was born in 1972, four years after the time period where the show begins,...

In the conversation about seminal television through the years, a show like the original version of “The Wonder Years” always tends to find a way in the conversation. And for good reason. For six seasons, the coming-of-age ABC dramedy followed Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold, a typical suburban American child from a typical suburban American household, as he grew up in his typical suburban town — from 1968 to 1973. The series itself debuted in 1988 and ended in 1993, allowing Boomers to look back with fondness over a nostalgic reminder of their own wonder years, of what it felt like to grow up at that time, awkwardness and all. “The Wonder Years” also connected to the millennial, Nick at Nite crowd who may have been too young to fully get the series when it originally aired but could go back and connect through the power of syndication. Which is why a reboot or reimagining...

TV’s reboot and revival craze is showing no signs of slowing down — they have to run out of old shows to redo at some point, right? Right?!? — and ABC’s new take on The Wonder Years ups the ante by offering a double dose of nostalgia: a wistful remembrance of an ’80s TV show that was itself a wistful remembrance of life in the ’60s. That’s a lot of wistful remembering!

This new Wonder Years — premiering next Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 8:30/7:30c; I’ve seen the pilot — does have big shoes to fill: The original series was a TV trailblazer,...

ABC is rebooting “The Wonder Years” for a new generation. This version, which hails from Lee Daniels and counts O.G. star Fred Savage among its executive producers, follows a Black middle-class family in the late 1960s.

Thursday, at the reboot’s Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, Daniels and showrunner Saladin K. Patterson explained why they didn’t push the plot up a few decades from the original series’s setting. It was definitely an option.

“We wanted to really take the opportunity to show a part of Black middle-class life that had not been seen before,” Patterson said. “Usually when you talk about the late ’60s, it’s talking about the struggle and the civil rights movement and things like that that are very valid and a part of our story as well, but the perspective of the Black middle class during that time specifically was something that...

ABC's highly-anticipated reboot of The Wonder Years finally gets underway Wednesday, September 22 (8:30-9:00 p.m. Edt), and ABC has just announced the original cast will be staging a takeover event.

it was announced today that the network’s comedy lineup would pay homage to the original series with a larger-than-life takeover as fan-favorite original series cast members are set to appear throughout the evening on Wednesday, October. 13.

The exciting night of nostalgia will kick off with a guest appearance by Dan Lauria (Jack Arnold) on The Goldbergs.

Then, we'll get a nod to the iconic theme song originally covered by Joe Cocker in the all-new episode of The Wonder Years, airing that same night.

Later that evening, Fred Savage (Kevin Arnold) will guest star on The Conners, and the night will close with an appearance by Danica McKellar (Winnie Cooper) on Home Economics.

Confused? We don't blame you!

The cast of the original “Wonder Years” will guest star across ABC sitcoms on the night of the reboot’s premiere, Sept. 22.

First, Dan Lauria, who played patriarch Jack Arnold on the late-1980s and early-’90s family sitcom, will appear on “The Goldbergs,” which airs at 8 p.m. on the Alphabet network. That will be followed by premiere of the reboot at 8:30 p.m., which will include “a nod” to the iconic theme song originally covered by Joe Cocker.

“The Conners,” which premieres at 9 p.m., will include Fred Savage, who played Kevin Arnold on the original sow and serves as an executive producer on the new one, and “Home Economics,” which closes the Wednesday night sitcom block at 9:30 p.m., will feature Danica McKellar, who formerly played Winnie Cooper.

The network did not share information about the characters these actors would be playing.

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“The Wonder Years” is getting the reboot treatment at ABC, and filmmaker Lee Daniels has shared the first look at the new cast. The upcoming series, which received a pilot order from the network, will star Elisha “Ej” Williams as Dean Williams, taking over for Fred Savage, who played the central character, Kevin Arnold, in the original run. Rounding out...

Don Cheadle is taking a stroll down memory lane: The ten-time Emmy nominee has joined the cast of ABC’s reboot of The Wonder Years as the show’s narrator.

The reboot, which is executive-produced by Lee Daniels and earned a pilot order in January, centers on a Black teen named Dean Williams and his family living in Montgomery, Alabama during the turbulent 1960s. Cheadle will narrate the flashbacks as the grown-up version of Dean, as Daniel Stern did on the original Wonder Years for Fred Savage’s Kevin Arnold. “Featured via narration as he reflects back on his younger...

Exclusive: The Wonder Years reboot has found its narrator. Don Cheadle has been tapped to play adult Dean Williams in ABC’s single-camera pilot from Saladin Patterson, the original series’ Fred Savage and Lee Daniels.

Written by Patterson and directed by Savage, the reboot of the classic 1980s family comedy-drama is set in the same era as the original. It looks at how the Williamses, a Black middle-class family in Montgomery, Al, in the turbulent late 1960s made sure it was the Wonder Years for them too.

The new Wonder Years centers on the family’s teenage son Dean Williams (Elisha “Ej” Williams) much like the original series focused on Kevin Arnold (Savage). Both itterations are narrated by adult versions of the lead character. Cheadle is taking on adult Dean while Daniel Stern narrated the original as adult Kevin.

Dulé Hill and Saycon Sengbloh star as Dean’s parents. Laura Kariuki is Kim Williams,...

Exclusive: The Wonder Years pilot is adding to its cast.

Kid actors Milan Ray, Julian Lerner and Amari O’Neil are joining ABC’s reboot alongside Elisha “Ej” Williams, who will play Dean Williams, the new Kevin Arnold.

The Wonder Years single-camera comedy reboot pilot comes from Dave exec producer Saladin Patterson, Fred Savage and Empire co-creator Lee Daniels.

Written by Patterson and directed by Savage, the reboot of the classic 1980s family comedy-drama is set in the same era as the original. It looks at how the Williamses, a Black middle-class family in Montgomery, Al, in the turbulent late 1960s made sure it was the Wonder Years for them too.

Psych alum Dulé Hill and In the Dark’s Saycon Sengbloh star as Dean’s parents. Laura Kariuki (Black Lightning) is Kim Williams, Dean’s teenage sister.

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Ray, who recently had roles in Amazon’s Troop Zero...

Lee Daniels’ “Wonder Years” reboot pilot at ABC has added two new cast members.

“Psych” and “The West Wing” alum Dule Hill has joined the series as Bill Williams, Dean’s father and patriarch of the central family. Per ABC, “He’s a music professor by day and a funk musician by night – described by Adult Dean as ‘the baddest guy I knew.’ Almost always calm and composed, his favorite words are ‘be cool.’ Bill wants his family and their black, middle class neighborhood to remain self-sufficient and he puts his money where his mouth is.”

Newcomer Laura Kariuki will play Bill’s daughter and Dean’s teenage sister, Kim Williams. According to the character description, she is confident, bright and popular. “She and Dean bicker as siblings do but they have a good relationship. Her parents have her preparing for college – but Kim is starting to rebel, telling them...

The Wonder Years has found its new Kevin Arnold. Elisha “Ej” Williams has been tapped to star as Dean, the new Kevin in ABC’s The Wonder Years single-camera comedy reboot pilot, from Dave exec producer Saladin Patterson, Fred Savage and Empire co-creator Lee Daniels.

Savage, who played Kevin in the original dramedy series, has officially passed the torch to a new generation. You can watch of clip of Savage and Patterson delivering the good news to Williams below.

Written by Patterson and directed by Savage, the reboot of the classic 1980s family comedy-drama is set in the same era as the original. It looks at how the Williamses, a Black middle-class family in Montgomery, Al, in the turbulent late 1960s made sure it was the Wonder Years for them too.

Williams’ Dean is an inquisitive and hopeful 12-year-old kid coming of age in a turbulent time. It’s 1968 in Montgomery,...

Lee Daniels’ upcoming reboot of “The Wonder Years” has found its new Kevin Arnold… er, Dean.

The ABC pilot cast Elisha “Ej” Williams to play Dean, the 12-year-old boy that serves as the center of the show, much the same way Fred Savage’s Kevin Arnold did in the original “Wonder Years.”

Here’s how ABC describes the character: “”Dean is an inquisitive and hopeful 12-year-old kid coming of age in a turbulent time. It’s 1968 in Montgomery, Alabama — and Dean is trying to figure out his place within his Black family and the world at large. Though a little insecure, a tad awkward and a bit self-conscious, he is determined to make his mark on the world around him.”

Williams joins Saycon Sengbloh, who will play his mother, Lillian, in the pilot.

Put into development last summer, “The Wonder Years” reboot will be set in the same era as the original 1980s series,...

ABC’s reboot of The Wonder Years will get by with a little help from Elisha “Ej” Williams.

The young actor will take the baton from original star Fred Savage, playing Dean (aka the new Kevin Arnold) in the Alphabet Net’s pilot, TVLine has learned.

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According to Deadline, ABC has committed to a pilot for a reboot of the classic ‘80s television drama/comedy The Wonder Years. The project will be developed by Dave executive producer Saladin K. Ferguson, Empire co-creator Lee Daniels, and original Wonder Years star Fred Savage.

Like the original series, this new iteration of The Wonder Years will take place in the socially and politically turbulent 1960s. But instead of following the white middle class Arnold family, the reboot will center on a Black middle class family from Montgomery, Alabama. The series will be written by Ferguson, who will draw from his experiences growing up in Montgomery. Savage will direct the pilot. As of now the series has a pilot commitment but the contract is written in such a way that if ABC picks up the pilot,...

ABC has handed a pilot production commitment to The Wonder Years, a new iteration of the network’s 1980s family comedy-drama. It comes from Dave executive producer Saladin K. Patterson, Empire co-creator Lee Daniels, the original series’ breakout star Fred Savage and 20th Century Fox TV.

Written by Patterson inspired by his experiences growing up in Montgomery, Al, the new incarnation of Wonder Years chronicles how a middle-class Black family in Montgomery in the turbulent late-1960s — the same era as the original series — made sure it was the Wonder Years for them too.

The approach is reminiscent of the successful current reimagining of the classic family sitcom One Day at a Time with a Latinx family.

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The Wonder Years has a pilot production commitment. If the pilot script is approved for pilot production by ABC, the signoff also would trigger the opening of a mini...

ABC is bringing back “The Wonder Years,” putting in development a new take from “Empire” creator Lee Daniels, that will shift the focus to a Black middle class family in Alabama.

The new version will be directed and executive produced by Fred Savage, who starred as Kevin Arnold on the original series. Neal Marlens, who co-created the series with Carol Black, will serve as consultant on the Daniels-led version. The new “Wonder Years” will take place in the same era, the 1960s, but relocate to Montgomery, Alabama during the height of the Civil Rights movement.

Here is the official logline for the project:

How a black middle class family in Montgomery, Alabama in the turbulent late 1960’s,the same era as the original series, made sure it was The Wonder Years for them too.

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Cue up a little Joe Cocker before reading this news: A reboot of The Wonder Years, centered on a Black family, is in the works at ABC, TVLine has learned.

Empire co-creator Lee Daniels is behind the half-hour project, which has scored a pilot production commitment at the network. Set in the turbulent late 1960s — the same era as the original series — it will follow a Black, middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama, as it makes sure these are the Wonder Years for them, too.

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Little is known about Janelle’s mom, save for that she signed over full parental rights of her daughter to Malik. Fogelman says that when the character does arrive, the storyline will be “less about” her relationship with Malik and “more about what it means from Deja’s point of view,...

Derek Waters loves TV history — so much so that he even keeps a collection of old TV Guide magazines at home. As the co-creator and host of Comedy Central’s Emmy-nominated “Drunk History,” it’s perhaps no surprise that Waters reveres classic TV — particularly from his childhood era of the 1980s.

But here’s where he draws the line at nostalgia: Reboots and remakes.

“I hope some day, I’m alive to see some sort of law passed where something, be it ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ once a show or movie [has been given] some sort of accolade, it can be shut,” Waters told Variety‘s “My Favorite Episode” podcast. “You’re not allowed to touch this. Leave it alone.”

Waters’ suggestion: Just re-release a DVD of the original instead. “Don’t change it,” he added. “I’m trying to think of one thing where I’m so glad they rebooted that, and...

The Big Bang Theory is now a part of television history, and soon will be a part of American history, thanks to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, which has acquired iconic pieces from the TV cast to add to its collection.

Sheldon Cooper’s Super Hero shirt, Howard Wolowitz’s dickie and belt buckle, Amy Farrah Fowler’s knee-length skirt and other items join the museum’s collection in Washington, D.C. No display date was announced.

The news was revealed by Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch during a joint cast appearance last night on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

The show is signing off as the longest-running multi-camera series in television history, with 279 episodes and 12 seasons, The Big Bang Theory aired its final two episodes back-to-back on Thursday, but will likely live on in syndication...

Here’s a fun tweet I came across from Danica McKellar, who played Winnie Cooper on the TV show The Wonder Years. She wrote in the tweet that she got to have lunch with her former co-stars, Fred Savage, who played the lead role of Kevin Arnold, and Josh Saviano, who played the best friend, Paul Pfeiffer. She said

I got to see these guys for lunch yesterday - it was so much fun to catch up and hear how their beautiful families are doing! And yes, @joshsaviano, I totally agree - *you guys* are like family... I mean, we Did grow up together, after all. #memories #TheWonderYears

And that just makes me so dang happy. The Wonder Years is my favorite show of all time. I grew up with these characters, and although the show is largely about a boy growing up in the 60’s and 70’s, it strikes...

Everyone carries on about how this is the true Golden Age of Television, but many seem to forget that there have been a lot of shows along the way that have played a role in getting us here. One of them was The Wonder Years, the 1988-debuting TV series that served as a love letter to anyone who grew up in the 1960s. Although, admittedly, when we were first introduced to the show 30 years ago, we weren't really quite sure just what to expect. As that first half-hour episode aired, we met young Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage) and Winnie Cooper (Danica McKellar), kids just trying to be exactly that — kids — but not always being allowed to do so because of the times they were living in (the late 1960s). It wasn't long before we began to suspect that this wasn’t going to be anything we were used to. And by the end,...

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Ready to feel old? It’s been 25 years since “The Wonder Years,” starring a young Fred Savage, went off the air. (The finale aired on May 12, 1993.) TheWrap takes a look back on the beloved coming-of-age series set in the 1960s and ’70s to dig up some facts you might not have known.

Fred Savage is one of the youngest actors to be nominated for an Emmy Award, when he was 13 years old in 1989 for his role as Kevin Arnold. Keshia Knight Pulliam is the youngest to be nominated at 6 years old for her role on “The Cosby Show” as Rudy Huxtable, and Savage is tied with “Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown, who was nominated at 13 in 2016.

Executive producer Bob Brush said that although “The Wonder Years” team was the first to show The Beatles’ Ed Sullivan appearance on TV, the episode didn’t turn out quite as expected. “We didn’t really use the Beatles footage very well, and that episode was kind of mediocre when it came out. I had a call one day that Jon Feltheimer [the head of New World Entertainment] was on his way down to the studio, and he walked into my office and said, “I want my money back,” he told The Rolling Stone in 2014.

The first kiss between Kevin (Savage) and Winnie (Danica McKellar) was also the young actors’ real-life first kiss. McKellar told The Rolling Stone that she and Savage had a mutual crush, and “the anticipation of that kiss nearly killed us both.”

Brush has also said that even though everyone was sad to see the show end, he “knew it was time.”

“From my point of view, I think we had a year more than we actually deserved,” he said. “‘The Wonder Years’ was really about a specific time in life when you’re still young enough to believe in things like magic and the truth and all of those things. One of the jokes was that Fred’s voice was getting lower than Danny Stern’s voice. So from my point of view, the story was well told, and it was time to put a button in it.”

McKellar has said that the writers would eavesdrop on her and Savage to get ideas for dialogue between Winnie and Kevin.

“Kevin and Winnie’s relationship was, in some ways, defined by my friendship with Fred and some of the things that we would say,” she said. “The writers would actually take lines from things that we were saying to each other, off camera, and put it into the script.”

“There was this whole episode dedicated to, ‘Do you like him, or do you like him, like him?’ That was an expression that he and I used when we were talking about some guy that I had a crush on, in real life,” she added. “And then, it showed up in a script, a few weeks later. There were a lot of blurred lines. The other interesting thing was that I broke up with my first boyfriend, in real life, about a week before we shot the episode where I had to break up with Kevin on the show. It was fascinating how many parallels there were.”

Danica McKellar auditioned against her sister, Crystal, for the role of Winnie Cooper. Though Danica got the part, the producers liked Crystal so much they brought her one for a guest role as Becky Slater, who Kevin dated to make Winnie jealous.

The series was inspired by “A Christmas Story” — at least in part– from the coming-of-age theme to the use of voice-over, which was unheard of at the time. Peter Billingsley, who played Ralphie in “A Christmas Story,” had a guest spot as one of Kevin’s roommates on the final episode.

Daniel Stern talked to his real-life son in the last episode. In the show’s closing moments, Daniel Stern, who served as the voice-over narrator of the older Kevin, is asked by his “son” if he wants to play catch. That kid was Stern’s real-life son Henry.

Kevin and Winnie’s breakup was caused by McKellar’s growth spurt. Kevin and Winnie’s relationship was the heart of the show, but McKellar’s growth spurt in between the third and fourth season caused the writers to break the two up, at least until Fred Savage could catch up in height.

Jason Hervey, who played older brother Wayne, said his character was inspired by his own real-life older brother. “My brother Scott was the real Wayne Arnold. There were so many things that I borrowed from our real life experiences,” he told Uproxx in 2014. In fact, the storyline where Wayne is forced to take Kevin to the mall with him, was a real-life experience for Hervey.

Alley Mills stated in a 2018 interview that the show was cancelled as a result of a groundless sexual harassment suit filed against Fred Savage and Jason Hervey by a member of the crew. Both the show and Savage denied the accusations, and the lawsuit was dropped after an undisclosed out-of-court settlement was reached.

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One name dominated TV more than any other in 2017. No, it doesn't rhyme with "Drumpf." But it does rhyme with "heaven." We're talking about, of course, Kevin. Kevins were everywhere this year, and the moniker is enjoying its biggest pop culture moment since Kevin Arnold and Kevin McCallister ruled

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Many fans still recognize Fred Savage as love-struck Kevin Arnold who pined for Winnie Cooper in “The Wonder Years,” and he doesn’t mind the attention.

The series, which was set in the ‘60s, aired from 1988 until 1993.

“I think the fact that I was a part of something that still means so much to people, and after all these years they still want it to be on the air, they still think about it…I mean, that’s really a special thing,” the 41-year-old told Vanity Fair. “Some people work their whole careers and don’t get that! So, no, I’ll never get tired of that. That’ll never stop being meaningful to me or stop making me feel incredibly special.”

The former child star is also aware many viewers have wondered about the...

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The '90s was great for many things - fashion, music, movies, and most importantly, an incredible amount of small-screen talent.

They were Tiger Beat gorgeous - all of them - but they had the ambition and skills to stick around and not fade into obscurity.

It's hard to believe how many amazing stars popped up over the decade, and still pop up on our televisions today!

If we've forgotten your favorite, feel free to add them in the comments below!

1. Mark Paul Gosselaar - Saved by the Bell Just as Ginny Baker had Mike Lawrence on her wall as a young girl, what girl didn't have Mark Paul Gosselaar on hers? Zack Morris had cool hair, a cool cell phone, and a killer band (Zack Attack Forever)! He's never left TV, moving from Bayside to NYPD Blue to Franklin & Bash, and now crushing it as the aformentioned Mike Lawrence on Pitch.

The great thing about TV is that it offers a few hours of respite from real life. We live and breathe the characters and their stories from our favorite shows. Sometimes the feelings are so real, it's like we're a part of what's going on even if it's set in a time period we're not familiar with.

There are shows that bring on the nostalgia and others that bring the past back to life! You can learn about life during the Salem Witch Trials or learn what it was like during the early hip-hop era.

From classic tales of romance set in the far past to the struggles of teenage life in the 80s, here's a list of TV shows that will take you back in time!

1. Freaks and Geeks Set in the early 80s this teen dramedy told the story about the unpopular kids of high school: the freaks and geeks.

Even though Fred Savage says there's no chance of a Kevin Arnold/Winnie Cooper reunion, his former costar Danica McKellar isn't so sure.

"If we could do it without [Fred], then possibly," McKellar tells People Now potentially revisiting The Wonder Years. "But I just don't know if it would feel the same."

McKellar continues, "Who would narrate it?"

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McKellar also weighs in on Savage's recent appearance as co-host of Live, saying, "He's fantastic, he's super talented."

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Even though Fred Savage says there's no chance of a Kevin Arnold/Winnie Cooper reunion, his former costar Danica McKellar isn't so sure. "If we could do it without [Fred], then possibly," McKellar tells People Now potentially revisiting The Wonder Years. "But I just don't know if it would feel the same."McKellar continues, "Who would narrate it?" Related Video: Danica McKellar on How She Thinks Fred Savage would Do as Co-Host on Live: 'He's So Good With Physical Comedy' McKellar also weighs in on Savage's recent appearance as co-host of Live, saying, "He's fantastic, he's super talented." As for Savage possibly becoming a permanent co-host?...

The Wonder Years star Jason Hervey spent two days behind bars over the weekend in Tennessee, People has confirmed. The jail time comes after he was arrested in January 2015 for an alleged DUI, alleged possession of a handgun while under the influence and alleged violation of implied consent (meaning he refused a blood test), Williamson County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Sharon Puckett tells People. Hervey told TMZ, which was the first to report the news, that he had a prescription for Ambien and took a pill before getting behind the wheel to run an errand, but he had not been drinking.

The Wonder Years star Jason Hervey spent two days behind bars over the weekend in Tennessee, People has confirmed. The jail time comes after he was arrested in January 2015 for an alleged DUI, alleged possession of a handgun while under the influence and alleged violation of implied consent (meaning he refused a blood test), Williamson County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Sharon Puckett tells People. Hervey told TMZ, which was the first to report the news, that he had a prescription for Ambien and took a pill before getting behind the wheel to run an errand, but he had not been drinking.