Fans of the original A Different World series rejoice.
Jasmine Guy, Kadeem Hardison, Cree Summer, and Darryl M. Bell are coming back together for the Netflix spinoff series, reprising their roles from the mothership series. The quad will recur throughout the season.
The single-camera comedy will have 10 half-hour episodes from showrunner and executive producer Felicia Pride. Debbie Allen, who produced, directed, and acted in the OG series, will executive produce and direct three episodes of the continuation, including the premiere.
Pride and Allen shared their excitement over the team coming back together for a new generation.
"A Different World is back!!! YAY!! We are over the moon to bring this much-anticipated sequel with our returning legacy stars Kadeem Hardison, Jasmine Guy, Cree Summer, and Darryl M. Bell! These beloved characters are returning in a major way that respects their history while engaging exciting storylines that are relevant to issues of today," they shared in a joint statement.
They continued, "Throughout the season, fans will have a chance to reunite with these O.G. characters and see how their lives have evolved into 'A Different World.' And as the story unfolds, there will be more cast surprises in store for longtime fans. We can't wait for lovers of the show to experience this new chapter as a real continuation of the legacy show, and we're excited to welcome new audiences to Hillman."
The series centers on Deborah Wayne (Maleah Joi Moon), the youngest daughter of Hillman College's finest, Dwayne Wayne (Hardison) and Whitney Gilbert (Guy), as she enters her freshman year at their HBCU alma mater and finds the shadow of her parents difficult to escape. She sets out to build her own legacy – while having the time of her life – alongside a whole new generation of Hillman's best and brightest.
Summer returns as Freddie Brooks and Bell as Ron "Ronaldus" Johnson, as Whitley would call him. The new cast also includes Alijah Kai as Rashida, Chibuikem Uche as Kojo, Cornell Young IV as Shaquille, Jordan Aaron Hall as Amir, and Kennedi Reece as Hazel.
Netflix ordered a pilot back in March, followed by an order to series last month. Deadline broke the news last August that a sequel series of A Different World was in the works at the streamer. The show received a series order last month.
The original A Different World, a spinoff of The Cosby Show, followed Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet) and her new classmates at Hillman College, a fictional historically Black college. Though Bonet exited after one season, the show continued with the leading cast of Guy, Hardison, Dawnn Lewis, Bell, Sinbad, Charnele Brown, Summer, and Glynn Turman.
The retooled second season continued to follow the students' lives, with the love story between Guy's Whitley Gilbert and Hardison's Dwayne Wayne at the center. Dwayne, famous for his glasses that flipped up, finally put a ring on it in the Season 5 episode "Save the Best For Last." Though Whitley was adamant she didn't want children, she discovers she's pregnant in "When One Door Closes," the penultimate episode of the series, and everyone is elated. However, things get somber when Dwayne reveals he's accepted a job in Japan, where he and his wife will raise their family — a different world.
The A Different World sequel comes from Pride, Allen, and Mandy Summers, Tom Werner, Gina Prince-Bythewood, and Reggie Bythewood. Allen, Werner, Prince-Bythewood, and Bythewood all worked on the original multi-camera series, which ran on NBC for six seasons with Carsey-Werner producing. Bill Cosby created both shows.
Hardison is repped by Global Artists Agency and Untitled Entertainment; Guy is repped by Kass Management; Summer is repped by Innovative Artists and Untitled Entertainment; Bell is repped by Mosaic.
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