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ABC’s new ‘Women of the Movement’ about Emmett Till’s mother

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May 28, 2021 Category: Entertainment Posted by:

ABOVE PHOTO: Cedric Joe as Emmett Till, left, and Adrienne Warren as Mamie Till-Mobley in “Women of the Movement.” (Matt Sayles. ABC via AP)

By David Bauder

ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — ABC will air a short-run series “Women of the Movement” next season about Mamie Till-Mobley, whose son Emmett Till became a symbol of the civil rights movement after he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955.

The network, which announced its plans for the next television season on Tuesday, is also reviving “The Wonder Years,” this time with a Black cast that will feature Don Cheadle as the adult narrator.

ABC said its popular comedy “black-ish” will conclude its run next year after eight seasons. It will return in midseason so the final episodes can run straight through.

Till-Mobley made sure Americans didn’t forget about her son, a Chicago resident killed while visiting relatives in the South, and memorably insisted upon an open casket to display his broken body. Actor Will Smith and rapper Jay-Z are on the production team working on the midseason series.

Fred Savage, who starred in “The Wonder Years” when it ran originally on ABC from 1988 to 1993, directed the pilot episode of the new version and is a producer of the series.

It is one of two new series debuting on ABC in the fall. “Queens” features musicians Eve and Brandy in a series about four women from a 1990s-era hip-hop group who reunite in their 40s to try to recapture some of their glory years,

The network’s other new series are “Abbott Elementary,” a workplace comedy set in a Philadelphia public school, and “Maggie,” about a woman psychic.

Comic Jimmy Kimmel made his annual appearance for the network’s presentation of its new schedule to advertisers, for the second straight year  virtually. His jokes about broadcast television rapidly losing relevance in a world dominated by streaming services had particular bite.

“We should call ABC for what it really is — Disney minus,” Kimmel said.

He said the theme for next year’s advertising presentation should be “dying together.”

“Isn’t there something to be said for dying with dignity?” he said.

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