A pair of IP-based initiatives at Amazon aren’t shifting ahead after a number of years of improvement.
The tech large’s Freevee streaming service has scuttled a sequel to the Eighties sitcom Who’s The Boss?, which had authentic collection stars Tony Danza and Alyssa Milano hooked up to reprise their roles. Amazon MGM Studios, in the meantime, has pulled the plug on a Bosch spinoff centering on Jamie Hector’s character, Detective Jerry Edgar.
The Who’s the Boss? sequel discovered a house at Freevee in 2022 after two years in improvement at Sony Photos Tv, which owns the rights to the authentic collection. Milano was set to star as Samantha Micelli, now a single mom residing in the similar home the place she grew up in the authentic present, which ran from 1984-92 on ABC. Danza was additionally set to return as her father, now retired.
Mike Royce and Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz (Netflix and Pop TV’s One Day at a Time) got here aboard as writers and govt producers when the present landed at Freevee. The late Norman Lear, whose Embassy Communications produced the authentic, was additionally amongst the govt producers.
As for Bosch, the Jerry Edgar present was one among two spinoffs Amazon MGM introduced have been in improvement early final yr. The opposite, centering on Detective Renée Ballard, acquired a collection order in November 2023; Maggie Q is taking part in the title character, the head of a brand new chilly case unit in the LAPD, with John Carroll Lynch additionally starring. (Bosch: Legacy, Amazon’s continuation of the important Bosch collection, can also be set to finish with its third season in 2025.)
Michael Connelly, writer of the Harry Bosch novels on which all the exhibits are primarily based, was set to govt produce the Edgar present with Laurence Andries and Fabel Leisure’s Henrik Bastin and Melissa Aouate.
