EXCLUSIVE: A sequel to A Different World, chronicling Dwayne and Whitley's daughter's time at Hillman College, is in early development at Netflix, sources tell Deadline. The single-cam, half-hour comedy hails from writer/executive producer Felicia Pride (Bel-Air, Grey's Anatomy) and executive producers Debbie Allen, Mandy Summers, Tom Werner, Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reggie Bythewood.
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Allen, Werner, Prince-Bythewood and Bythewood all worked on the original NBC hit series, a spinoff of The Cosby Show, which ran for six seasons. Allen was director-producer, Prince-Bythewood and Bythewood were writers, and Werner was executive producer for The Carsey-Werner Company.
A Different World followed Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet) and her new classmates at Hillman College, a fictional historically black university. Though Bonet left after one season, the series continued with the main cast of Jasmine Guy, Kadeem Hardison, Dawnn Lewis, Darryl M. Bell, Sinbad, Charnele Brown, Cree Summer, and Glynn Turman.
