Last week, Netflix’s April 2024 trailer gave us a quick glimpse of what’s to come with showrunner Ranada Shepard’s (Born Again Virgin) animated reimagining of the classic comedy Good Times. Produced by Seth MacFarlane (American Dad!, The Orville) and past by TV icon Norman Lear, the broadcast series is a bold and irreverent reinvention of the television era through the eyes of a new generation of the Evans family looking to stay afloat in a Chicago housing project. We just got a sneak peek at the animated series through an official trailer, a key art poster, and new preview photographs, and we like what we’re seeing.
Netflix’s Good Times stars J. B. Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm) and Yvette Nicole Brown (Community) as Reggie and Beverly Evans, the heads of the family. Jay Pharoah (Saturday Night Live, The Blackening) plays his teenage artist son, Junior. Marsai Martin (Black-ish, Little) plays his activist daughter, Grey. Slink Johnson (Black Jesus) voices his drug-dealing grandson, Dalvin. Series Rashida “Sheedz” Olayiwola (Jury Duty) plays Beverly’s most productive entrepreneurial friend, Lashes through Lisa. Lear, Venus DeMilo Thomas and Jessica Mikayla also lend their voices. Now, here’s a look at the set of most recent preview photographs, with the animated series coming to Netflix on April 12.
Airing for six seasons on CBS, from 1974 to 1979, the series created by Mike Evans and Eric Monte evolved and produced through Lear. Beginning as a spin-off of the Lear Maude comedy (which is a spin-off of All in the Family), the series, the first African-American two-parent family sitcom on television. Focusing on everyday life in Florida and James Evans and his three children in downtown Chicago, Good Times featured John Amos, Esther Rolle, Ja’net Dubois, Ralph Carter, Jimmie Walker, Bern Nadette Stanis, Janet Jackson and more.
Lear’s Act III Productions, Curry’s Unanimous Media, MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door and Sony Pictures TV developed the project, with Shepard and Carl Jones serving as executive producers, along with Lear and Brent Miller of Act III Productions, Stephen Curry, Erick Peyton and Jeron Smith Unanime. and MacFarlane and Erica Huggins Fuzzy Door. Sony Pictures Television produces.
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