The special is being produced by Jimmy Kimmel and Norman Lear, whose iconic shows All in the Family, Good Times and The Jeffersons were previously given the Live in Front of a Studio Audience treatment in 2019. The series was a spinoff of Diff’rent Strokes, which will also be getting a star-studded reinvention on Tuesday, December 7. The story centered on Edna (the late Charlotte Rae) as she teaches the girls of Eastland School valuable life lessons they wouldn’t find in the classroom.Īcross its nine seasons, the show spawned three made-for-TV movies: The Facts of Life Goes to Paris in 1982, The Facts of Life Down Under in 1987 and The Facts of Life Reunion in 2001. The Facts of Life originally aired on NBC from 1979 to 1988, becoming one of the longest-running sitcoms of the ’80s.

The character was formerly the housekeeper for the Drummond family on Diff’rent Strokes, which ran for eight seasons from 1978 to 1985. TV throwback! Jennifer Aniston, Kathryn Hahn and more major stars are set to put a fresh take on the classic 1970s sitcom The Facts of Life in a new Live in Front of a Studio Audience special.ĪBC confirmed on Monday, November 29, that the primetime event would air the following week featuring the Friends alum, 52, and the WandaVision star, 48, as Blair Warner (originally played by Lisa Whelchel) and Jo Polniczek ( Nancy McKeon), respectively, two students at an all-girls high school in upstate New York.Īniston and the Parks and Recreation alum will be joined by Gabrielle Union and Allison Tolman, with Ann Dowd portraying the dorm’s housemother Edna Garrett.

Nobody wanna see us together cast