Class will be back in session at Hillman College in the fall.
Netflix announced Wednesday that A Different World, a sequel to the 1987-93 NBC sitcom centered on students at an HBCU, will premiere in the fall. Several members of the original cast will reprise their roles alongside a new group of actors playing Hillman students, and the show’s creative team also includes alumni of the original.
Along with the premiere announcement for A Different World, Netflix announced a few new series orders at is upfront: The Retrievals from Maid and Sirens creator Molly Smith Metzler; Barbaric, based on the comic book by Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden; Myron Bolitar, from David E. Kelley and author Harlan Coben; and teen drama Calabasas, from Bridgerton creator Chris Van Dusen and the L.A. exurb’s most famous resident, Kim Kardashian.
A Different World centers on Deborah (Maleah Joi Moon), the youngest child of Whitley (Jasmine Guy) and Dwayne Wayne (Kadeem Hardison) who is beginning her first year at Hillman, her parents’ alma mater. “She finds the shadow of her parents difficult to escape as she sets out to build her own legacy, while having the time of her life, alongside a whole new generation of Hillman’s best and brightest,” the show’s logline reads.
