A pair of IP-based tasks at Amazon aren’t transferring ahead after a number of years of growth.
The tech big’s Freevee streaming service has scuttled a sequel to the Nineteen Eighties sitcom Who’s The Boss?, which had authentic sequence stars Tony Danza and Alyssa Milano connected 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 growth at Sony Footage Tv, which owns the rights to the unique sequence. Milano was set to star as Samantha Micelli, now a single mom residing in the identical home the place she grew up within 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 government producers when the present landed at Freevee. The late Norman Lear, whose Embassy Communications produced the unique, was additionally among the many government producers.
As for Bosch, the Jerry Edgar present was one in every of two spinoffs Amazon MGM introduced had been in growth early final yr. The opposite, centering on Detective Renée Ballard, received a sequence order in November 2023; Maggie Q is taking part in the title character, the top of a brand new chilly case unit within the LAPD, with John Carroll Lynch additionally starring. (Bosch: Legacy, Amazon’s continuation of the primary Bosch sequence, can be set to finish with its third season in 2025.)
Michael Connelly, writer of the Harry Bosch novels on which all of the reveals are based mostly, was set to government produce the Edgar present with Laurence Andries and Fabel Leisure’s Henrik Bastin and Melissa Aouate.