NBC Universal has you covered with the premiere of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Bel-Air, if you don't like the Super Bowl performance by Dr. Dre and Snoop.
On Super Bowl Sunday, the first three episodes of the new series will be released on the Peacock app.
If it is not obvious from the trailer, this will not be the same show you remember with an elementary-school aged Ashley blessing the meal with a few bars in front of Uncle Phil's business colleagues. The new Will leaving West Philadelphia will be a big fight that puts his life in jeopardy, and this show will be a dramatic, more tough Fresh Prince.
I am willing to give it a try, even though it may be a bit heavy after a Sunday spent eating cheese and beer. I am interested in the new Carlton and Jazz. Carlton in this version of the show is not a singer in the glee club. He is a lacrosse player and a member of the student council. I want to see if this new Carlton is the one from American Pie. Carlton's half-court heave from the sitcom is one of the best images of all time, and it was created nearly two decades before the invention of the internet.
The person who picked Will up from the airport is Will's best friend, so it makes sense that the person who drove him to Bel-Air Jazz is also the one who picked him up. George Kohler and Michael Jordan are friends. I hope Jazz is still a DJ. Jazz would be a nice twist on the guy who kept getting launched out of the Banks house for harassing Hillary.
The new Will is played by Jabari Banks. A person has no acting experience. He graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 2020. Banks is a musician and a basketball player. The dunk in the trailer looked realistic.
Will Smith is an executive producer on the show, along with the original team from the sitcom. The show runners are T.J. Brady and Newson. The inspiration for this whole series is the person who made the viral video in 2019. Morgan Cooper made a mock trailer for a remake of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, which he thought would be a drama in the Gen-Z age. Cooper will be an executive producer on the new series.
The project has been approached with care. The people who made the show we love are working with a new generation of Hollywood to create something that is not simply re-imagining Will, Carlton, Uncle Phil, Aunt Viv and the whole family for the 2020s. It is attempting to take a deep dive into those characters and the struggles that they would have had to go through as, all of a sudden, this tight-knit Black family that has been fighting the world and achieved the American dream, in Hollywood, now has to continue that fight.
It is a great idea. I will be watching it on the screen.
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