Alyssa Milano and Tony Danza attached to reprise their roles in the sequel to the 1980s sitcom Who’s the Boss is headed to Amazon’s Freevee streaming service. The writers of the show are One Day at a Time alums Mike Royce and Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz, which hails from Sony Pictures Television.
The sequel is described as Milano’s Samantha Micelli, a single mother who lives in the same house where she grew up on the original series. Her retired dad, Tony (Danza), lives with her. There’s no word yet on whether Judith Light and Danny Pintauro will also reprise their roles; Katherine Helmond, who also starred in the original, died in 2019.
The show ‘Who’s the boss’ ran from 1984-92 on ABC, created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, and produced by Norman Lear’s Embassy Communications, which Sony acquired as part of its 1991 deal for Columbia Pictures.
Lear and his Act III Productions partner Brent Miller will executive produce Who’s the Boss with Royce, Muñoz-Liebowitz, Milano, Danza and Dan Farah of Farah Films, who brought the sequel to Sony with the two stars attached.
Freevee (formerly IMDb TV) currently streams the first two seasons of the original series, and Fox-owned streamer Tubi has rights to six seasons.The first reported news is Deadline.
