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Thirty-nine years to nan time that nan original A Different World premiered successful 1987, its Netflix sequel bid of nan aforesaid sanction will besides premiere successful 2026: September 24. The single-camera drama will person 10 half-hour episodes.
The streamer released cardinal creation and a video teaser for nan show featuring prima Maleah Joi Moon, who plays Deborah Wayne, nan girl of Hillman College royalty, Whitley Gilbert (Jasmine Guy) and Dwayne Wayne (Kadeem Hardison). What makes nan assets other typical is that nan youngest Wayne is wearing a brace of flip-up glasses, conscionable for illustration her daddy made celebrated successful nan OG series.
You tin spot nan cardinal creation successful afloat beneath and nan video clip above.
Moon is presently successful Miami alongside showrunner/executive shaper Felicia Pride and executive producer/director Debbie Allen arsenic portion of nan Black Television astatine nan American Black Film Festival, wherever they are publically speaking astir nan bid for nan first time.
A Different World returns to Hillman College pinch a caller people stepping onto field — and beloved faces coming home. At nan halfway is Deborah Wayne (Moon), Whitley and Dwayne’s lovingly sheltered youngest daughter, a free tone pinch a flair for nan spotlight and a large bosom who’s still figuring retired her ain way astatine Hillman.
Along nan way, she’s joined by a caller procreation that reflects nan breadth of Black life connected campus: Rashida Duvall (Alijah Kai), a first‑gen criminal justness major; Shaquille Johnson (Cornell Young IV), a five‑star jock choosing legacy; Amir Rodale (Jordan Aaron Hall), a crisp psych awesome amended astatine fixing everyone else’s problems than facing his own; Hazel Henry (Kennedi Reece), a church‑raised small‑town woman defining her ain values; and Kojo Achebe (Chibuikem Uche), a Ghanaian‑Nigerian manner entrepreneur uncovering nan courageousness to travel his vision.
There’s besides a slew of original bid actors returning to reprise their roles, including Guy, Hardison, Cree Summer, and Darryl M. Bell.
The caller cardinal creation tin beryllium recovered below.
