Archie Bunker and George Jefferson are getting a casting makeover, but they’ll be saying the same things that entertained (and outraged) millions when first uttered in the 1970s.
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and groundbreaking TV producer Norman Lear are reviving the two classic characters Wednesday, with Woody Harrelson as Archie and Jamie Foxx as George, in ABC’s “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s ‘All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons’” (8 EDT/PDT). Kimmel and Lear will host the 90-minute special, which will feature an episode of each series from the original script.
The star-studded cast also includes Marisa Tomei, Wanda Sykes, Kerry Washington, Will Ferrell, Anthony Anderson, Ellie Kemper, Sean Hayes and Justina Machado, who starred in Netflix’s recently canceled adaptation of another Lear classic, “One Day at a Time.”
