CBS Developing ‘The Honeymooners’ Series Reboot With Damon Wayans Jr. Executive Producing
Deadline is reporting that CBS is developing a reimagining of The Honeymooners, the 1950s sitcom created by and starring Jackie Gleason. The multi-camera project with a feminist twist hails from Damon Wayans Jr. and Kameron Tarlow’s Two Shakes Entertainment and CBS Studios where the company has been based.
Described as a bold and female-driven story, The Honeymooners reboot will be directed by Kelly Park from a screenplay written by Lindsey Shockley.
“It centers around new wife Ruth and her husband Alex who are determined to have a marriage where they are true equals in every way,” reads the logline. “But what happens when a marriage has two heads of the household? Are they co-heads? Or no head at all?”
The original Honeymooners was based on a recurring comedy sketch of the same name that had been part of Gleason’s variety show, The Jackie Gleason show. The sitcom aired for one season on CBS from 1955-1956. Mostly set in the Kramdens’ kitchen in a Brooklyn apartment building, the sitcom starred Gleeson, Audrey Meadows, Art Carney, and Joyce Randolph.
Shockley most recently served as executive producer on the Black-ish spinoff Mixed-ish. Before that, she spent five years on Black-ish, rising from producer to executive producer and sharing in three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series.
Park has directed two pilots to date: ABC’s Black Don’t Crack this past season and the opening episode of Netflix’s Country Comfort. Her episodic directing credits include Fox’s Call Me Kat, Netflix’s Grace and Frankie and Family Reunion and four reboots/revivals in Mad About You for Spectrum, Punky Brewster for Peacock, The Game for Paramount+ and How I Met Your Father for Hulu.
