Netflix’s Follow -Up for “A Different World” has added six cast members to the pilot, Variety Has learned from sources.
Chibuikem Uche is cast like Kojo together with Maleah Joi Moon as Deborah, Cornell Young as Shaquille, Jordan Aaron Hall as Amir, Alijah Kai Haggins such as Rashida and Kennedi McClure as Hazel.
Netflix refused to comment.
The follow -up of “another world” was first reported under development in August 2024, whereby the pilot was announced in March. As reported at that time, the new series would return to Hillman College, a fictional historic Black University, and follow the daughter of the original Series characters Whitley and Dwayne.
Felicia Pride serves as a writer, executive producer and showrunner in the project. Debbie Allen, Mandy Summers, Tom Werner, Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reggie Bytgie Bythewood also serve as executive producers. Werner produced the original show via The Carsey-Werner Company, while all of the 144 episodes of the original also produced and directed. Sources say she would also lead the new pilot.
“Another world” started as a spider -off of “The Cosby Show” and followed Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet) while she goes to Hillman. But after Bonet had left the series after the first season, the focus shifted to characters played by Jasmine Guy, Kadeem Hardison, Dawnn Lewis, Gynn Turman, Cory Tyler, Lou Myers, Darryl M. Bell, Cree Summer and Charnele Brown.
Netflix has shun a traditional pilot process for the most part of its history and only announced their first pilot order ever in 2023. Instead, the streamer has focused on legal-to-series orders or script-to-series deals for their shows. But Netflix also said earlier that it would never have advertisements on the service to offer an advertisement-supported layer in November 2022.