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'The Wonder Years' Canceled After 2 Seasons On ABC - Blavity

Fans of the Williams family on The Wonder Years must say a sad goodbye as the ABC dramedy has been canceled after two seasons. Deadline reports that the reboot of the popular 1980s sitcom starring Fred Savage suffered in the ratings department. Even though Season 2’s finale earned 1 million total viewers, that still wasn’t enough for ABC to keep the show for a third season. The Wonder Years starred Elisha Williams as Dean, a boy growing up in late 1960s Montgomery, AL, with his middle-class family. With the worst of the Civil Rights Movement behind and the Black Power movement ahead, the series chronicled the family’s ups and downs as they faced societal changes, family situations and coming-of-age lessons. The series also starred Dulé Hill, Saycon Sengbloh, Laura Kariuki, Spence Moore II, Milan Ray, Julian Lerner, Amari O’Neil and Allen Maldonado, with Yvonne Orji, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Patti LaBelle and Richard Gant guest-starring . Kariuki and Sengbloh talked to Shadow and Act...

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