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A new generation of the Evans family takes center stage in Netflix's Good Times reboot. The original show focused on parents Florida and James, as well as their children Michael, Thelma, and J.J. The 2024 series follows Florida and James' grandson, Reggie, alongside his wife and three kids.

With a new generation of the Evans family taking center stage in Netflix's animated Good Times reboot, it's essential to understand the entire family tree. The original Good Times focuses on the family in the 1970s, while the reboot opts for a new family with the same name and a distant connection to the original. The first Good Times series is ingrained in pop culture, so using the same character names would probably have set the show up to be a disaster.

The Evans family was introduced in 1972, with Florida Evans first appearing as a housekeeper in Maude. Thanks to the character's success with viewers,...

Netflix's animated reboot of Good Times features a talented voice cast of Black actors, continuing the legacy of the iconic 1970s sitcom. The series follows the fourth generation of the Evans family, living in a Chicago housing project, aiming to address social issues and push boundaries. With Seth MacFarlane co-executive producing, the show blends humor and important themes within the context of a working-class Black family.

Netflix's Good Times has an exciting voice cast of Black actors seeking to recreate the magic of the 1970s sitcom with the same title, this time in animation. Airing on CBS from 1974 to 1979, the original series made history for being the first Black two-parent family sitcom. It also garnered praise for its blend of humor and portrayal of significant themes within the context of a working-class Black family. This animated reboot is created by Ranada Shepard and Carl Jones, and co-executive produced by...

This isn’t the Good Times of your childhood.

Yvette Nicole Brown, who voices the character of Beverly Evans in the new animated version of Good Times for Netflix, promises it will be an “edgier, more irreverent” reboot of Norman Lear‘s groundbreaking TV sitcom.

After one of Brown’s followers wrote on X Wednesday that “I’m surprised you attached yourself to this project. Looks nothing like the show we grew up on,” Brown responded with a promise that the reboot will offer as much, if not more, than the original.

“This show is edgier and more irreverent than the Good Times of our childhood but it’s still a show about family, fighting the system and working to make things better despite where you start out in the world,” Brown wrote. “That 100% lines up with my values.”

This show is edgier and more irreverent than the Good Times...

An official trailer has been released for the animated series reboot of Good Times.

Coming to Netflix on April 12, the new Good Times is a modernized new take on the classic sitcom created by Norman Lear. First look images and an official trailer reveal the art style for the animated adaptation, which is a bit more raunchy than the original live-action version that aired on television. The trailer and images can be viewed below.

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Ranada Shepard is the showrunner for the animated series. The voice cast of the new series includes J.B. Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm) as Reggie Evans; Yvette Nicole Brown (Community) as Beverly Evans; Jay Pharoah (Invincible) as Junior Evans; Marsai Martin (Black-ish) as...

Netflix has slotted Friday, April 12 for the premiere of Good Times, the animated series reboot of the late Norman Lear’s groundbreaking TV sitcom. We’re also getting a first look in the trailer above.

J.B. Smoove (Reggie Evans) and Yvette Nicole Brown (Beverly Evans) star along with Jay Pharoah (Junior Evans), Marsai Martin (Grey Evans), Gerald “Slink” Johnson (Dalvin Evans) and Rashida “Sheedz” Olayiwola (Lashes by Lisa)

Per the logline, the animated Good Times series finds the latest generation of the Evans family, cab driver Reggie (Smoove) and his wife, the ever-aspirational Beverly (Brown), scratching and surviving in one of the last remaining housing projects in Chicago along with their teenage artist son, Junior (Pharoah), activist daughter Grey (Martin), and drug dealing infant son, Dalvin (Johnson). It turns out the more things change the more they stay the same and keeping your head above water in a system with...

DVD & Digital Release: Nov. 6, 2013

Price: DVD $26.95

Studio: Tribeca Film/Cinedigm

The story of the 2012 documentary film Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story begins with an earlier documentary, one that was made in 1965.

In ’65, filmmaker Frank De Felitta made a .Mississippi: A Portrait for NBC News about the changing times in the American South and the tensions of life in the Mississippi Delta during the civil rights struggle. The film was broadcast in May 1966 and outraged many Southern viewers, in part, because it included an extraordinary scene featuring a local African-American waiter named Booker Wright. Wright, who worked at a local “whites only” restaurant in Greenwood, Ms. Wright delivered a stunning, heartfelt and inflammatory monologue exploding the myth about who he was and how he felt about his position serving the local white community. The fallout for Booker Wright was extreme: He lost his job and was beaten and ostracized by...

Whenever the annual terrible "Every Breath You Take" mediocre creepy roommate/stalker film gets excreted on the unexpected masses like German porn, the names of the greats are heralded: Single White Female, and Fatal Attraction, and Taxi Driver. Well, of course. But what makes the trend more aggravating is that there have been plenty of recent independent films (in the last decade at least) that are far superior and have gotten little to know love. Are they at the same level as the Grand Prix of Lionel Richie "Hello"? Not necessarily, but they are pretty damn good nonetheless.

The Loved Ones (2009)

Brent (Xavier Samuel) just wanted to spend his prom night with his girlfriend. But Lola (Robin McLeavy), a loner obsessed with Brent, and her crazy father (John Brumpton) decide to kidnap Brent and torture him into loving Lola. Another gruesome entry from the Australia horror market. This was Sean Byrne's first feature film.