A Different World to Return Featuring Dwayne and Whitley's Daughter

Earlier this year the cast from the hit college sitcom, "A Different World," reunited for a ten city HBCU tour [click here if you missed that]. 

Now the series is set to return featuring the daughter of Jasmine Guy and Kadeem Hardison's characters, Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert...

From Deadline

An A Different World sequel series chronicling Dwayne and Whitley’s daughter’s time at Hillman College, is in early development at Netflix, sources tell Deadline. The project comes from writer/executive producer Felicia Pride (Bel-Air, Grey’s Anatomy) and executive producers Debbie Allen, Mandy Summers, Tom Werner, Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reggie Bythewood.

Netflix declined to comment for this story.

Allen, Werner, Prince-Bythewood and Bythewood all worked on the original hit NBC series, a spinoff of The Cosby Show, which ran for six seasons. Allen was director-producer, Prince-Bythewood and Bythewood were writers, and Werner executive produced for The Carsey-Werner Company.