The long-rumored Latino family remake of Norman Lear’s classic sitcom
One Day At A Time
has landed at
Netflix
with a 13-episode straight-to-series order, and Deadline has learned exclusively that the show will co-star Oscar and Emmy winner
Rita Moreno
. Sony Pictures TV, which owns rights to Lear’s library, is the studio.
The reimagining of the 1975 series was writt
en by
How I Met Your Mother
alumna Gloria Calderon Kellett and sitcom veteran Mike Royce (
Everybody Loves Raymond
). The multi-camera comedy revolves around a Cuban-American family, centering on a recently separated former military mom who is navigating a new single life while raising her radical teenaged daughter and socially adept tween son, with the “help” of her old school Cuban-born mom and a friends-without-benefits building manager named Schneider. Moreno will play the grandmother.
Royce and Kellett executive produce alongside Lear, Michael Garcia and Brent Miller.
One Day At A Time
— produced by Act III Productions, Snowpants Productions and Small Fish Studios in association with Sony TV — is one of a couple of classic Lear sitcoms that he had been discussing for potential reboots, including
All In The Family
.
One Day At A Time
, developed by Lear and created by Whitney Blake and Allan Manings, ran on CBS for nine seasons. It starred Bonnie Franklin as the divorced mother and co-starring Valerie Bartinelli and Pat Harrington, who
died last week
. Here are the opening credits:
One Day At A Time
expands Netflix’s push into multi-camera comedies as the series joins the upcoming
Full House
follow-up series
Fuller House
and the Ashton Kutcher sitcom
The Ranch
. It also expands Sony TV’s relationship with Netflix where the studio has
Bloodline
and the upcoming Baz Luhrman drama series
The Get Down.
Moreno, who is recurring on the CW’s
Jane The Virgin
, is repped by Innovative Artists. Kellett, whose recent credits include
iZombie
and
Mixology,
is repped by UTA and Odenkirk-Provissiero. Royce is repped by UTA.