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 is reporting 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 writtone_day_at_a_timeen 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.
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
