‘Who’s the Boss?’ Sequel Scrapped at Amazon

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A pair of IP-based projects at Amazon aren’t moving forward after several years of development.

The tech giant’s Freevee streaming service has scuttled a sequel to the 1980s sitcom Who’s The Boss?, which had original series stars Tony Danza and Alyssa Milano attached to reprise their roles. Amazon MGM Studios, meanwhile, has pulled the plug on a Bosch spinoff centering on Jamie Hector’s character, Detective Jerry Edgar.

The Who’s the Boss? sequel found a home at Freevee in 2022 after two years in development at Sony Pictures Television, which owns the rights to the original series. Milano was set to star as Samantha Micelli, now a single mother living in the same house where she grew up in the original show, which ran from 1984-92 on ABC. Danza was also set to return as her father, now retired.

Mike Royce and Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz (Netflix and Pop TV’s One Day at a Time) came aboard as writers and executive producers when the show landed at Freevee. The late Norman Lear, whose Embassy Communications produced the original, was also among the executive producers.

As for Bosch, the Jerry Edgar show was one of two spinoffs Amazon MGM announced were in development early last year. The other, centering on Detective Renée Ballard, got a series order in November 2023; Maggie Q is playing the title character, the head of a new cold case unit in the LAPD, with John Carroll Lynch also starring. (Bosch: Legacy, Amazon’s continuation of the main Bosch series, is also set to end with its third season in 2025.)

Michael Connelly, author of the Harry Bosch novels on which all the shows are based, was set to executive produce the Edgar show with Laurence Andries and Fabel Entertainment’s Henrik Bastin and Melissa Aouate.

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