Will falls for a blind date of Geoffrey's and tries to impress her. Football and baseball player BO JACKSON and musician QUINCY JONES guest star as themselves.ĩ - "SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL BE IN EFFECT - PART 2" October 10, 2005 Will and Carlton compete to get a date for a family Halloween party. Will and Carlton are arrested and accused of committing a string of auto thefts.ħ - "DEF POET'S SOCIETY" September 26, 2005Īt Uncle Philip's insistence Will joins his prep school's poetry club, and he enlists Geoffrey's help when he must present a "poet" for a reading.Ĩ - "SOMEDAY YOUR PRINCE WILL BE IN EFFECT - PART 1" October 3, 2005 When Philip's parents visit from North Carolina, they embarrass him with stories of his poor rural background and his pet pig.ĥ - "HOMEBOY, SWEET HOMEBOY" September 12, 2005Ī shady character named "Ice Tray" (DON CHEADLE), one of Will's "homeboys" from Philadelphia, comes to Bel-Air for a visit.Ħ - "MISTAKEN IDENTITY" September 19, 2005
Will wants to go out with a beautiful girl he meets at the country club, but first he must figure out how to impress her extremely snobbish and very protective father.Ĥ - "NOT WITH MY PIG, YOU DON'T" September 8, 2005 Will Smith is transplanted from the tough streets of Philadelphia to live with his wealthy relatives in Bel Air, causing everyone to make major adjustments in their way of living and in their their way of thinking.Ģ - "BANG THE DRUM, ASHLEY" September 6, 2005Īshley's father wants her to continue with her violin lessons, but Will has other ideas. Season 1 (1990–1991) Corus YTV Canada Septemand February 15, 2006ġ - "THE FRESH PRINCE PROJECT" September 5, 2005
Holmes is repped by Greene Talent and Play Management.
The series will be filmed in Los Angeles and Philadelphia.
Westbrook Studios and Universal TV serve as the studios. Also executive producing are Smith, Terence Carter, James Lassiter, Miguel Melendez, Malcolm Spellman, Quincy Jones, Benny Medina and Andy & Susan Borowitz. Morgan Cooper directs and serves as co-writer and executive producer. Brady and Rasheed Newson serve as executive producers and co-showrunners. With a reimagined vision, Bel-Air will dive deeper into the inherent conflicts, emotions and biases that were impossible to fully explore in a 30-minute sitcom format, while still delivering swagger and nods to the original show.īel-Air, based on Morgan Cooper’s popular fan film that re-envisions the original series, hails from Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios and Universal Television. Set in modern-day America, Bel-Air, which has a two-season order, is a serialized one-hour dramatic take on the 1990-96 sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air that leans into the original premise: Will’s complicated journey from the streets of West Philadelphia to the gated mansions of Bel-Air. Simone Joy Jones ( The Chair) as Lisa (played by Nia Long) Jones ( Rel) as Jazz (played by DJ Jazzy Jeff) Jimmy Akingbola ( Most Dangerous Game) as Geoffrey (played by Joseph Marcell) Olly Sholotan ( Run Hide Fight) as Carlton Banks (played by Alfonso Ribeiro) Ĭoco Jones ( Let It Shine) as Hilary Banks (played by Karyn Parsons) Īkira Akbar ( We Can Be Heroes) as Ashley Banks (played by Tatyana M. The role was played by James Avery on Fresh Prince Ĭassandra Freeman ( Atlanta) as Vivian Banks (played by Janet Hubert/Daphne Maxwell Reid)
Adrian Holmes ( At That Age) as Phillip Banks.