'The Waltons: Homecoming' film

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The Walton family is back for the CW’s The Waltons’ Homecoming, premiering Nov. 28 at 8 p.m. ET, and Richard Thomas will serve as the narrator on Homecoming while passing the baton (of John Boy) to Logan Shroyer.

‘The Waltons: Homecoming’ is a film special set in the Depression Era and told through the eyes of John Boy, the 17-year-old eldest child of John (Ben Lawson) and Olivia Walton (Bellamy Young). His mother expects him to help her raise his sisters and brothers, and his father expects him to follow in his footsteps to help support the family, but secretly, John Boy wants to be a writer.

Executive producer Sam Haskell revealed he was upfront with the CW about the importance of faith remaining an integral part of the new series. “In my initial conversations with Mark Pedowitz, the chairman of the CW, I told him that there was going to be a faith element in this and he embraced it completely,” Haskell said. “And he feels as I do that putting faith and family and hope and joy front and center, it’s something this world needs right now. And I believe that The Waltons’ Homecoming is going to bring that to families. He and I both know that families watching something together is very rare these days. And this is the kind of program that can bring an entire family together.”

https://deadline.com/2021/11/richard-thomas-the-waltons-homecoming-1234871532/

[Aristus]

1. As long as they don't turn it into a right-wing Jesus extravaganza.

Despite its rural setting, the original series "The Waltons" was pretty liberal in its outlook, with creator Earl Hamner, Jr., Ralph Waite as John Walton, and Will Geer as Grandpa Walton being liberal icons.