‘Who’s The Boss?’ Sequel Series Dropped By Amazon Freevee

It looks like Tony Danza is not the “boss” at Amazon Freevee.

Amazon MGM Studios has dropped plans for a continuation of the long-running Tony Danza sitcom Who’s the Boss? The project, which was originally announced in 2022 from the late producer Norman Lear, would have reunited Danza and his former TV daughter Alyssa Milano as Tony and Samantha Micelli. Set 30 years after the events of the original series, the sequel was centered on now single mother Samantha living in the family house.

At the time, Milano said she hoped that the new series could be developed “in a way that really stays true to that whole progressive thing that we had in the 1980s while still tapping into today’s issues.”

Debuting in September 1984, Who’s the Boss? featured Danza as a widower and former Major League Baseball player who moves with his young daughter from Brooklyn, New York to the upscale suburb of Fairfield, Connecticut after retiring due to a shoulder injury. There he works as a live-in housekeeper for divorced advertising executive Angela Bower (Angela Light) and her young son Jonathan (Danny Pintauro). Also appearing was Angela's feisty mother Mona Robinson (Katherine Helmond), who proved so popular that a spin-off sitcom focused on the Mona character was in the works (but did not move forward).

Who’s the Boss? on ABC aired for eight seasons, producing 196 episodes. At the height of its popularity, it finished No. 6 overall in primetime in its fourth season.