House of Payne is staging a new comeback. BET has today announced a new revival season of the hit comedy from Tyler Perry. Moreover, the cable network has given a series order to new comedy Assisted Living also from Perry.
The original series stars of House of Payne - including LaVan Davis, Cassi Davis Patton, Lance Gross, Demetria McKinney, China Anne McClain, Larramie "Doc" Shaw, Keshia Knight Pulliam and Allen Payne - are set to return.
Set five years later, retired fire chief Curtis Payne and his lovely wife Ella continue to navigate the problems of life with their quirky modern-day family.
Tyler Perry will write and direct the ninth season of the comedy. He will executive produce with Michelle Sneed. Tyler Perry Studios will produce.
The comedy aired for eight seasons on TBS from 2007-2012 and produced 254 episodes. The spinoff series The Paynes aired in 2018 on OWN and produced 38 episodes across a single season.
In Assisted Living, after losing his job, Jeremy, a patriarch of a young family with teenage children, decides to move to the backwoods of Georgia to help his crazy grandfather. Grandpa Vinny has foolishly purchased a terribly run-down home for the elderly and he is in way over his head, but comedy ensues as Mr. Brown and Cora show up at the right time as needy investors.
The comedy stars David Mann, Tamela Mann, J. Anthony Brown, Na'im Lynn, Courtney Nichole, Tayler Buck and Alex Henderson.
Perry will write and direct the comedy. He will executive produce with Michelle Sneed. Tyler Perry Studios will produce.
Both comedies have begun production at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta and are set to premiere on BET this summer.
