It seemed inevitable that the trend of TV revivals would eventually reach The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and indeed, some confusion erupted when Will Smith’s production company began development of a suspiciously-similar fish-out-of-water story. That never came to pass, but thankfully Smith now says he’d only consider a Fresh Prince revival “when hell freezes over.”
Actor James Avery, who played Uncle Phil on the popular, long-running 90's sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, has passed away. The New Jersey-born Avery was raised in Atlantic City.