ABC has adapted the Broadway play, A Raisin In The Sun, and will air the revival directly after the 2008 Oscar telecast. The film will reunite director Kenny Leon with the cast of the acclaimed revivial- Sean Diddy Combs, Sanaa Lathan, Audra McDonald and Phylicia Rashad. Also reprising his stage role is Bill Nunn as Bobo. Also featured in the adaptation are John Stamos as Carl Lindner, Sean Patrick Thomas as George, David Oyelowo as Asagai, Justin Martin as Travis, Ron C. Jones as Willy and Emily Swiss as Priscilla.

A Raisin in the Sun tells the story of three generations of a family living and struggling together under one roof. The Youngers—Mama (Rashad), her children Beneatha (Lathan) and Walter Lee (Combs), and his wife Ruth (McDonald) and their son Travis—live on Chicago’s South Side in the 1950s. It is a place in which dreams, like the raisin in the Langston Hughes’ poem from which the play takes its title, wither and die if nothing is done with them.