Amazon Latinxs 'I Love Lucy'

[Mark Jeffries]

Mexican actress Natalia Tellez is about to be compared to the Queen of Comedy Lucille Ball as she's about to play Lucy in "All for Lucy," Prime Video's upcoming reboot of the OG sitcom--with Fred and Ethel replaced by, uh, Fredrico and Esteban:

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2021/09/30/amazon-prime-video-to-release-reimagined-version-of-i-love-lucy-388113/20210930amazon02/

The show is produced by the Spanish-language division of EndemolShine (whose credits besides scripted series are the Mexican versions of "MasterChef" and "The Masked Singer"), but will presumably be shot in English.  ViacomCBS licensed the "Lucy" format, which begs the question of whether it was pitched to Paramount+.