Original movies back at ABC with fall pair

August 17, 2007 Mitch Albom's For One More Day, which will air Dec. 9, and Sean Combs, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron's adaptation of the play A Raisin In the Sun, which will air Feb. 25, the night after the network's live broadcast of the 80th Annual Academy Awards. "Sun," an adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's play about a family living and struggling on Chicago's South Side in the 1950s, features the primary cast of the play's Broadway revival, led by Combs, Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald and Sanaa Lathan, along with "ER" star John Stamos. Zadan and Meron's Storyline Entertainment, Combs' Bad Boy World Wide Entertainment Group and Sony Pictures TV are producing the movie, which is exec produced by Zadan, Meron, Combs and the show's Broadway producers, Carl Rumbaugh, Susan Batson and David Binder.

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