Here and Now (TV series)

Here and Now
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Tracy Gamble Jerry Perzigian Don Seigel Richard Vaczy
Written by	Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. Bill Boulware Tracy Gamble Barry Gurstein Brian Kahn Mike Milligan Jay Moriarty Jerry Perzigian Marco Pennette David Pitlik Don Siegel Richard Vaczy
Directed by	John Bowab
Starring	Malcolm-Jamal Warner Charles Brown S. Epatha Merkerson Daryl "Chill" Mitchell Rachael Crawford Jessica Stone Pee Wee Love Shaun Weiss
Opening theme	"Tennessee" by Arrested Development
Composer(s)	Stu Gardner
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	15 (2 unaired)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Bill Cosby George E. Crosby Tracy Gamble Mike Milligan Jay Moriarty Richard Vaczy
Producer(s)	Barry Gurstein David Pitlik
Camera setup	Videotape; Multi-camera
Running time	23 minutes
Production company(s)	SAH Productions, Inc. NBC Productions
Release
Original network	NBC
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Original release	September 19, 1992 – January 2, 1993

Here and Now is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from September 19, 1992 to January 2, 1993. The series starred Malcolm-Jamal Warner in the lead role, who prior to this series co-starred in The Cosby Show which ended its run in April 1992. Bill Cosby served as one on the show's executive producers along with Warner serving as executive consultant credited as M.J. Warner. The song "Tennessee" by Arrested Development was used as the show's theme song.

Alexander "A.J." James (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) is a recent college graduate who majored in psychology now attending post graduate school. He returns to his old neighborhood in Harlem to become a counselor at a local youth center. While working at the center he is living with Sydney (Charles Brown), his non-biological uncle who works as a doorman for a living. The series co-stars included S. Epatha Merkerson as Ms. St. Marth as the head of the youth center (Brenda Pressley played the role in the pilot episode),Daryl "Chill" Mitchell as T, a former delinquent now working at the center, Rachael Crawford as Danielle, Sydney's daughter, A.J's "cousin" and occasional love interest and Jessica Stone as Amy a fellow post grad student attending the same school as A.J., also working at the center. Pee Wee Love and Shaun Weiss also co-starred as A.J.'s counselees, Ramdall and William respectively.

It is commonly mistaken that Here and Now is a spin-off of The Cosby Show. That is not the case, due to the fact Malcolm-Jamal Warner played an entirely different character. This discrepancy is due to the many similarities between the A.J. character and Theo Huxtable, the character that Malcolm-Jamal Warner played on The Cosby Show. Some of similarities were that both characters were psychology majors and worked at community centers (Theo worked at a community center during The Cosby Show's final season). While promoting the show at the time, Warner stated that difference between A.J. and Theo was that A.J. was "more hip and street wise".

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