The 9th Annual TV Land Awards are moving to New York City (celebrity guests will include Bill Cosby and the entire cast of The Cosby Show.

http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/tca-betty-white-front-and-center-hot-in-cleveland-all-my-children-to-cross-over/#more-94209

I wouldn't hold my Breath. Lisa has never been at any Reunion that The Show has ever had.

I wouldn't hold my Breath. Lisa has never been at any Reunion that The Show has ever had.
I guess you were right. I don't think she was there. It looks like she was replaced by Geoffrey Owens.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/04/cast-of-the-cosby-show-minus-lisa-bonet-reunites-at-tv-land-awards.html

Cast of 'The Cosby Show' minus Lisa Bonet reunites at TV Land Awards

April 11, 2011




When is a TV show reunion not a real reunion?

When one of the key cast members is missing.

That's what happened Sunday when the cast of the groundbreaking "The Cosby Show" got together to celebrate the series at the TV Land Awards.

Though most of the cast, including Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Sabrina Le Beauf and Tempestt Bledsoe, attended the festivities, there was one notable absence -- Lisa Bonet, who played teenage daughter Denise when the show premiered.

Spokespersons for the event said Bonet was invited but didn't attend "due to a scheduling conflict." However, her absence was not all that surprising: Bonet has had a fractious relationship with the series, declining to participate in previous retrospectives.

In an interview in the Washington Post in 2002 about her decision to skip an NBC retrospective, "The Cosby Show: A Look Back," Bonet said, "The whole experience and energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit. I felt devalued and disrespected."

Bonet was one of the most popular characters when "The Cosby Show" premiered on NBC in 1984. The sitcom, which featured Cosby and Rashad as the Huxtables, the upscale parents of five children, was credited with reinvigorating NBC and the sitcom format. It also revolutionized the portrayals of African American families on TV.

The actress was the star of a 1987 spin-off, "A Different World," in which her character went off to attend Hillman College, a fictional black school. But she left following the first season after announcing that she and rocker husband Lenny Kravitz were having a baby. She provoked controversy when she appeared nude in the 1987 film "Angel Heart."

Bonet, who changed her name legally to Lilakoi Moon, has appeared sporadically in films during the last several years, and had a featured role in ABC's "Life On Mars" in 2008. She and Kravitz are divorced, but their daughter, Zoe Kravitz, has appeared in several films.

I guess you were right. I don't think she was there. It looks like she was replaced by Geoffrey Owens.
He didn't replace her. He was there, she wasn't! It does suck that all five of the children weren't there though! (Sondra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa & Rudy) (Geoffrey played Sondra's husband, Elvin and Raven Symone played Denise' step-daughter.)

He didn't replace her. He was there, she wasn't! It does suck that all five of the children weren't there though! (Sondra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa & Rudy) (Geoffrey played Sondra's husband, Elvin and Raven Symone played Denise' step-daughter.)
I know that but he wasn't originally announced to be there. I don't know if he replaced her or was a last minute addition. I agree that he should have been there though.

The cast of The Cosby Show has been reunited atleast 4 times, since its finale, with all the kids (including Raven Symone) present, but never Lisa Bonet. And yet there was some sort of reunion for A Different World in 2006, that she actually WAS there. Kinda strange.

I wasn't the least bit surprised at Lisa's no-show.

Cosby himself in an interview said that of all the kids he worked with on the show, Bonet was the most difficult to work with.

Also, Joseph C Phillips and Erika Alexander weren't there either.

Also, Joseph C Phillips and Erika Alexander weren't there either.
Will to be fair they were more recurring guest stars even so they were added to the Cast. And they weren't in that many episodes/

Cosby should have let the cast members actually speak at the awards show.

Cosby should have let the cast members actually speak at the awards show.

Dag! I'm disappointed! Denise was my favorite Huxtable. I'm also disappointed that I could not attend and it was here in NYC! I was even willing to be a production assistant. I wanted to attend this event!!! :mad: