The pilot for the sequel series to A Different World has cast six leads for its cast. The series has cast One Of Us Is Lying alum Chibuikem Uche as Kojo and Broadway’s Hell’s Kitchen star Maleah Joi Moon as Deborah, alongside Cornell Young as Shaquille, Jordan Aaron Hall as Amir, Alijah Kai (daughter of Tichina Arnold) as Rashida, and Kennedi McClure as Hazel. Deadline broke the news of the castings, and Netflix declined to comment. The project has a super rare pilot order at Netflix, as the streamer doesn’t usually order pilots. As we previously reported, since it started creating its own series, Netflix has notably only made straight-to-series orders and typically forgone the pilot process. This pilot is apparently just a one-off and not a strategy shift toward Netflix producing more pilots. Details of the ‘A Different World’ sequel series pilot Of the pilot, Variety previously reported, “The plan is [to] shoot the pilot at the beginning of the summer to get a better sense of the...