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A musical adaptation of Mel Brooks' movie is set for fall, while the comedy will go live the night of the New Hampshire primary.

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00:00ABC is expanding its commitment to live programming with two events already slated

00:05for 2020, The Conners and Young Frankenstein.

00:09For The Conners, the network announced that a live episode will be taped on

00:12February 11th, the night of the New Hampshire primary, and will feature a

00:16storyline centered on the election results. In addition, actual ABC News coverage

00:20will be incorporated into the broadcast. The episode is set to center around

00:24Mark watching primary results for a school project with Harris. The cast will

00:28perform live for East Coast and West Coast viewers, with election results

00:31incorporated into the story in real time. In addition to The Conners, ABC also

00:36announced a presentation of Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein musical in the fall.

00:40The push for the network's latest live musical event follows the successful airing

00:44of The Little Mermaid Live, which aired back in November. That hybrid presentation

00:48of live performances mixed in with the showing of the 1989 animated movie drew

00:53nine million viewers for its initial airing. The musical is based on the Broadway

00:57version of Young Frankenstein, which in turn was based on Brooks' 1974 film

01:01starring Gene Wilder. ABC also aired its most recent live-in-front-of-a-studio

01:05audience comedy special in December. The restaging of episodes of Norman Lear's

01:09All in the Family and Good Times drew 6.68 million viewers with a week of delayed

01:14viewing. A third special is set for the spring. For more on this story, head to THR.com.

01:19For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Neha Joy.