Editing Coming to America (section)

===Television pilot===
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A [[television pilot]] of a weekly [[sitcom]] version of the film was produced for [[CBS]], following the film's success, starring [[Tommy Davidson]] as Prince Tariq, and Paul Bates reprising his role as Oha. The pilot went unsold, but was televised on July 4, 1989, as part of the ''[[CBS Summer Playhouse]]'' pilot anthology series.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.deseret.com/1988/12/8/18787084/outtakes-coming-to-america-the-tv-series|title='Outtakes' - 'Coming To America' The TV Series|date=December 8, 1988|work=[[Deseret News]]|access-date=February 22, 2022}}</ref><ref name='splinter_spinoff' /><ref>{{cite news |last=Thompson|first=Bonsu|date=August 20, 2020|title=An Oral History of the 'Coming to America' TV Show You Never Knew About|url=https://level.medium.com/an-oral-history-of-the-coming-to-america-tv-show-you-never-knew-about-3df24504d651|work=Medium}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0911189/reference|title="CBS Summer Playhouse" Coming to America (TV Episode 1989)|date=July 4, 1989|website=IMDb}}</ref>