The Big House is a short-lived
prime time television
sitcom starring actor/comedian
Kevin Hart. It ran on the
ABC television network in April 2004, lasting for only six episodes.
The series represents a mirror-opposite of the
NBC sitcom
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Kevin Hart is a wealthy, pampered student from
Malibu. After his father is arrested and imprisoned for embezzlement, Kevin moves to
Philadelphia to live with his working-class aunt, uncle and cousins (the Cleveland family), and enrolls in
Drexel University.