Bill Cosby is set to return to NBC with another hit sitcom-in-the-making, confirmed a network spokesperson Wednesday.

76-year-old Bill Cosby will be taking on the role as the patriarch of a multigenerational family for the new NBC sitcom.

The show brings Cosby back to the same network where "The Cosby Show," his legendary 1980s sitcom, had a fruitful, eight-year run.

In "The Cosby Show," the 76-year-old comedian played the role of a member of an upper-midde-class African-American family. The famous series was said to have been the turning of NBC fame and paved the way for other African-American shows.

Bill Cosby was the perfect Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable, the patriarch of the famous TV famiy. He starred alongside Phylicia Rashad, who played his wife Clair. The actress would also take on the role of his wife for a second time in the 1990s CBS sitcom, "Cosby."

Bill Cosby has one of the longest, most prolific careers among living actors today. Aside from The Cosby Show, he also starred in "The Cosby Mysteries" and hosted "Kids Say the Darnedest Things." On top of that, he went on to star in several movies and is now returning to his home network for a new sitcom.

Cosby has an Emmy Award for best actor in his resume for the role of CIA Agent Alexander Scott in the 1960s television series, "I Spy." The hit TV show also marked the first for a African-American to get a lead role in a weekly dramatic series.

Bill Cosby was awarded Kennedy Center Honors in 1998 and also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002. The actor's most recent award was the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which is given to performers who use humor and comedy as a means to influence the American society.