Grown-ish will have quite the star-studded final season.
Grown-ish will have quite the star-studded final season.
EXCLUSIVE: David E. Tabert has sold single-camera comedy Overtime, about a retired NBA player, to ABC, with Warren Littlefield (The Handmaid’s Tale, Fargo) executive producing and Courtney Lilly (black-ish, grown-ish) in negotiations to also executive produce. Additionally, the filmmaker behind Netflix’s first musical, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, is staying in the holiday musical lane with Twas’ The Night, a musical anthology series in the works at Disney+ with Becky Hartman Edwards (Firefly Lane) executive producing. Talbert is writing both projects, which he is executive producing with his wife and producing partner Lyn Sisson-Talbert through their Golden Alchemy Entertainment as well as the company’s Jim Miller.
Grown-ish will be returning for Season 6 at Freeform.
SPOILER ALERT: Reading further will reveal key plot points from the series finale of “Black-ish”.
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of Tuesday’s series finale of Black-ish on ABC.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThere’s a bit of serendipity that some of ABC’s “Black-ish” takes place at an advertising agency, where Andre Johnson (played by Anthony Anderson) works. Throughout eight seasons of “Black-ish,” viewers have seen Dre dream up with ways to capitalize and promote various brands, both fictional (“Boxable”) and not (Starbucks).As Dre was helping brands expand their footprint, so too was “Black-ish” turning into a lucrative and far-reaching franchise itself for Disney, ABC and creator Kenya Barris. The comedy concludes its eight-season run on April 19, but that doesn’t mean the end of the “-ish” universe.
“Grown-ish” is going through some major changes.
Graduation means it’s time to move on. For six members of the cast at grown-ish, the season finale means just that.
, and Freeform has officially renewed the Emmy-nominated series for a fifth season! Along with the renewal news, the network announced that star Marcus Scribner will join his TV sister, Yara Shahidi, on the spinoff, reprising his role as Andre Johnson Jr. as he embarks on his own journey to being «grown.»Scribner has portrayed the eldest Johnson son throughout the show's seven-season run, which will wrap with the currently airing final season.
Yara Shahidi will be back as Zoey Johnson for another season of Grown-ish – and her on-screen brother is joining her!
Grown-ish will return to Freeform for Season 5 with a familiar face and two new showrunners at the helm.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large“Black-ish” may be ending, but the series’ creative universe continues: Freeform has ordered a fifth season of spinoff “Grown-ish.” And as “Black-ish” concludes, another one of that long-running series’ cast members is now set to segue over to “Grown-ish”: Marcrus Scribner has officially been added to the show’s cast.Scribner will reprise his role as Andre Johnson Jr., and as the network explains, “he embarks on his own journey to being ‘grown.'” In moving to “Grown-ish,” Scribner joins his TV sister, Yara Shahidi (who plays Zoey), on the show.Also, as part of the Season 5 pickup, playwright/producer Zakiyyah Alexander (“Russian Doll,” “La Brea”) and “Black-ish” executive producer/showrunner Courtney Lilly will take over as co-showrunners. Season 4 showrunner Julie Bean and executive producer Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry are departing the show.
This Is Us,Superman & Lois,black-ish,Ghosts,The Neighborhood,Hacks,Cobra Kai,Riverdale,Better Call Saul,A Salute to the NCIS Universe celebrating NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, and NCIS:Hawai'i, and Emily in Paris.Both and are celebrating their final seasons this year. Their panels will feature special preview screenings of upcoming episodes followed by a conversation and Q&A with the casts.
This Is Us,Superman & Lois,black-ish,Ghosts,The Neighborhood,Hacks,Cobra Kai,Riverdale,Better Call Saul,A Salute to the NCIS Universe celebrating NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, and NCIS:Hawai'i, and Emily in Paris.Both and are celebrating their final seasons this year. Their panels will feature special preview screenings of upcoming episodes followed by a conversation and Q&A with the casts.
Mónica Marie Zorrilla Baratunde Thurston’s animated project “How to Be Black” has been put into development at ABC, hailing from 20th Television Animation and ABC Signature. Thurston, author of the memoir of the same name and podcast host of “How to Citizen with Baratunde,” will write and executive produce alongside Courtney Lilly, producer and writer known for “Arrested Development” and “The Cleveland Show,” who recently renewed his overall deal with ABC Signature.
Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TV“Black-ish” showunner Courtney Lilly looks back on the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic of being stuck inside as being like “Groundhog Day.” Having just moved into a new house in February 2020, he set up an office in the guest house, which is a converted garage, so he and his partner, who is a professor, could have their own designated space.
Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Courtney Lilly, executive producer/showrunner of ABC’s comedy series black-ish, is pulling double duty as EP/showrunner of both black-ish, now in its seventh season, and spinoff mixed-ish, headed to its second season.
Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineOn Day 1 of ABC’s Virtu-Fall Presentations, Black-ish stars Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross and Laurence Fishburne joined creator Kenya Barris and showrunner Courtney Lilly to tease an upcoming, hour-long special, which will air ahead of the show’s Season 7 premiere.At the beginning of the panel, the cast and EPs addressed the fact that Black-ish Season 7 was initially scheduled to air mid-season, before being bumped up to Wednesday, October
Will Thorne Staff WriterSo much of creating a comedy series happens in the writers’ room, where jokes fly back and forth and writers riff off one another.With the coronavirus pandemic putting a pause to in-person rooms, a group of comedy showrunners shared their experiences running virtual rooms, among other topics, at Variety‘s virtual “A Night in the Writers’ Room” event.“Black-ish” showrunner Courtney Lilly and his room are currently prepping for the ABC show’s seventh season, but he said it
Courtney Lilly, the showrunner and an executive producer of black-ish, wrote this guest column about the Season 6 episode of the sitcom, "Hair Day," which aired Tuesday, Jan. 7 on ABC.
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