ABC developing animated comedy How to Be Black from Black-ish producers
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Baratunde Thurston’s bestselling comedic memoir How to Be Black chronicles his coming-of-blackness and offers practical advice on everything from “How to Be the Black Friend” to “How to Be the (Next) Black President." With Black-ish in its final season, showrunner Courtney Lilly and executive producers Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland are developing How to be Black as animated series with Thurston co-writing the pilot with Lilly. How to Be Black "focuses on the community and family that raised a young Baratunde in the Washington, D.C., of the 1980s. Should the show make it to series, it would be ABC’s first primetime animated comedy since the short-lived The Goode Family in 2009," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Lilly is a veteran of several animated shows, including The Cleveland Show.
TOPICS: Courtney Lilly, ABC, How to Be Black, Baratunde Thurston, In Development
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