Black-ish to end with Season 8

TVLine

Kenya Barris announced this morning that ABC has renewed his acclaimed comedy for an eighth and final season. Black-ish is down 8% this season, its seventh, with an average of 2.4 million viewers. It is ABC's No. 4 comedy in the demo, behind The Goldbergs, The Conners and American Housewife. "To ALL the people in the world I love, honor, respect and care for it is both exciting and bittersweet to share that black-ish has been RENEWED by ABC for it’s EIGHTH... and FINAL SEASON," Barris wrote on Instagram. "In this day and age it is rare to get to decide when your show should come to an end, and we are grateful along with ABC to be able to make this final season exactly what we’d hoped for – and to do it with the entire and AMAZINGLY STELLAR cast coming back to close this chapter out with us the right way! This show has changed my life in so many ways and I am so proud of the conversations we’ve started along the way. None of this would have been possible without our audience and supporters, who have championed the show every step of the journey; allowing us to change not just the narrative of Black Families, but of Family, Culture, and the World in general. All the while allowing us to talk about things that people were not supposed to talk about period... especially on a network television comedy."