Kenya Barris
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Posted Wednesday 2/24/21 at 6:11PM EST
Kenya Barris will focus on contemporary relationships for his first Paramount+ series
“The first series I will be involved with, we are taking an intimate look at contemporary relationships,” said the Black-ish...
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Posted Friday 10/30/20 at 9:18PM EDT
Kenya Barris may exit his Netflix megadeal to become a co-owner in a studio with ViacomCBS
The Black-ish creator is "making the leap from content creation to content ownership," reports Deadline's Nellie Andreeva, adding that Barris...
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Posted Tuesday 9/29/20 at 3:22PM EDT
How Black-ish ended up back on ABC's fall schedule: Anthony Anderson said it would be "problematic" if the show was held for midseason
"I thought it would be doing a disservice to our audience and to our show to have our voices muted...
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Posted Friday 9/25/20 at 1:27PM EDT
Mixed-ish creators sued for allegedly stealing the ABC comedy's concept
The Black-ish spinoff creators Kenya Barris, Peter Saji and Tracee Ellis Ross are being sued, along with ABC, over Mixed-ish.
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Posted Tuesday 9/08/20 at 6:10PM EDT
ABC developing Old-ish, a spinoff of Black-ish starring Laurence Fishburne and Jenifer Lewis
Black-ish creator Kenya Barris will write Old-ish, the third spinoff of Black-ish after Grown-ish and Mixed-ish.
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Posted Friday 8/14/20 at 4:10AM EDT
Kenya Barris recalls having a "real honest conversation" with Disney's Bob Iger over shelved Black-ish episode
On Thursday's Daily Show, Barris discussed his February 2018 shelved "Please, Baby, Please" Black-ish episode that was released this week...
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Black-ish's lost 2018 episode feels even more powerful in 2020
"It's easy to wonder which moment ABC found so objectionable about the episode that it was unceremoniously yanked from the...
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Posted Tuesday 8/11/20 at 3:50AM EDT
Hulu's release of Black-ish's "Please, Baby, Please" episode not only validates Kenya Barris, but also ABC
"Given the nebulous nature of the whispering about 'Please, Baby, Please,' it probably isn't surprising that the actual episode is...
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Black-ish's 2018 shelved political episode is now available on Hulu
The “Please, Baby, Please” episode that was originally scheduled to air in February 2018, but was reportedly scrapped over its...
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How Netflix became a leader in Black content as the rest of Hollywood scrambles to catch up
Amid the George Floyd protests on June 10, Netflix released a "Black Lives Matter" collection of 56 shows, films and...
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Posted Wednesday 6/24/20 at 2:35PM EDT
Kenya Barris reveals his 21-year-old daughter tested positive for coronavirus
The Black-ish creator wanted to make it clear while talking to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show that young people...
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Posted Tuesday 6/23/20 at 10:37AM EDT
Netflix renews #blackAF for Season 2
Kenya Barris' comedy starring him and Rashida Jones as a fictionalized version of his family has been picked up for...
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Black TV creators helped make Juneteenth famous
This week, President Trump boasted to The Wall Street Journal that he was responsible for making Juneteenth famous.
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Kenya Barris: Black-ish's "Juneteenth" is "one of the most important things" I've ever been apart of
Barris is reflecting on Black-ish's October 2017 "Juneteenth" musical episode in the wake of Juneteenth being celebrated as a major...
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Posted Thursday 6/18/20 at 1:31PM EDT
Black-ish will return this fall instead of midseason because of its relevance to "this moment in time”
When ABC announced its "fall" schedule on Wednesday, Black-ish was missing, with plans for it to return at midseason.
