Kenya Barris
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Posted Wednesday 4/20/22 at 1:31PM EDT
Black-ish helped rewrite how TV comedies talked about race, culture and families of color
The ABC comedy was "daring to walk that tightrope just as some television networks were trying to get serious about...
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Posted Thursday 7/22/21 at 2:04PM EDT
Netflix orders Kenya Barris' documentary on Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali's relationship
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali, Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith’s book Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad...
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Kenya Barris plans to turn #blackAF into a movie franchise, says "Netflix became CBS"
Netflix renewed #blackAF for Season 2 a year ago today, but the show appears to be canceled as a TV series.
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Posted Wednesday 6/02/21 at 1:31PM EDT
Barack and Michelle Obama team with Kenya Barris and Chris Nee for We the People Netflix animated musical U.S. civics lessons
Titled We the People and premiering on Netflix on the Fourth of July, the 10-episode series of three-minute musical shorts...
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Posted Tuesday 5/18/21 at 9:17PM EDT
A Brown-ish Latinx-themed comedy from Black-ish creator Kenya Barris and Eva Longoria is in the works at ABC, but Old-ish appears to be dead
While Black-ish is headed into its final season and Mixed-ish has been canceled, Barris has been working on making more "ish"...
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Black-ish to end with Season 8
Kenya Barris announced this morning that ABC has renewed his acclaimed comedy for an eighth and final season.
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Lilly Singh's A Little Late to end -- she's set to star in a Kenya Barris Netflix comedy
With A Little Late With Lilly Singh coming to an end after two seasons after premiering in September 2019, NBC...
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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...