Several months ago, we told you that ABC green lit a brand new comedy pilot for the network that was to star Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross and be produced by Lawrence Fishburne, with the hope that the network would pick up the show. The new show, titled Black-ish, was setting up for the fall.
Well, now it seems that the show was finally green-lit for a series for the network!
The new series is written by Kenya Barris (of BET’s The Game fame) and is ‘loosely based on his personal experiences, as Black-ish centers on an upper-middle-class black man (Anderson) who struggles to raise his children with some sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old-school father, and his own assimilated, color-blind kids.’
Fishburne’s Cinema Gypsy and Principato Young along with ABC Studios are producing. So far, no word yet if Fishburne will appear in the series, but the word is that he may, and he will play Anderson’s father. Ellis-Ross is set to play his wife.
More details to follow soon!
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