KENYA BARRIS ANNOUNCED FINAL SEASON OF COMEDY SHOW BLACK-ISH
Kenya Barris announced the eighth and final season of award-winning comedy Black-ish starring Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson. The show broke into a new era of comedy that sparked conversations about diversity and touch on timely subjects such as the pandemic, votive, and systematic racism.
Barris took to his Instagram and wrote, “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!” Barris continued, “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 and especially on a network television comedy.”
Kenya Barris has been one of the dominant black creators on television for the past few years, thanks to a collection of popular shows “Black-ish,” “Growth,” “Mixed,” and “Black.” was. AF. ‘ The show was such a hit franchise for Disney that a third possible spinoff, Old-ish, is supposedly in development and written by Barris.
There are also rumors floating around that Barris wants to further develop his branded entertainment alongside Eva Longoria. The two are reportedly developing a “Brown-ish” series, which is described as a new perspective on Latin families. ‘Brownish ” Is still a concept that still has a lot of missing pieces to it. “When we talk about the world ‘dark,’ There are so many different iterations, and we accept it. It’s really up to Kenya to be the franchise master and captain,“ an executive at ABC stated.
