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Once Fishburne and Anderson joined the cast, “I felt like it was on rails,” the EP says. But in doing that, what do you lose?” But rather than going broad, as TV comedies are apt to do, and centering on a family that just happened to be Black, black-ish was the story of a family that was, as Barris says, “ absolutely Black.” In the specificity of the Johnson family’s experience, hopefully, viewers of all colors would be able to recognize universal truths. The concept was simple: “You’re taught to give your kids more than you have. The process of writing and selling the show felt different from what came before “at every point,” Barris says. It followed ad man Andre “Dre” Johnson (played by Anthony Anderson) his anesthesiologist wife Rainbow, aka Bow (Tracee Ellis Ross) their four children Junior, Zoey, Diane and Jack (Marcus Scribner, Yara Shahidi, Marsai Martin and Miles Brown, respectively) and Dre’s father, Pops (Laurence Fishburne). ‘ABSOLUTELY BLACK’ | Barris had written 18 pilots before black-ish, a loosely autobiographical story about a family that looked a lot like Barris’ at the time.

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As black-ish gears up for its series finale later this year, TVLine spoke with Barris, as well as current showrunner Courtney Lilly, about the legacy they hope the show will sustain long after the final credits roll.

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It has been a launchpad for Barris, its creator, who has evolved into a real Hollywood player, someone who commands both professional respect and nine-figure deals.Ī Million Little Things Recap: Could This Be the Start of Gary/Maggie 2.0? It has made headlines and kept an awards-challenged ABC in the Emmy game. It has grabbed and held an audience that tunes in every week to watch the Johnsons navigate life as an upper middle-class Black family in the United States. The ABC series’ inclusion in the exhibit was both touching and well-deserved: In its eight seasons, black-ish has carved a niche as primetime’s most consistent place for pointed, meaningful and yes, funny conversations about race.

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