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The Writers Guild of America West has unveiled the 18 candidates running for seats on the guild’s board of directors.

The election will be held next month during a voting period that runs Sept. 5-24. Voting materials will be distributed to guild members on Aug. 30.

The candidates are 13 new contenders and five incumbent members seeking two-year terms. As per WGA West’s rules, the listing of the candidates is presented in an order determined by lot.

Courtney Lilly Deric A. Hughes (incumbent) Chris Hazzard Maggie Levin Justin Halpern (incumbent) Ron Rappaport Deborah Pratt Danny Tolli Stefanie Leder Joelle Garfinkel Melinda Hsu Jeffrey Thompson Rich Talarico Raphael Bob-Waksberg (incumbent) Thomas Mignone Travis Donnelly (incumbent) John Rogers (incumbent) Jackie Penn

The guild’s board election will be closely watched for signs of next-generation leaders emerging at the union, which went on strike for 148 days last year. Last year, veteran showrunner Meredith Stiehm...

The Writers Guild of America West unveiled the finalists for its 2024 Board of Directors election on Tuesday.

There are 18 candidates running to fill eight open seats are: Courtney Lilly, Deric A. Hughes (inc.), Chris Hazzard, Maggie Levin, Justin Halpern (inc.), Ron Rappaport, Deborah Pratt, Danny Tolli, Stefanie Leder, Joelle Garfinkel, Melinda Hsu, Jeffrey Thompson, Rich Talarico, Raphael Bob-Waksberg (inc.), Thomas Mignone, Travis Donnelly (inc.), John Rogers (inc.), Jackie Penn.

Only one candidate selected by the Wgaw Nominating Committee did not make it to the final round.

Wgaw members should receive voting materials on August 30, with the voting period from September 5 through September 24 at 12:00 p.m. Pt.

In addition to the candidates selected by the Guild’s Nominating Committee, eligible members may also be nominated by petition. Members seeking nomination for the Board of Directors must obtain 15 member signatures in support of their petitions. The deadline for submitting signed petitions...

The Writers Guild of America West Nominating Committee revealed the candidates for its 2024 board of directors on Friday.

The 19 members vying for eight open seats are: Courtney Lilly, Deric A. Hughes (inc.), Chris Hazzard, Maggie Levin, Justin Halpern (inc.), Ron Rappaport, Deborah Pratt, Danny Tolli, Stefanie Leder, Joelle Garfinkel, Melinda Hsu, Jeffrey Thompson, Juan Carlos Fernandez, Rich Talarico, Raphael Bob-Waksberg (inc.), Thomas Mignone, Travis Donnelly (inc.), John Rogers (inc.), Jackie Penn.

Voting will go through September 24 at 12 p.m. Pt, and members should expect to receive voting materials and information about candidates on August 30.

In addition to the candidates selected by the Guild’s Nominating Committee, eligible members may also be nominated by petition. Members seeking nomination for the Board of Directors must obtain 15 member signatures in support of their petitions. The deadline for submitting signed petitions to the Wgaw is July 23 at 12 p.m. Pt.

Grown-ish will have quite the star-studded final season.

Kelly Rowland, Omarion, Latto and Nle Choppa have been added to an already impressive list of guest stars for Season 6, Freeform announced at Atx Festival on Saturday.

They join previously announced guest stars Lil Yachty, Anderson .Paak and The Free Nationals.

Rowland will play Edie, a tenured professor who serves as the head of the psychology department at Cal U. Latto will play Sloane, a wine rep who counts Doug as a client.

Omarion and Nle Choppa will play themselves.

In addition to the guest star announcement, Freeform also released a first look at the first half of Season 6, which will premiere on June 28. The 30-second clip gives a glimpse at each of the guest stars. You can watch the promo below.

Grown-ish, which is a spinoff of ABC’s Black-ish, premiered in 2018. It originally followed Yara Shahidi‘s character Zoey as...

Grown-ish is coming to an end at Freeform. The series upcoming sixth season will be its last.

Season 6 will air in two parts, with the first half premiering this summer. Season 6B will air in 2024.

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The series plans to welcome some big guest stars for the final season, including Lil Yachty, Anderson .Paak and The Free Nationals. During Season 6, Grown-ish will also hit its 100th episodes.

Freeform recently underwent a regime change, as Tara Duncan relinquished her duties to focus on Onyx Collective, and Simran Sethi took charge of the youth-skewing cable network in addition to her ABC duties. However, Deadline hears that the...

Exclusive: David E. Tabert has sold the single-camera comedy Overtime, about a retired NBA player, to ABC, with Warren Littlefield executive producing and Courtney Lilly in negotiations to also executive produce. Additionally, the filmmaker behind Netflix’s first musical Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey is staying in the holiday musical lane with Twas’ the Night, a musical anthology series in the works at Disney+ with Becky Hartman Edwards (Firefly Lane) executive producing. Talbert is writing both projects, which he is executive producing with his wife and producing partner Lyn Sisson-Talbert through their Golden Alchemy Entertainment.

In Overtime, a celebrated NBA star retires and returns home to play positions he’s managed to avoid throughout his 12-year career: father, husband, neighbor, friend. He’s been pampered his entire adult life, and followed the perfect game plan to great success. Now, away from the spotlight and left to his own devices,...

Andre Johnson Jr. is extending his stay at Cal U with a sixth-season renewal of Freeform’s grown-ish, TVLine has learned.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Freeform has also released a trailer for the second half of grown-ish‘s fifth season, premiering Wednesday, Jan. 18 (10:30/9:30c).

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So, what’s on tap for 5B? According to the trailer, Junior is (Marcus Scribner) facing everything from money problems to...

“Grown-ish” has been renewed for Season 6 at Freeform. In addition, Variety has learned exclusively that Craig Doyle will take over as showrunner on the new season.

Doyle steps in as showrunner on the “Black-ish” spinoff for the team of Zakiyyah Alexander and Courtney Lilly, who became the co-showrunners on the series going into its fifth and current season. Doyle has been with the show since it began, first as a co-executive producer before being elevated to executive producer in Season 2. His other credits include “Black-ish,” “The Great Indoors,” “Undateable,” and “Family Tools.” He is repped by CAA, Lit Entertainment Group, and Yorn Levine Barnes.

“Grown-ish” returns for the second half of its fifth season on Jan. 18 at 10:30 p.m. Et/Pt and will stream the next day on Hulu. Originally focused on Yara Shahidi’s character Zoey Johnson, fellow “Black-ish” alum Marcus Scribner joined the show in Season 5, reprising...

Grown-ish will be returning for Season 6 at Freeform.

The series is currently in its fifth season, with the midseason premiere set for January 18. Season 5 saw Marcus Scribner take up the mantle from Yara Shahidi as her character Zoey’s younger brother Junior, who started his first year at Cal U.

On the heels of her graduation, Junior has been attempting to transition out from under her shadow and make his own mark on the campus.

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Freeform also released a trailer for Season 5B on Wednesday. Though he thinks he’s got it all together, the trailer indicates that Junior encounters...

The -ish universe continues to roll on at Freeform.

The Disney-owned cable channel has renewed Grown-ish for a sixth season. The pickup comes a week ahead of the comedy’s Jan. 18 return to the schedule with the second half of season five.

During Freeform’s time at the Television Critics Association winter press tour Wednesday, the network also announced premiere dates for season five of Good Trouble (March 16) and season two of Single Drunk Female (April 12), as well as a summer return for Cruel Summer. Freeform has also added an unscripted dating series, Love Trip: Paris, to its lineup; it will debut on Valentine’s Day.

Grown-ish, a spinoff of ABC’s Black-ish that follows the two oldest kids in the Johnson family, Zoey (Yara Shahidi) and Andre Jr. (Marcus Scribner), is Freeform’s longest-running current original series. With the season six renewal, it will approach or cross the 100-episode...

Freeform has an exciting new thriller on tap for early 2023.

The young-skewing cabler revealed The Watchful Eye will launch  Monday, Jan. 30, with a double episode premiere at 9 p.m. before moving to its regular 10 p.m. timeslot.

The series follows Elena Santos, played by Mariel Molino, a young woman with a complicated past, maneuvering her way into working as a live-in nanny for an affluent family in Manhattan.

She quickly learns that everyone in the mysterious building has deadly secrets and ulterior motives.

What they don't know, however, is that Elena has some shocking secrets of her own.

The series comes from Ryan Seacrest Productions and stars Molino, Warren Christie, Amy Acker, Jon Ecker, Aliyah Royale, Lex Lumpkin, Henry Joseph Samiri and Kelly Bishop.

It is created by Julie Durk (Grace and Frankie), who also serves as consultant.

Emily Fox (Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist) is showrunner and executive producer. Ryan Seacrest,...

"Grown-ish" is finally returning for its fifth season on July 20, but this installment will look different in more ways than one. For starters, six original cast members who were part of Zoey's (Yara Shahidi) core group of Cal U buddies are bidding goodbye to the popular show. Season five of the Freeform coming-of-age comedy will follow a brand-new batch of freshmen. While we'll be reuniting with some "Grown-ish" favorites as season regulars - like Zoey, Trevor Jackson's Aaron, and Diggy Simmons's Doug (plus "Black-ish" star Marcus Scribner as Zoey's little brother Junior) - season four officially marks the end of an epic era for most of the original "Grown-ish" cast.

Showrunners Zakiyyah Alexander and Courtney Lilly shared with TVLine in March 2022 that while these beloved departing characters might not be the focus moving forward, there's always a possibility they might come back in future episodes. "Francia, Emily, Chlöe,...

Exclusive: We’ll be seeing more of Kiela in the upcoming fifth season of Freeform’s Grown-ish. Daniella Perkins, who recurred as the character in Season 4, has been promoted to series regular for the upcoming fifth season. Additionally, Matthew Sato (Doogie Kamealoha M.D.), Tara Raani, Justine Skye (Already Gone), Amelie Zilber, Ceyair Wright (Space Jam: A New Legacy) and Slick Woods have joined the cast in recurring roles in the series starring Yara Shahidi.

Perkins’ Kiela, a sophomore, is Luca’s little sister but she’s trying to forge her own path at Cal U.

Perkins appeared in 10 episodes last season.

In Grown-ish Season 5, on the heels of big sister Zoey’s (Shahidi). graduation, Andre Johnson Jr. (Marcus Scribner), Aka Junior, enrolls at Cal U and embarks on his own journey to being “grown.

Raani plays Zaara, a first-generation Muslim-American. She is a sophomore, type A overachiever with a lot of swagger.

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The following scene, during the penultimate episode of the ABC family comedy Black-ish, originated last season, when recurring star Laurence Fishburne pitched an idea. “He was like, ‘Hey man, I want to do an episode about why it’s so hard for Black men of certain generations to say they love each other,’ ” recalls showrunner Courtney Lilly. The episode sees three of the Johnson men — Anthony Anderson’s Dre, Marcus Scribner’s Junior and Fishburne’s Pops — on a camping trip, where simmering feelings boil to the surface, forcing them to have a real heart-to-heart about their emotions.

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Lilly says this moment sees both Anthony Anderson’s Dre and Marcus Scribner’s Junior in “a vulnerable spot”: Junior is going through a breakup, while Dre is experiencing “career ennui” — which was the perfect impetus to explore an idea that Fishburne had pitched in season seven.

Black Reel Awards annually recognize the excellence of African Americans, as well as the cinematic achievements of the African diaspora, in the global film and television industry. This year there are a lot of nominees and a few new categories.

The comedy series Atlanta edges out all the competition with 11 nominations. Quinta Brunson and Abbott Elementary come in second with nine.

Walter Moseley garners four nominations for writing two episodes of the Apple TV+ series The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray and FX’s Snowfall. Donald Glover snags four nominations, for acting and writing one episode each and directing two episodes of the front-running Atlanta.

HBO (and HBO Max) dominates the competition this year by receiving a whopping 42 nominations. More than double the next nearest competitor, ABC with nineteen nominations. Netflix comes in third with 18 nominations. A grand total of seventeen different networks receive nominations this year, up four from last year.

“What always impresses me and what is something I’m trying to learn for season two is bringing other people in and championing them and overseeing it in that way,” says “We Are Lady Parts” creator-writer-director Nida Manzoor about her experience as a showrunner on the Peacock comedy and how she hopes to build on it. We talked with Manzoor as well as Courtney Lilly (“Black-ish”), Rob Siegel (“Pam and Tommy”) and Nikki Toscano (“The Offer”) for our “Meet the Experts” TV showrunners panel. Watch the group roundtable discussion above. Click on each person’s name above to watch an individual chat.

Showrunning is often seen as a largely creative role — the auteur of the production to whom the artistic voice of the show is attributed, like “30 Rock’s” Tina Fey, “Breaking Bad’s” Vince Gilligan or “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel‘s” Amy Sherman-Palladino, to name a few. But...

“Mostly what people watch the show for is to enjoy the time with that family, and we’d done 150-something episodes by that point, maybe a little more,” says “Black-ish” showrunner Courtney Lilly about the eighth and final season of the ABC comedy series, which concluded this spring. “We just wanted to give them 13 more half-hours where they could have fun, celebrate the joy that hopefully the show brought.” We talked to Lilly as part of our “Meet the Experts” TV showrunners panel. Watch our exclusive video interview above.

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“Black-ish” explored the lives of the Johnson family, who enjoy lives of affluence (father Dre is an ad executive; mother Rainbow is a doctor) but still face conflict as one of the few Black families in a predominantly white neighborhood — and for Dre, a largely white workplace. But while the series has confronted issues that have...

Four top TV showrunners will reveal secrets behind their projects when they join Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022 Emmy Awards contenders. They will participate in two video discussions to premiere on Thursday, May 19, at 4:00 p.m. Pt; 7:00 p.m. Et. We’ll have a one-on-one with our senior editor Daniel Montgomery and a roundtable chat with all of the group together.

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Synopsis: A couple struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.

Bio: Courtney Lilly was a four-time Emmy nominee for “Black-ish.” He has also been nominated at the...

Is the Johnson family heading to the big screen?  The creators aren't opposed, but we'll have to wait a bit to find out. The Black-ish series finale aired April 19, and creator Kenya Barris and showrunner Courtney Lilly have revealed that they'd be open to a movie in 10 years, to show where the family ended up.  "If Hollywood hasn't kicked me out for being too old in 10 years," Lilly said in an interview with Deadline, "I'd certainly be open to that kind of conversation." Barris added that while "every book comes to an end...there are so many stories that can be told with this family, which makes me want to keep...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains details of Tuesday’s series finale of Black-ish on ABC.

After eight seasons, Kenya Barris’ ABC comedy Black-ish came to a bittersweet end with the series-finale episode “Homegoing,” with the Johnson family selling their place so they could return to living in a Black neighborhood. It also turned into an opportunity for the cast and crew to, quite literally, dance in the street for a job well done. Here, Barris and showrunner Courtney Lilly discuss the comedy’s finale, what they hoped to accomplish, and what’s next for the franchise.

Deadline: The episode ends with a New Orleans jazz funeral to celebrate the end of their life, so to speak, in that mostly white neighborhood. And it was followed with dancing in the streets! Too bad the dancing didn’t go on for longer. It was great to watch.

Courtney Lilly: I know!

The series finale of “Black-ish” will air Tuesday, April 19 on ABC. After eight seasons and 175 episodes, the Johnson family will say farewell in the last installment titled “Homegoing.”

For at least one star of the series, the ending came too soon. “I want to go on,” said Anthony Anderson at the “Black-ish” panel discussion during PaleyFest earlier this month. “I think we have more stories to tell. I think the audience wants to see more, but all good things must come to an end.”

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Anderson’s onscreen wife, Tracee Ellis Ross, felt more closure. “I feel like we end on such a high and with such joy and pride,” she said. “I feel so amazed at what we were able to accomplish and how much fun we had while doing it. It was a lot of work,...

There’s a bit of serendipity that some of ABC’s “Black-ish” takes place at an advertising agency, where Andre Johnson (played by Anthony Anderson) works. Throughout eight seasons of “Black-ish,” viewers have seen Dre dream up with ways to capitalize and promote various brands, both fictional (“Boxable”) and not (Starbucks).

As Dre was helping brands expand their footprint, so too was “Black-ish” turning into a lucrative and far-reaching franchise itself for Disney, ABC and creator Kenya Barris. The comedy concludes its eight-season run on April 19, but that doesn’t mean the end of the “-ish” universe. The show has already spawned multiple spin-offs, including “Mixed-ish” (which ran from 2019 to 2022) and Freeform’s “Grown-ish” — which will now continue with a new focus, as Junior (Marcus Scribner) enters college just as Zoey (Yara Shahidi) graduates.

Barris continues as an executive producer of the universe, but he exited the day-to-day oversight of “Black-ish” several years ago.

The end is near for the long-running ABC sitcom black-ish (which finales on April 19) and for TV Guide Magazine‘s recent cover story this reporter had the honor of talking to creator Kenya Barris, showrunner Courtney Lilly and most of the cast. And it seemed like a good time to also get stars Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross together to talk about playing married couple Dre and Rainbow Johnson. When asked if the pair, who wrapped shooting the series last November, ever get a chance to go back and watch earlier episodes, Anderson says that he’ll sometimes catch an episode on an airplane. One thing definitely stands out to him, though. “I’m just amazed at the growth of everyone, myself in particular, the girth, that I’ve grown since season one,” he says, getting a laugh from Ross. “But I looked at how small these children [costars Yara Shahidi, Marcus Scribner,...

Alexa, play "Graduation" by Vitamin C. Grown-ish fans said goodbye to Francia Raisa (Ana), Emily Arlook (Nomi), Chloe Bailey (Jazz), Luka Sabbat (Luca), Halle Bailey (Sky) and Jordan Buhat (Vivek) in the season four finale. The March 24 episode saw the six students graduate from California University of Liberal Arts, marking the start of their lives in the real world. "Francia, Emily, Chloe, Halle, Luka and Jordan will always be a part of the -ish family," showrunners Zakiyyah Alexander and Courtney Lilly told E! News in a statement. "This new season isn't a goodbye, we are just expanding the world; there will always be an open door for them to return." As...

When Grown-ish Season 5 gets underway, six cast members will be a distant memory.

According to TV Line, Francia Raisa (Ana), Emily Arlook (Nomi), Chloe Bailey (Jazz), Luka Sabbat (Luca), Halle Bailey (Sky), and Jordan Buhat (Vivek) have all exited the Freeform comedy.

The announcement came on the same night the Grown-ish Season 4 finale played out, and thanks to the graduation-themed nature of it all, it's easier to understand the huge overhaul.

“Francia, Emily, Chloe, Halle, Luka and Jordan will always be a part of the -ish’ family. This new season isn’t a goodbye, we are just expanding the world; there will always be an open door for them to return,” said showrunners Zakiyyah Alexander and Courtney Lilly in a statement to TV Line.

“For Season 5, we’re excited to dive deeper into the storylines of Zoey, Aaron and Doug in their post-grad adventures and welcome a new dynamic class to Cal-u,...

Graduation means it’s time to move on. For six members of the cast at grown-ish, the season finale means just that.

The Freeform series.Season 4 finale marked the departures of Francia Raisa (Ana), Emily Arlook (Nomi), Chloe Bailey (Jazz), Luka Sabbat (Luca), Halle Bailey (Sky), and Jordan Buhat (Vivek).

Fortunately, the ensemble will have a few returnees. Yara Shahidi (Zoey), Trevor Jackson (Aaron), and Diggy Simmons (Doug) will be on hand to greet a new collection of students, including black-ish’s Marcus Scribner. Additional casting news is expected soon.

“Francia, Emily, Chloe, Halle, Luka and Jordan will always be a part of the ‘-ish’ family. This new season isn’t a goodbye, we are just expanding the world; there will always be an open door for them to return,” Season 5 showrunners Zakiyyah Alexander and Courtney Lilly said in a statement obtained by Deadline. “For season 5, we’re excited to...

Following a graduation-themed finale for Season 4 of “Grown-Ish,” Freeform announced Thursday night that 6 original series regulars are exiting the “Black-Ish” spinoff.

Francia Raisa, Chloe Bailey, “The Little Mermaid” star Halle Bailey, Emily Arlook, Luka Sabbat, and Jordan Buhat will not be back as regulars when “Grown-Ish” returns for Season 5.

Yara Shahidi (Zoey), Trevor Jackson, and Diggy Simmons are sticking around however. And they’ll be joined by Marcus Scribner, who as announced earlier this month will be making the jump over from “Black-Ish” as Zoey’s younger brother Andre.

“Francia, Emily, Chloe, Halle, Luka and Jordan will always be a part of the -ish’ family. This new season isn’t a goodbye, we are just expanding the world; there will always be an open door for them to return,” showrunners Zakiyyah Alexander and Courtney Lilly said in a statement provided to TVLine. “For Season 5, we’re excited to dive deeper into the storylines of Zoey,...

Thursday’s grown-ish finale (Freeform, 10/9c) marks the end of an era, as Zoey and the class of 2022 graduate from the California University of Liberal Arts — and it’s anyone’s guess what that means for the recently ordered Season 5.

As previously reported, the black-ish spinoff is set to add Marcus Scribner — who has co-starred as Johnson sibling Andre Jr., aka Junior, on all eight seasons of the mothership series — as a series regular for Season 5, as Junior “embarks on his own journey to being ‘grown,'” according to the network.

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We are more than excited-ish about this news! Black-ish may be coming to an end, but that doesn't mean we have to say goodbye to the entire Johnson family. On March 7, Freeform announced that Grown-ish had been renewed for a fifth season.  The twist? Now that the current class is graduating from Cal U, Marcus Scribner is heading over to join his TV sister Yara Shahidi on the Freeform spin-off and will reprise his role as Andre Johnson Jr. as he embarks on his own journey to being "grown."  Zakiyyah Alexander and Black-ish executive producer and showrunner Courtney Lilly will serve as co-showrunners, along with Kenya Barris and Shahidi. Grown-ish is...

Grown-ish is recruiting some black-ish vets for its fifth season at Freeform as the network unveiled Marcus Scribner and showrunner Courtney Lilly will be joining the spinoff series. Award-winning playwright and producer Zakiyyah Alexander will also be joining the college-set series as a co-showrunner alongside Lilly. Along with being picked up for a fifth season, the latest chapter will see Scribner’s black-ish character Andre Johnson Jr. join his big sis Zoey (Yara Shahidi). Courtney Lilly (Credit: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images) While the final season of black-ish is coming to a close, Scribner’s addition to the Cal U crew his TV sister inhabits is a seamless fit for the continuation of this -ish universe. Viewers will follow along as Junior embarks on his own journey to being “grown.” Originally debuting in 2018, grown-ish is currently in its fourth season on Freeform where it airs Thursdays and the next day on Hulu.

"Grown-ish" is returning for another season! Freeform renewed the spinoff series for season five on March 7, while also announcing that "Black-ish" star Marcus Scribner will join the cast to reprise his role as Andre Johnson Jr. Scribner will star alongside his onscreen sister, Yara Shahidi, as he embarks on his own journey of being "grown."

"Black-ish" executive producer Courtney Lilly and producer Zakiyyah Alexander both join the series as the show's new showrunners. Shahidi, Kenya Barris, Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Craig Doyle, Helen Sugland, E. Brian Dobbins, and Michael Petok will produce the fifth installment.

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"Grown-ish" is currently airing new episodes for its fourth season, which is centered around graduation for the show's seniors - which include Zoey (Shahidi), Luca (Luka Sabbat), Jazz (Chlöe), Doug (Diggy Simmons), Ana (Francia Raisa), and Nomi (Emily Arlook) - so it's still...

The end of Cal U doesn’t have to mean the end of grown-ish, as Freeform has renewed the black-ish spinoff for Season 5.

Speaking of black-ish, Marcus Scribner — who has co-starred as Johnson sibling Andre Jr., aka Junior, on all eight seasons of the mothership series — will join grown-ish‘s cast for Season 5 “as he embarks on his own journey to being ‘grown,'” per Freeform’s official announcement. (black-ish‘s series finale airs this spring on ABC.)

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“Black-ish” may be ending, but the series’ creative universe continues: Freeform has ordered a fifth season of spinoff “Grown-ish.” And as “Black-ish” concludes, another one of that long-running series’ cast members is now set to segue over to “Grown-ish”: Marcrus Scribner has officially been added to the show’s cast.

Scribner will reprise his role as Andre Johnson Jr., and as the network explains, “he embarks on his own journey to being ‘grown.'” In moving to “Grown-ish,” Scribner joins his TV sister, Yara Shahidi (who plays Zoey), on the show.

Also, as part of the Season 5 pickup, playwright/producer Zakiyyah Alexander and “Black-ish” executive producer/showrunner Courtney Lilly will take over as co-showrunners. Season 4 showrunner Julie Bean and executive producer Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry are departing the show.

“Grown-ish” will air its Season 4 finale, “Empire State of Mind,” on March 24, featuring Zoey’s college graduation from Cal U.

Scribner...

Grown-ish will return to Freeform for Season 5 with a familiar face and two new showrunners at the helm.

Freeform revealed that the fifth season of the Black-ish spinoff series will add Marcus Scribner to join his on-screen sister Yara Shahidi as Andre Johnson Jr. as he embarks on his journey to being “grown.” Zakiyyah Alexander (Russian Doll) and Black-ish executive producer Courtney Lilly will serve as co-showrunners for Season 5.

Season 4 of Grown-ish, which currently airs on Freeform, follows Zoey (Shahidi) and her classmates on the road to graduation.

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Grown-ish season 5 is executive produced by Kenya Barris, Zakiyyah Alexander, Courtney Lilly, Craig Doyle, Yara Shahidi, Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Helen Sugland, E. Brian Dobbins and Michael Petok. The series is produced by ABC Signature.

Scribner is represented by CAA, Artists First, imPRint and Del Shaw Moonves. Alexander is represented by WME,...

Another member of the Johnson family is headed to Cal U! Freeform’s “grown-ish” has been renewed for Season 5, and Marcus Scribner from “black-ish” will join the cast full time.

Scribner plays Andre Johnson Jr., the younger brother of Yara Shahidi’s Zoey. While Zoey and the rest of her friends at Cal U are set to graduate at the end of the current season, Scribner will now be the one hitting the books as he embarks on his own journey to being “grown.”

Scribner joined the cast of “black-ish” in 2013 as the television son of Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross. The show was his first series regular role. He previously made appearances on “grown-ish,” visiting his sister on campus.

He has won an NAACP Image Award for the role of Junior.

Scribner is represented by CAA, Artists First, imPRint and Del Shaw Moonves.

In other “grown-ish” news Zakiyyah...

Last we left ABC’s The Good Doctor, Shaun had told Lea that he could no longer marry her — and Monday’s midseason premiere did little to assure fans that the series’ central couple would get their happily ever after.

What I found most interesting was the series harkening back to a conversation that Shaun and Lea had almost exactly two years ago, in the Season 3 episode “Autopsy.” At the time, Carly had ended her relationship with Dr. Murphy, realizing that her boyfriend was very much in love with Lea. But when he confronted Lea and said he wanted to be with her,...

Visitors to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., usually start their tour in the belly of the facility, where exhibits drive home the horrifying efficiency with which millions of African people were snatched from their homeland and sold into slavery. As the tour continues upward through the building, visitors traverse centuries of the Black experience in America until they reach an exhibit reflecting the present day.

It was on that highest level where Kenya Barris, during a visit with his family, encountered a surprise that brought him to tears.

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“Hail Mary, full of grace, please have a Kelly Clarkson show up.” That was Katy Perry’s prayer atop Sunday’s season premiere of American Idol, and while everyone knows that the Bible promised us only one Clarkson in this lifetime, we’re down to watch a fresh round of singers attempt to match her greatness.

With Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie back on the panel for a fifth year, Idol celebrated another significant milestone — the franchise’s 20th (!) anniversary — with the introduction of a Platinum Ticket, whose recipients get to bypass the first round of Hollywood Week.

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PaleyFest LA has solidified its lineup of selections for its annual television festival, which salutes the best and buzziest shows. Selections include “Emily in Paris,” “Cobra Kai,” “Black-ish,” “Ghosts,” “The Neighborhood,” “Hacks” and a salute to the “NCIS” universe, celebrating “NCIS,” “NCIS: Los Angeles” and “NCIS: Hawai’i.”

Organizers previously announced that “This Is Us,” “Better Call Saul” and “Riverdale” would grace the Dolby Theatre for Paleyfest’s first in-person program since the TV festival pivoted to virtual, pre-taped panels in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“We are thrilled to announce the full lineup for the 39th Annual PaleyFest LA, the can’t-miss spring festival celebrating creative excellence in television,” said Maureen J. Reidy, the Paley Center for Media’s president and CEO. “PaleyFest returns in person to the Dolby Theatre for the first time in three years, offering Paley Members and devoted TV fans a once-in-a-lifetime experience with the...

PaleyFest 2022 has unveiled its in-person slate for this year’s event, and it includes superheroes and supernatural spirits.

The lineup for the annual TV festival, which will take place from April 2-10 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, will kick off with a panel for This Is Us‘ final season. The event will also recognize two other shows that will be saying goodbye, AMC’s Better Call Saul and ABC’s black-ish.

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PaleyFest LA has released the line-up for its 39th annual television festival, set at the Dolby Theater in April from the 2nd to the 10th. For the first time in 3 years, the celebration will take place in person.

Attendees will be treated to conversations with the casts of This Is Us; Superman & Lois; Black-ish; Ghosts; The Neighborhood; Hacks; Cobra Kai; Riverdale; Better Call Saul; A Salute to the NCIS Universe celebrating NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, and NCIS: Hawai’i; and Emily in Paris.

“We are thrilled to announce the full lineup for the 39th Annual PaleyFest LA, the can’t-miss spring festival celebrating creative excellence in television,” said Maureen J. Reidy, President and CEO of the Paley Center for Media. “PaleyFest returns in person to the Dolby Theatre for the first time in three years, offering Paley Members and devoted TV fans a once-in-a-lifetime experience with the stars and creative...

Black-ish boss Kenya Barris was just hoping to get a show on the air when he first created the family comedy. Now in its final season, the ABC title starring Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross as the pillars of the Johnson family, has far exceeded his expectations.

“We wanted to say something that as much as we grew up loving the Cosby show, the Cosby show happened to be Black and we wanted to do a show that was absolutely, positively, outwardly Black,” Barris said during the comedy’s TCA panel on Tuesday. “I never in a million years imagined that it would become what it’s become. Our lives, and what we’ve done and how it’s allowed us all to grow into what it’s grown into.”

The comedy gave viewers an inside look into the comedic antics of the Johnson family, while also touching on larger,...

Getting Michelle Obama to appear in the socially aware sitcom black-ish’s Season 8 opener came down to a simple text message from cast member Tracee Ellis Ross (Rainbow). “We knew it was [black-ish’s] last season, and we’re like, ‘Hey, Tracee, do you want to send a message to your friend?’” says executive producer Courtney Lilly, laughing. (Credit: ABC/Richard Cartwright) In the episode, Bow drags disgruntled husband Dre (Anthony Anderson) to a When We All Vote fundraiser. She’s on the board — he’s expecting to be bored. Upon arrival, though, they find out the former first lady is a surprise guest, and they bond with her, then invite her to dinner! “Dre and Bow want to have this friendship on their own, apart from the family,” Lilly says. But keeping the rest of the Johnsons from attending proves difficult: On the night Obama visits, “everybody acts a fool and tries to be impressive.

Michelle Obama is set to make her mark on ABC’s Black-ish as the former First Lady is set for a guest star spot when the comedy returns for its eighth and final season in 2022.

The series, created and executive produced by Kenya Barris, will continue to tell stories that shine a light on current events through the lens of the Johnson family, including the global pandemic, voting, systemic racism, and the movement for social justice and equality.

She is set to appear as herself, however details about when she will drop by the Johnson’s world have not been revealed.

Black-ish stars include Anthony Anderson as Andre “Dre” Johnson, Trace Ellis Ross as Rainbow Johnson, Yara Shahidi as Zoey Johnson, Marcus Scribner as Andre Johnson Jr., Miles Brown as Jack Johnson, Marsai Martin as Diane Johnson, Laurence Fishburne as Pops, Jenifer Lewis as Ruby, Peter Mackenzie as Mr. Stevens,...

Baratunde Thurston is adapting his memoir How To Be Black as an animated series for ABC.

The Disney-owned network is developing the project with Thurston, host of the How To Citizen podcast, and Black-ish showrunner Lilly writing and exec producing.

The project is also exec produced by Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland via Cinema Gypsy Productions. 20th Television Animation is the studio.

Thurston’s memoir How to Be Black focuses on the community and family that raised a young Baratunde in 1980s Washington, D.C.

Lilly, who renewed his overall deal with ABC Signature earlier this year, is currently showrunning Black-ish, which is in its eighth and final season.

It marks a new move for ABC into the animated space; if the show is picked up, it would be the network’s first animated comedy series since The Goode Family in 2009.

Thurston is represented by Avalon Management, Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham,...

Baratunde Thurston’s animated project “How to Be Black” has been put into development at ABC, hailing from 20th Television Animation and ABC Signature. Thurston, author of the memoir of the same name and podcast host of “How to Citizen with Baratunde,” will write and executive produce alongside Courtney Lilly, producer and writer known for “Arrested Development” and “The Cleveland Show,” who recently renewed his overall deal with ABC Signature. The bestselling book “How to Be Black” focuses on the community and family that raised a young Thurston in 1980s Washington, D.C.

Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland will also executive produce via Cinema Gypsy Productions, the production banner behind “Black-ish,” “Grown-ish” and “Mixed-ish.” The company, founded in 2000 with an eye toward developing projects that highlight cultural, racial and gender diversity issues in America, produced the hit podcast series, “Bronzeville,” as well as “Thurgood” (HBO), “Five Fingers” (Lionsgate), “Akeelah and the Bee...

ABC has placed Baratunde Thurston’s animated project “How to Be Black” into development. The adaptation of Thurston’s best-selling memoir of the same name will be produced by 20th Television Animation and ABC Signature.

Thurston and Courtney Lilly will write and executive produce the project. Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland will serve as executive producers via Cinema Gypsy Productions.

“How to Be Black” — both the book and the potential television series — focuses on the community and family that raised a young Baratunde in 1980s Washington, D.C.

Thurston is a TV host, author and the creator and host of podcast “How To Citizen with Baratunde.” He’s also a founding partner of the new media startup Puck. He is repped by Kara Baker at Avalon Management, Seth Horwitz at Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham, UTA and ID.

Lilly, who this year renewed his overall deal with ABC Signature,...

Members of the Black-ish producing team have set up a new project at ABC — this one an animated show.

With the series entering its final season in 2022, showrunner Courtney Lilly and executive producers Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland are developing How to Be Black at the network. The project from 20th Television Animation and ABC Signature is based on Baratunde Thurston’s best-selling memoir of the same title.

Thurston and Lilly will write the script for How to Be Black, which focuses on the community and family that raised a young Baratunde in the Washington, D.C., of the 1980s. Should the show make ...

Members of the Black-ish producing team have set up a new project at ABC — this one an animated show.

With the series entering its final season in 2022, showrunner Courtney Lilly and executive producers Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland are developing How to Be Black at the network. The project from 20th Television Animation and ABC Signature is based on Baratunde Thurston’s best-selling memoir of the same title.

Thurston and Lilly will write the script for How to Be Black, which focuses on the community and family that raised a young Baratunde in the Washington, D.C., of the 1980s. Should the show make ...

When George Segal died in March, Wendi McLendon-Covey and her collaborators on ABC comedy series The Goldbergs were put in a difficult situation—unable to pay tribute to him in Season 8, given they were days away from wrapping production.

The series’ EP and star promises, though, that in Season 9, the beloved actor and his character, grandfather Albert “Pops” Solomon, will each get their due.

“Every time we open a season, it’s always a movie tribute, and I’ve got to hand it to our writers. We’re doing a movie tribute that actually takes us on a journey of where to spread Pops’ ashes,” she said. “It’s not only a traditional tribute, but hysterically funny, and you will cry your eyes out. Sean Giambrone and I could barely get through filming and we’ll be mentioning George a lot during this season.”

McLendon-Covey’s comments came during an ABC panel Thursday at TCA,...