We Are Family!: Black-ish Season 4 Thread

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Looks like half the people that were watching the Roseanne reboot stayed to watch Blackish :smugfavre:
 

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Jr saved this episode in the end, because this episode was all kinds of white acceptance bullshyt.:scusthov:
yeah man, that was an... "interesting" episode.
:francis:

when Bow was going thru Dre's "transitioning" from Howard back into the "white world" was some foreal cringe worthy shyt.
i wish one of these muthafukkas would try and make me feel like i need to be knowing some honkey tonk tunes and shyt.
:stopitslime:

"hey Kingpin, you mean to tell me you never heard of Elvis Costello????!!!!"
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"Hey TIM!! You mean to tell me you never heard of Jeru the Damaja?????!!!!"
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fukk out my face for i ash my cigarette in your eye!
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With both Jr, and Zoey at college, I bet they are going to age Devonte next season. I predict him breaking something, lying on the twins, playing off the young innocent role, getting his siblings in trouble. Jr has become the breakout star, so I hope they keep his scenes on the show.
 

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yeah man, that was an... "interesting" episode.
:francis:

when Bow was going thru Dre's "transitioning" from Howard back into the "white world" was some foreal cringe worthy shyt.
i wish one of these muthafukkas would try and make me feel like i need to be knowing some honkey tonk tunes and shyt.
:stopitslime:

"hey Kingpin, you mean to tell me you never heard of Elvis Costello????!!!!"
:skip:


"Hey TIM!! You mean to tell me you never heard of Jeru the Damaja?????!!!!"
:martin:


fukk out my face for i ash my cigarette in your eye!
:camby:
They tried to make it seem like she was looking out for him, but the truth is she's a mulatto and values whiteness very much. You can tell ABC has officially infiltrated this show now:snoop:
 

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They tried to make it seem like she was looking out for him, but the truth is she's a mulatto and values whiteness very much. You can tell ABC has officially infiltrated this show now:snoop:
yeah. it started looking a lil spooky for me the episode before this one. then you hear about them cancelling an episode and shyt.
smh
ima still watch, but this last episode was really not a good look.
i RARELY take it there like that. but that shyt was stupid.
like, the whole Stanford over Howard shyt came off like it was a joke at first. then we get to the Bow part and im like... "wait, theyre really serious?"
:ohhh:

and no disrespect to Stanford or nothing but you cant be a black man and not feel where Dre was coming from as far as Jr going to aan HBCU. like you dont HAVE to... but consider the experience. especially seeings Jr aint really grew up around black folks like that. so i could dig that.
i dont know.
just another reminder that in AmeriKKKa you HAVE to cater to white people or you wont find any typa success.
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yeah. it started looking a lil spooky for me the episode before this one. then you hear about them cancelling an episode and shyt.
smh
ima still watch, but this last episode was really not a good look.
i RARELY take it there like that. but that shyt was stupid.
like, the whole Stanford over Howard shyt came off like it was a joke at first. then we get to the Bow part and im like... "wait, theyre really serious?"
:ohhh:

and no disrespect to Stanford or nothing but you cant be a black man and not feel where Dre was coming from as far as Jr going to aan HBCU. like you dont HAVE to... but consider the experience. especially seeings Jr aint really grew up around black folks like that. so i could dig that.
i dont know.
just another reminder that in AmeriKKKa you HAVE to cater to white people or you wont find any typa success.
:steezbpchad:
Junior's speech sounded a lot like black folks after visiting Africa for the first time.:wow:
 

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'Black-ish' Creator Kenya Barris Plots Exit From ABC Studios Pact After Clashes (Exclusive)


'Black-ish' Creator Kenya Barris Plots Exit From ABC Studios Pact After Clashes (Exclusive)
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four-year deal he signed in 2017. Those same sources say that Barris is in preliminary talks to join Shonda Rhimes and Ryan Murphy with a mega-deal with Netflix. "Talks are very real," says a source of Barris' potential move to the streaming giant. ABC Studios and Netflix declined to comment; calls and emails to CAA and Principato-Young, who rep Barris, were not returned.

Barris would be a logical fit for Netflix, which is seeking what chief content officer Ted Sarandos has called a "rare class of creator" who can deliver hits that are both critically and commercially successful. Barris has proved the ability to deliver that on both the film and TV side. Also of interest to the streaming service, which is looking to satisfy its 117 million subscribers: prolific producers of content. Again, Barris delivered, overseeing a show and a spinoff while also developing aggressively on TV and in film.

The news comes after a series of tough breaks at ABC. Last month, for instance, ABC yanked a politically themed episode of Black-ish following creative differences between ABC and Barris. At the time, ABC called the decision to scrap it a mutual one between the network and Barris, though sources say otherwise. The episode was poised to feature star Anthony Anderson's Dre relaying his concerns about the current stage of the country to his son. (Black-ish has yet to be renewed for a fifth season, though it is considered a slam dunk to return.)

Since first signing with the Disney-owned studio in 2015, Barris has become its top comedy writer-producer. In addition to Black-ish, Barris has developed multiple projects for the network but landed only one series pickup: spinoff Grown-ish, which was originally developed for ABC but skewed too young, sources said, and was moved to cable sibling Freeform (where it was renewed for a supersized second season). Grown-ish was one of three projects Barris developed for ABC in 2017. Politically themed family comedy Libby and Malcolm, starring Felicity Huffman and Courtney B. Vance with a script from Barris, was considered a frontrunner to go to series given its timely premise of two politically divided pundits who fall in love. ABC passed. The network also went to pilot on Toni Collette CIA drama Unit Zero, a passion project for Barris who described it as the "type of drama television I love doing. It pulls back the curtain on what it's like to be a woman in a historically male-dominated field and it shows underrepresented voices." It did not go to series.

This season, ABC handed out a straight-to-series order for a family comedy written by Barris with Alec Baldwin attached to executive produce and potentially star. Baldwin ultimately exited the multicamera comedy after reading the script and the series order was downgraded to pilot before ultimately being rolled off-cycle after trouble casting a lead of his caliber. (Sources say the project may never see the light of day.) Meanwhile, Barris-produced single-camera comedy Bright Futures landed at another network — NBC — with a late-season pilot order.

Barris, meanwhile, already has business with Netflix for a feature film reboot of Shaft, with New Line producing the script written by Barris starring Samuel L. Jackson. Barris is also attached to rewrite a script for a sequel to Eddie Murphy's Coming to America. Both of those projects follow the breakout success of Girls Trip, which has grossed more than $140 million worldwide on a budget of $19 million. With film and TV chops, many industry insiders have said Barris' brand would be a likely fit with Netflix. (Barris, it should be noted, has a film deal with Fox, though it's unclear when that expires.)

Should Barris sign a deal with Netflix, he would join Shonda Rhimes (Scandal, Grey's Anatomy) and Ryan Murphy (Glee, American Crime Story) at the streaming service. Rhimes and Murphy each inked nine-figure mega-deals with the streamer, exiting their longtime homes at ABC Studios and 20th Century Fox Television, respectively, and helping to further ignite a war for talent among broadcast, cable and streamers. It's also worth noting that ABC Studios let Rhimes out of her deal in order to sign with Netflix as she had a year remaining with the company. If Barris were to follow suit, ABC Studios would have lost its top comedy and drama producers.
 
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