Media Eye News Bureau: A spinoff of the ABC series Black-ish, Grown-ish has been renewed for a 20-episode second season at Freeform.
Created by Kenya Barris, the series follows the story of Dre (Anthony Anderson) and Rainbow Johnson’s (Tracee Ellis Ross) eldest daughter Zoey (Yara Shahidi) as she leaves home and heads to college, and navigates this unpredictable time in a youngster’s life. The comedy tackles current social issues and complexities facing both students and administrators.
In an interview, Barris spoke of the show as he said, “We’re looking at what it’s like to be a college kid in the world that we’re living in today, I really personally feel there hasn’t been another generation that has as much on its shoulders in terms of the world they’re walking into as the generation right now that we see in college.” He further elaborated, “The title is sort of double-entendre. The title is that you’re supposed to be grown but you’re also not quite grown. There’s something debilitating but also freeing with that place in life, the idea that you can be a flawed person and you know you’re flawed, but at the same time it’s a little bit okay because you’re kind of given a little bit of a pass. That’s an interesting place to sort of tell a story from.”
The series is produced by ABC Signature Studios and the executive producers of the show include Helen Sugland, E. Brian Dobbins, Anderson, Laurence Fishburne and Julie Bean.
The series also stars Francia Raisa, Trevor Jackson, Jordan Buhat, Emily Arlook, Deon Cole, and Chris Parnell. YouTube musicians Chloe and Halle Bailey feature on the show as well.
