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Saturday, September 14, 2019

Mixed-ish!

Kenya Barris final installment to Black-ish is Mixed-ish.
The prequel to Black-ish (black-ish).

The hit sitcom featuring Anthony Anderson, Tracee Ellis Ross and Laurence Fishburne is entering its sixth season. Its spin-off, Grown-ish (grown-ish) is heading into its third season on Freeform.

Now the creator Kenya Barris is branching off Rainbow Johnson's life. The show is executive produced by Barris, Anderson, Ross and Fishburne.

Mariah Carey confirmed that she has co-written and co-produced (with songwriter/producer Daniel Moore) a song called "In the Mix." Carey will perform the single.

Carey may appear in some episodes in the near future.

It features Tika Sumpter, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Gary Cole, Christina Anthony, Mykal-Michelle Harris, Ethan Willaim Childress and Arica Himmel as "Bow" Johnson as a child.

The show was produced for Netflix. But ABC managed to arm twist Barris into doing one more show before he was exiting ABC Studios. Barris was frustrated with the network cancelling or postponing episodes they deem too controversial. Some of the notable episodes involved Donald J. Trump, Black Lives Matter, firearms and abortion.

The show deals with Bow's life in the 1980s with a white father and black mother.
Mixed-ish will focus on the Rainbow Johnson's life as a biracial teenager.
The show is a recount of the experiences of growing up in a mixed-race family in the 1980s and the constant dilemmas Bow and her family faces. It deals with Bow trying to accept her hippie mother and father's life in suburbia.

It also gives her a challenge entering a school where acceptance is not what she was expecting.

The show is supposed to premiere on September 24. It will run on Tuesday along with Black-ish.

By the way, Tracee Ellis Ross has reunited with her former co-stars of Girlfriends.



Jill Marie Jones, Persia White and Golden Brooks will appear on the season premiere of Black-ish.

The four were the stars of the UPN/CW sitcom Girlfriends which was a successful African American sitcom. It also became the launching pad for The Game which featured Tia Mowry-Hardrict.

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