TMC
04-19-2016, 01:46 AM
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/25/black-ish-transforms-the-family-sitcom
Barris recalls the long road to getting Black-ish on air, including resisting ABC’s attempts to call it Urban Family or The Johnsons, in a New Yorker profile from Emily Nussbaum (who won a Pulitzer Prize today (http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/emily-nussbaum)). In it, Barris expresses worry over the Hope episode before its airing, discusses ABC’s deep bench of minority show creators and says timeslot competitor Empire just isn’t a good show. “Just because someone’s handicapped, doesn’t mean he’s not an a**hole,” he says of Empire. “I can’t call this dude a d*ck because he’s in a wheelchair? Same thing—just because someone is black and they do something, doesn’t mean it’s dope.”
Barris recalls the long road to getting Black-ish on air, including resisting ABC’s attempts to call it Urban Family or The Johnsons, in a New Yorker profile from Emily Nussbaum (who won a Pulitzer Prize today (http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/emily-nussbaum)). In it, Barris expresses worry over the Hope episode before its airing, discusses ABC’s deep bench of minority show creators and says timeslot competitor Empire just isn’t a good show. “Just because someone’s handicapped, doesn’t mean he’s not an a**hole,” he says of Empire. “I can’t call this dude a d*ck because he’s in a wheelchair? Same thing—just because someone is black and they do something, doesn’t mean it’s dope.”