Black-ish to end with Season 8

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Kenya Barris announced this morning that ABC has renewed his acclaimed comedy for an eighth and final season. Black-ish is down 8% this season, its seventh, with an average of 2.4 million viewers. It is ABC's No. 4 comedy in the demo, behind The Goldbergs, The Conners and American Housewife. "To ALL the people in the world I love, honor, respect and care for it is both exciting and bittersweet to share that black-ish has been RENEWED by ABC for it’s EIGHTH... and FINAL SEASON," Barris wrote on Instagram. "In this day and age it is rare to get to decide when your show should come to an end, and we are grateful along with ABC to be able to make this final season exactly what we’d hoped for – and to do it with the entire and AMAZINGLY STELLAR cast coming back to close this chapter out with us the right way! This show has changed my life in so many ways and I am so proud of the conversations we’ve started along the way. None of this would have been possible without our audience and supporters, who have championed the show every step of the journey; allowing us to change not just the narrative of Black Families, but of Family, Culture, and the World in general. All the while allowing us to talk about things that people were not supposed to talk about period... especially on a network television comedy."

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Happy they get a final season

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A Brown-ish Latinx-themed comedy from Black-ish creator Kenya Barris and Eva Longoria is in the works at ABC, but Old-ish appears to be dead

While Black-ish is headed into its final season and Mixed-ish has been canceled, Barris has been working on making more "ish" shows with the previously announced Old-ish, built around Laurence Fishburne and Jenifer Lewis’ characters. Barris and Longoria are also teaming on Brown-ish, about a modern Latinx family. “Brown-ish is still a concept that is in development, we haven’t rolled out the firm plans around that yet,” Craig Erwich, president of ABC Entertainment and Hulu Originals, told Deadline. “On Old-ish, we have no current plans to make it as a pilot.” Erwich added: “When we talk about the world of Black-ish, there are so many different iterations that we are open to; it’s really up to Kenya who is the master and the captain of the franchise." ABC also explored a Mitch & Cam spinoff of Modern Family this season. “We don’t have any current plans to do that,” Erwich said about a potential Modern Family spinoff, “but we are always on a lookout for amazing storytellers and stories, whether they are original or stem from storied franchises like Modern Family.”

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Comedian Deon Cole delved into his perspectives on the conclusion of the hit TV show, "Black-ish," attributing its end to financial disputes. Cole expressed regret over the lack of collective negotiation among the cast, drawing parallels with successful negotiations seen in iconic shows like "Modern Family" and "Friends." He suggested that unified demands could have prevented the show's untimely end. Cole reflected on the impact "Black-ish" had over its eight-season run, noting its potential to go beyond. He recalled discussions as early as season three about how the show's portrayal of African American life was transformative, emphasizing the need for earlier conversations about compensation.