How Grown-ish Is Creating a New Kind of Spinoff

Now in Season 5, the Freeform series is reinventing itself

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During the final season of ABC’s Black-ish, Marcus Scribner had already said goodbye to his character, Junior.

Scribner didn’t expect to continue the role in Black-ish’s spinoff series Grown-ish, now in its fifth season on Freeform.

“I was kind of shocked because they let me know a couple of days before we wrapped Black-ish, like this was not something that was a long-game process,” Scribner said during an appearance at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour on Tuesday, which went virtual due to a spike in the Covid-19 pandemic.

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