As Black-ish returns tonight for its fifth season, creator Kenya Barris is no longer overseeing the hit ABC comedy. While he remains as an executive producer, Barris has stepped away from his day-to-day duties on the comedy to focus on the new megadeal that he signed with Netflix in August.
Barris, who was just named Adweek’s TV Creator of the Year, said in this week’s Hot List issue that he decision to leave longtime home ABC Studios for Netflix “came 100 percent down to creative freedom,” noting that chief content officer Ted Sarandos and vp of original series Cindy Holland “were looking for people who could execute shows at a high level and had something that they wanted to say, and that’s exactly what I wanted.
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