How Netflix Snagged <em>Black-ish</em> Creator Kenya Barris
The showrunner recently departed ABC for the streaming network, joining the ranks of Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes in the process.
Star Hollywood writer Kenya Barris climbed the Hollywood ladder for years and had supposedly reached its apex. Beginning with brief writing stints on shows like and , Barris then served as a writer and producer on thesitcom , before creating his own show, , on ABC. It was a critical and commercial hit, and with that came a spinoff ( on Freeform), hit movies () and a production deal with ABC. But in Hollywood, even great success comes with tradeoffs—Barris clashed with ABC over ’s content, and the over “creative differences” last February.
