Black-ish
Sign in to saveBlack-ish (stylized as '`black·ish''') is an American sitcom television series created by Kenya Barris. It aired on ABC from September 24, 2014, to April 19, 2022, running for eight seasons with 176,588 episodes. Black-ish'' follows an upper class well-off Black family headed by Andre "Dre" Johnson, a successful advertising executive (Anthony Anderson), and his wife Rainbow "Bow", an anaesthesiologist (Tracee Ellis Ross). The show revolves around the wealthy Johnson family as they juggle personal, familial and sociopolitical issues, particularly in trying to reconcile their desire to stay true
TV series · TMDB
★ 7.1A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.
- Aired
- 2014–2022
- Seasons
- 8 · 175 episodes
- Status
- Ended
- Created by
- Kenya Barris
- Network
- ABC
- Genres
- Comedy
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Key facts
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- Television.genre
- Sitcom
- Television.creator
- Kenya Barris
- Television.narrated
- Anthony Anderson
- Television.theme_music_composer
- Transcenders
- Television.country
- United States
- Television.language
- English
- Television.num_seasons
- 8
- Television.num_episodes
- 175
- Television.list_episodes
- List of Black-ish episodes
- Television.camera
- Single-camera
- Television.runtime
- 22 minutes
- Television.network
Article
26 sectionsContents
- Cast and characters
- Main cast
- Recurring cast
- Episodes
- Production
- Development and casting
- Filming
- Reception
- Nielsen ratings
- Critical response
- Season 1 (2014–2015)
- Season 2 (2015–2016)
- Season 3 (2016–2017)
- Season 4 (2017–2018)
- Season 5 (2018–2019)
- Season 6 (2019–2020)
- Season 7 (2020–2021)
- Season 8 (2021–2022)
- Accolades
- Spin-offs
- ''Grown-ish''
- ''Mixed-ish''
- ''Old-ish''
- Notes
- References
- External links
Black-ish (stylized as '`black·ish''') is an American sitcom television series created by Kenya Barris. It aired on ABC from September 24, 2014, to April 19, 2022, running for eight seasons with 176,588 episodes. Black-ish'' follows an upper class well-off Black family headed by Andre "Dre" Johnson, a successful advertising executive (Anthony Anderson), and his wife Rainbow "Bow", an anaesthesiologist (Tracee Ellis Ross). The show revolves around the wealthy Johnson family as they juggle personal, familial and sociopolitical issues, particularly in trying to reconcile their desire to stay true to their Black identities with their choice to live in a wealthy, suburban white neighborhood.
The show also features confident oldest child Zoey (Yara Shahidi), nerdy elder son Andre Jr., aka Junior (Marcus Scribner), and twins Jack (Miles Brown) and Diane (Marsai Martin). In later seasons, additional characters including Dre's mother Ruby Johnson (Jenifer Lewis), his co-workers Josh Oppenhol (Jeff Meacham) and Charlie Telphy (Deon Cole), his boss Leslie Stevens (Peter Mackenzie), his and Bow's youngest child Devante Johnson (August and Berlin Gross), and Junior's girlfriend Olivia Lockhart (Katlyn Nichol) are promoted to series regulars, while Dre's father (and Ruby's ex-husband that she remarried), Earl Johnson (Laurence Fishburne), is a recurring character throughout the series.
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