Video/News: Freeform Renews Grown-ish For Second Season

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Video/News: Freeform Renews <i>Grown-ish</i> For Second Season 1

GROWN-ISH – Season 1 (Freeform/Andrew Eccles)
YARA SHAHIDI

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SEASON 2 ORDER OF ‘GROWN-ISH’

NETWORK ORDERS 20-EPISODES OF CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED SERIES

(Los Angeles, CA – January 18, 2017) — At Freeform’s inaugural Freeform Summit on Thursday, January 18, 2018 in Los Angeles, during kickoff panel conversation featuring Kenya Barris and Yara Shahidi, among others, “grown-ish” executive producer alongside executive vice president, programming & development, Karey Burke, surprised series lead, Shahidi, with the news that the network has ordered a second season of the critically-acclaimed breakout comedy. The premiere, which boasted Freeform’s highest debut for a comedy in nearly six years, also earned critical praise from Deadline, which called the series “straight up good, no –ish required,” and BuzzFeed declared, “glows from the inside out.”

Video/News: Freeform Renews <i>Grown-ish</i> For Second Season 2

GROWN-ISH – Freeform’s “grown-ish” stars Chris Parnell as Dean Parker, Jordan Buhat as Vivek, Emily Arlook as Nomi Segal, Yara Shahidi as Zoey Johnson, Trevor Jackson as Aaron, Fancia Raisa as Ana Torres and Deon Cole as Charlie Telphy. (Freeform/Andrew Eccles)

Freeform’s “grown-ish,” a half-hour comedy tackling current social issues and complexities facing both students and administrators, follows Zoey (Yara Shahidi), Dre (Anthony Anderson) and Rainbow’s (Tracee Ellis Ross) popular, entitled, stylish and socially active 17-year-old daughter from ABC’s Emmy®-nominated comedy “black-ish,” as she heads into her freshman year of college at Cal U.

The series is produced by ABC Signature Studios and is executive produced by Kenya Barris, Helen Sugland, E. Brian Dobbins, Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne and Julie Bean. “grown-ish” airs Wednesday nights at 8/7c on Freeform.

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