Award-winning playwright and producer Zakiyyah Alexander (“Russian Doll,” “La Brea“) and “black-ish” executive producer and showrunner Courtney Lilly will come on board as co-showrunners.
“grown-ish,” which is currently in its fourth season and airs on Thursdays @ 10PM on Freeform and streaming the next day on Hulu, follows Zoey and her classmates on the road to graduation.
The final season of “black-ish” returns with new episodes on Tuesday, March 22, on ABC, and all seasons are available to stream on Hulu.
Season five is executive produced by Kenya Barris, Zakiyyah Alexander, Courtney Lilly, Craig Doyle, Yara Shahidi, Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Helen Sugland, E. Brian Dobbins and Michael Petok. The series is produced by ABC Signature.
Scribner is an NAACP Image Award recipient for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and is represented by CAA, Artists First, imPRint, and Del Shaw Moonves. Alexander is represented by WME, Map Point Management, and Gang Tyre, and Lilly by UTA, Ben Jacobson at The Framework Collective, and attorneys Jeff Frankel and Mike Castrillo at McKuin, Frankel, Whitehead.
Additional casting news is to come at a later date.
