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ATX Television Festival-goers were treated to a never-before-seen upcoming episode from Season 2B of Freeform’s Grown-ish series, followed by a Q&A session with executive producer Craig Doyle and stars Yara Shahidi, Francia Raisa, Jordan Buhat, and Trevor Jackson. The second half of the season will continue to follow…

“What does America mean to you?” If it’s a tale of star-crossed young love threatened by a looming deportation from said Beacon of Liberty, check out the first trailer for The Sun Is Also a Star, featuring Grown-ish‘s Yara Shahidi and Riverdale‘s Charles Melton. Here’s the logline: College-bound romantic Daniel Bae…

In the New Hollywood Podcast’s first installment of a live series of episodes, Amanda N’Duka traveled to our friendly neighbor to the north to moderate a special panel at the Toronto International Film Festival. The panel featured filmmakers from Shatterbox, a platform from Refinery29 that gives female storytellers…

Becoming a household name as the privileged, popular and highly intelligent Zoey Johnson in ABC’s critically-acclaimed comedy Black-ish—a role she booked only a few short years ago—Yara Shahidi was challenged recently to step to center stage for Freeform spin-off Grown-ish, a series that sees the Johnson’s eldest…

Grown-ish star Yara Shahidi teased Season 2 of Freeform’s Black-ish spinoff series today at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys, and reflected on her transition from the show’s mothership Black-ish. “I know little to nothing about Season 2. What I can say is I'm really looking forward to Zoey actually going to class,&#8221…

Amy Schumer, Connie Britton, Olivia Wilde, Skai Jackson and Yara Shahidi are among the speakers set to take the stage at the Los Angeles March For Our Lives rally Saturday, with singer-songwriter Charlie Puth among the musical performers slated. The actors will share the stage with students from Marjory Stoneman…

The new year is kicking off with a flurry of new shows and seasons, but few will be as good in the early part of 2018 as Freeform’s January 3-debuting Grown-ish. A spinoff of ABC's Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated Black-ish, the 13-episode college-set series led by Yara Shahidi is both funny and…

EXCLUSIVE: The spinoff of ABC’s acclaimed family comedy Black-ish, toplined by young co-star Yara Shahidi, is eying a series green light with a twist — it would be moving to another network. I've learned that Freeform is in talks for a series order to the project, which originated as a planted spinoff episode of the…

EXCLUSIVE UPDATED: ABC is looking to spin off its acclaimed family comedy Black-ish. I’ve learned that the network is working with series creator/executive producer Kenya Barris and ABC Studios on the project, which would be toplined by Black-ish co-star Yara Shahidi and focus on her character Zoey Johnson in college…

If you were to judge Hollywood by those attending the PGA's 8th annual Produced By Conference, you'd never know that the film and TV industry has a diversity problem. Men and women, in equal numbers, and people of all races were generously represented – not only in the audiences, but on many of the panels, as…