Freeform Orders Season Two of ‘Grown-ish’

Freeform has ordered a second season of Black-ish spinoff Grown-ish. Its series premiere Jan. 3 was Freeform’s highest debut for a comedy in nearly six years, said the network. Freeform has ordered 20 episodes for season two. Season one has 13 episodes.

Grown-ish 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.

The show is about Zoey Johnson, daughter of Andre and Rainbow Johnson, and played by Yara Shahidi, going to college.

Barris said of Grown-ish, “Where Black-ish examines what it means to be black, Grown-ish is an examination of what it is and what it means to be grown.”

The show airs Wednesday nights at 8/7c.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.