"Black-Ish" Episode Shelved Over Creative & Political Differences

[Initech]

ABC has indefinitely shelved a politically and socially themed episode of “Black-ish” as a result of creative differences with showrunner Kenya Barris. The network has no plan at this time to air the episode or make it available through other forms of distribution.

Titled “Please, Baby, Please,” the episode was originally set to air Feb. 27. ABC revealed in a scheduling announcement on Feb. 22 that the episode would be replaced with a rerun of the single-camera family comedy, but did not provide any additional detail at that time about why the change had been made or when “Please, Baby, Please” would air.

“One of the things that has always made ‘Black-ish’ so special is how it deftly examines delicate social issues in a way that simultaneously entertains and educates,” an ABC spokesperson told Variety Friday. “However, on this episode there were creative differences we were unable to resolve.”

Shot in November and directed by Barris, “Please, Baby, Please” features Anthony Anderson’s patriarch Dre caring for his infant son on the night of an intense thunderstorm that keeps the whole household awake. Dre attempts to read the baby a bedtime story, but abandons that plan when the baby continues to cry. He instead improvises a bedtime story that, over the course of the episode, conveys many of Dre’s concerns about the current state of the country.

http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/abc-shelves-blackish-political-1202722980/

What politics is doing to us. You either buy into the Fox News cult, or you don't.

[Proud liberal 80]

1. I dont get it

By not airing it ABC is making a bigger deal about this. It’s not like the show would have lost viewers or would have boycotted because I doubt any right wingers are watching the show.

[Initech]

3. I kind of want to watch it more now!

[NCTraveler]

2. I have watched a couple episodes of this show.

Pretty forward thinking and well thought out. I was a bit surprised by how bold they were in "stereotyping" one of the characters.

Sounds like an interesting approach to an episode they have outlined.