Kenya Barris sees plenty-ish room for one more Black-ish spin-off

According to a recent interview with Deadline, the #blackAF creator and star spoke a little bit about his time at Netflix, his guiding philosophies when it comes to developing projects with others (“I sold enough pilots and I’ve seen enough untalented people I was working with take credit. That’s why, to this day, I do not take credit for anything. If I’m in a room with anyone, if I get a chance to speak, I’m like, ‘That was such and such’s joke’”), and his experience in front of the camera for his Netflix series. Towards the end, he was asked about the possibility of doing one more spin-off to join the likes of Grown-ish and Mixed-ish.

“We’re brewing it, yeah,” Barris confirmed. “It’s something I’m really super excited about. Yeah, we’re brewing it, and hopefully it gets done, and adds to that world in a really special way.” Apparently, the fact that he traded in his development deal with ABC for a much bigger one with Netflix shouldn’t complicate matters too much, even though all Black-ish adjacent content exists on Disney-affiliated properties. As long as he, as states, remains contractually “within that world,” the potential new addition gel with the rest. And the project could provide a different kind of reset for Barris. “It’s actually sometimes a little bit nicer to go and do network television because it’s a little bit freeing in a different kind of way because you get to tell different kinds of stories.”