‘grown-ish’ Earns an Early Season 2 Renewal

grown-ish renewed for season 2
Chris Parnell, Jordan Buhat, Emily Arlook, Yara Shahidi, Trevor Jackson, Fancia Raisa and Deon Cole in ‘grown-ish’ (Freeform/Andrew Eccles)

Freeform has given an early season two renewal order to grown-ish, the popular spinoff from the award-winning series, black-ish. Freeform made the announcement on January 18, 2018 during the first-ever Freeform Summit held in Los Angeles.

The network gave the series a 20 episode season two order after airing just four episodes of season one, increasing the episode order from season one’s 13. grown-ish debuted to the network’s highest numbers for a comedy series in six years, with more than 1.56 million people tuning in to watch the series’ first episode which aired on January 3rd.

grown-ish airs on Wednesday nights at 8pm ET/PT. The half-hour comedy stars Yara Shahidi, Trevor Jackson, Jordan Buhat, Emily Arlook, Francia Raisa, Chris Parnell, and Deon Cole. grown-ish is executive produced by Kenya Barris, Helen Sugland, E. Brian Dobbins, Anthony Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, and Julie Bean.


The Plot: A contemporary take on the current issues facing both students and administrators in the world of higher education. Yara Shahidi portrays Zoey – Dre (Anthony Anderson) and Rainbow’s (Tracee Ellis Ross) popular, entitled, stylish and socially active 17-year-old daughter — as she heads off to college and quickly discovers that not everything goes her way once she leaves the nest.

Yara is joined by black-ish’s Deon Cole (Charlie) who portrays Charlie, Dre’s eccentric and unpredictable co-worker at Stevens & Lido. Zoey runs into Charlie during college orientation where she learns that he moonlights as an adjunct marketing professor. Arlook will portray Miriam, a freshman know-it-all at Southern California University with a no-holds-barred attitude. Parnell will portray the dean of Southern California University, and Jackson will portray a socially conscious sophomore at Southern California University.

Details on the January 24th “C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me)” Episode: When Zoey’s Instagram becomes a flooded with haters, she wonders if it’s time to alter her brand.