freshman comedy has the makings of success
each of its first five episodes hovering around seven or eight million viewers, compared to its lead-in’s roughly nine million. When you consider the show’s ill-fated forerunners, that’s not too shabby.
The series follows an upper middle-class black family whose patriarch, Andre “Dre” Johnson, is played by comedian Anthony Anderson (“Law & Order”). Dre’s an executive at a major ad agency and his mixed-race wife, Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross, “Girlfriends”), is a doctor, so the family is pretty well-to-do.
Though he’s happy to be able to give his four kids the opportunities and advantages he lacked growing up, it dawns on Dre that the affluence they’ve always known has caused them to grow up detached from their racial background. It all comes to a head in the pilot episode when Dre’s 13-year-old son, Andre Jr., declares that he’d rather play field hockey than basketball and wants to have a bar mitzvah, despite the fact that neither he nor the family is Jewish. Andre Jr., played by Marcus Scribner in the
young actor’s first starring role, prefers to go by Andy and, in the third episode, fails to give “the nod” to another black kid in his school. This incites disbelieving horror from his proud father, who has vowed to instill in his kids the
lation of today’s young people in a general sense.
“I feel like my kids are a little bit of a lesser version of what I remember the ideology of what black was,” the show’s creator told the “Hollywood Reporter.” “At the same time, all of their friends — who are mostly non-black kids — are a little bit more black than I remember. They’re sort of black-ish, all their little friends, and my kids are sort of black-ish.”
Two-time Emmy winner Laurence Fishburne (“The Matrix,” 1999), who lights up the screen as Dre’s crusty and tell-it-like-it-is father, added to the explanation of the concept when he visited “The View.” “For some people, it means when black folks kind of act white,” he said. “For some folks, it means when white folks kind of act black. If you like rock ‘n’ roll, if you like rhythm and blues, if you like jazz, if you like hip-hop, you might be black-ish.”
Where the series stands strong is that it doesn’t beat you over the head with the theme from week to week — which a lesser show would surely be apt to do. While the pilot was pretty heavily laced with Dre’s borderline-obsessive
voiceovers about black this and black that, it’s a fair enough expectation for the setup episode.
The episodes that follow still keep to the theme, but the storylines incorporate broader issues and everyman problems that all families of all races face, from struggling to bond with one’s teenagers to agonizing about whether to spank a misbehaving or “deserving” child.
“It mirrors humanity,” Anderson told “The Hollywood Reporter” during a recent interview. “If you like life, you’ll dig the show.”
This relatability, paired with genuine humor, could very well give “Black-ish” the staying power that previous “Modern Family” followers sorely lacked.
Providing something that appeals to everyone is a hard thing to achieve, but just about everyone can relate to the ups and downs of family life. As Whoopi Goldberg commented after Fishburne’s “The View” interview: “Whatever your ‘ish’ is, this is your family.” Catch the newest episode of “Black-ish” airing Wednesday, Nov. 26, on ABC.
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FSN Vikings: Beyond the Gridiron (0:30)
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11:00 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
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11:30 p.m. NBCSN Opening Day (1:00)
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FSN NHL Hockey L.A. vs. Min. St. Paul, Minn. (1:30)
GOLF Golf Channel Academy (0:30)
NBCSN NFL Turning Point (1:00)
9:30 a.m. GOLF LPGA Golf ISPS Handa Heroes. Naples, Fla. (2:30)
10:00 a.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:00)
NBCSN NFL Turning Point (1:00)
10:30 a.m. FSN NBA Basketball Mil. vs. Min. Minneapolis, Minn. (1:30)
11:00 a.m. (7) KCCO The NFL Today (Live) (0:30)
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ESPN2 NCAA Basketball Quarter-final Orlando Classic. S. Clar. vs. Ten. Orlando, Fla. (Live) (2:00)
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ESPN NCAA Basketball Semifinal Battle 4 Atlantis. Nassau, Bahamas (Live) (2:00)
FSN NHL Hockey L.A. vs. Min. St. Paul, Minn. (1:30)
GOLF APGA Golf Round 1 Australian Open. Sydney, Australia (5:00)
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NBCSN Jimmy Houston Outdoors (0:30)
8:30 a.m. FSN A Piece of the Game (0:30)
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NBCSN EPL Soccer (Live) (2:00)
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HBO Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel (1:00)
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(11) KARE Vikings: Beyond the Gridiron (0:30)
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9:00 p.m. ESPN2 College Football Scoreboard (Live) (0:30)
HBO Boxing Crawford vs. Beltran HBO After Dark. (2:45)
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9:45 p.m. ESPN SportsCenter (1:15)
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What is it about high-pressure cooking and high-stakes gambling that makes them go so well together?
Is that a weird question? They’re really not two things that traditionally go hand in hand, and yet if the incredible success of the Food Network’s “Cutthroat Kitchen” has taught us anything, it’s that there’s a huge appetite for this unconventional melange.
Alright, so “Cutthroat Kitchen” isn’t really gambling — the contestants aren’t actually betting their own money, just the cash prize that they could potentially win. But it still adds a tense element to the Alton Brown-hosted show that would otherwise be absent.
In a similar vein, the network’s latest competition, “Kitchen Inferno,” ups the stakes for its contestants, who have the opportunity to walk away with a hefty amount of cash — or lose it all if they get too cocky.
Airing Wednesday nights on the Food Network, the Curtis Stonehosted “Kitchen Inferno” premiered earlier this month and is already heating up the airwaves with a new episode on Nov. 26.
There’s ultimately $25,000 at stake here, but that prize isn’t guaranteed. In a format that brings to mind “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” and similar game shows, the contestants will face progressively more difficult culinary challenges as they work their way up the ladder. They can walk away at any time and keep the cash they’ve won so far, but the temptation of more money is always there. Of
course, should they push on and lose a challenge, they also lose all of the money that they’ve won.
Like any good cooking contest, though, the competition is really just a fun window dressing for the best part: watching skilled chefs put together amazing dishes while under incredible pressure.
“Kitchen Inferno” is an exciting new take on the popular cooking competition genre, and it’s definitely heating up Wednesday nights. Take a risk and check out the Curtis Stone-hosted show when a new episode airs Wednesday, Nov. 26, on Food Network.
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