'Grown-ish' Renewed for Fifth Season With 'Black-ish' Star Marcus Scribner Joining the Cast
etonline.com, and Freeform has officially renewed the Emmy-nominated series for a fifth season! Along with the renewal news, the network announced that star Marcus Scribner will join his TV sister, Yara Shahidi, on the spinoff, reprising his role as Andre Johnson Jr.
as he embarks on his own journey to being «grown.»Scribner has portrayed the eldest Johnson son throughout the show's seven-season run, which will wrap with the currently airing final season.
During his time on the series, Scribner has starred alongside an all-star cast, including Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross, who play his parents, Andre and Rainbow Johnson, and Laurence Fishburne and Jenifer Lewis, who play his grandparents.
Additionally, other family members are played by Shahidi, Marsai Martin, Miles Brown, and Berlin and August Gross. The Instagram page celebrated the renewal and Scriber's casting reveal on its account, sharing a photo of the actor holding up a script and welcoming him to the series, writing, «Welcome to cal u, junior. @marcusscribner is joining the cast of #grownish in season 5!»A post shared by freeform’s grown-ish (@grownish)Freeform also announced that award-winning playwright and producer Zakiyyah Alexander and executive producer and showrunner Courtney Lilly will come on board as co-showrunners for the show's fifth season.When Scribner spoke with ET last month, he shared that he hopes fans will remember for years to come.«I feel like for me, shows like , , I would see reflections of myself on TV,» he said while serving as guest host. «And I hope they can take that away and remember fondly, 'Oh, I love Jr.
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