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Kenya Barris Details Reasons Behind The Shelved ‘Black-ish’ Episode On ‘The Daily Show’

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Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorBlack-ish creator Kenya Barris joined Trevor Noah on The Daily Show Thursday night where he talked about the decision to shelve a highly political episode of the praised series, and what led to its recent resurrection.

As we reported Monday, more than two years after ABC decided not to air the “Please Baby Please” episode, it is now available on Hulu.As to why the episode, which Barris acknowledged was “blatantly the most partisan episode of Black-ish we’ve ever done,” was initially shelved, Barris told Noah it was “creative differences” over what should and should not be included in the episode and that he was not willing to compromise on things he felt were critical.

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