An episode of hit US sitcom Black-ish, which was pulled by ABC over concerns that it was too anti-Trump, has become available to watch for the first time.
The network dropped Please, Baby, Please in 2018 because it was worried about the script’s “partisanship”, creator Kenya Barris said at the time.
Barris has now said he went back to ABC in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests to ask it to reconsider.
“We hope it inspires some much-needed conversation,” Barris said.
“[Conversation] not only about what we were grappling with then or how it led to where we are now, but conversations about where we want our country to go moving forward and, most importantly, how we get there together.”
The Golden Globe-winning Black-ish follows the lives of an upper-middle-class African-American family led by Andre “Dre” Johnson, played by Anthony Anderson, and Rainbow Johnson, played by Tracee Ellis Ross.
It’s known for tackling social issues alongside personal ones. However, Please, Baby, Please supposedly contained more anti-Trump material than the show had tackled before, at a time when ABC was courting more conservative viewers.
The episode sees Dre improvising a bedtime story to his young son, in which he expresses many of his concerns about the state of the US a year after Donald Trump – whom he calls “the Shady King” – was elected
Credit: bbc.com
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