Kenya Barris Eying ViacomCBS Studio Venture, Netflix Exit

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Kenya Barris, the prolific producer of ABC's 'Black-ish' and its many Disney-owned spinoffs is said to be in talks with ViacomCBS about his next act, a studio venture with the media giant

episodes amid the civil unrest this summer, Barris praised the executives there and waxed on about how much he'd missed being a part of the water cooler conversation. At one point, there were even rumblings that Barries may try to go back to Disney.

Like others with giant Netflix deals, Barris is a hugely prolific force -- one who can famously write pilots or hit movies in a matter of days, and often does. His resume in film includesand an upcoming Richard Prior biopic, and there are probably 12 more scripts coming. In TV, he’s had just as many ideas but struggled to get many of them made during his time at Disney, and is said to have met some resistance with his free-flow of ideas at Netflix as well.

 

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He kind of looks like Bizzarro The Rock!

Looking weirdly like bootleg Dwayne Johnson in this pic ngl.

Ka-Ching!

He already has a deal at netflix how would this work exactly

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