Regina Hicks Inks Overall Deal With Netflix; Sets Comedy Series With Barack & Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground As First Project

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The Upshaws co-creator Regina Hicks is expanding her relationship with Netflix with a multi-year overall deal. Under the pact, Hicks will create, write and produce new series and other projects for…

Hicks is currently co-creator and co-showrunner with Wanda Sykes for Netflix’s breakout multi-camera comedy series, starring Mike Epps, Sykes and Kim Fields. The series, which premiered in May, has been renewed for a second season.stars Epps as Bennie Upshaw, the head of a Black working class family in Indianapolis, a charming, well-intentioned mechanic and lifelong mess just trying his best to step up and care for his family. Fields plays his wife and Sykes portrays his sardonic sister-in-law.

Written by Hicks, the untitled comedy series in development will focus on the lives of four middle-aged Black women from Houston, TX and explore how they navigate a world of affluence while also balancing the everyday scenarios of women of a certain age. Hicks also will serve as showrunner and executive produce alongside Higher Ground. Tonia Davis and Ada Chiaghana will oversee for Higher Ground.was shot for ABC with Viola Davis producing. Prior to that, she served as a co-executive producer for Showtime’s

 

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