Kenny Smith is moving from Disney to NBCUniversal.The Black-ish co-showrunner has struck an overall deal with Universal Television.
He was previously under a three-year overall deal at ABC Studios.Smith will develop and produce projects across various platforms for the studio and also recently joined Universal Television’s and NBC’s comedy series Kenan as co-showrunner alongside David Caspe.
The Kenan Thompson-fronted comedy is returning for a second season.In addition to taking over from Kenya Barris as co-showrunner of ABC comedy Black-ish, he developed a number of projects at the Disney-owned studio, including None of the Above, which was ordered to pilot at Freeform.Other TV credits include NBC’s Marlon, ABC’s Uncle Buck and BET’s The
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