Peter Saji: Last News

Black-ish spinoff Mixed-ish is not returning to ABC for a third season.

EXCLUSIVE: Disney General Entertainment has selected 13 participants for its 2023 Writing Program.

EXCLUSIVE: The Lionsgate Television Group has signed an overall deal with Rachelle Williams-BenAry, who served as showrunner and executive producer on the second season of hit comedy Run the World, produced by Lionsgate for Starz.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Four months after TV lit agents David Stone, a partner at WME, and Ben Jacobson, a partner at UTA, left their respective agencies to launch The Framework Collective, the management company has solidified their roster of clients, I have learned. It ranges from established producers, creators and showrunners to next generation voices, a number of whom were former clients of Stone and Jacobson on the agency side.

Will Thorne Staff WriterPeter Saji is staying put at Disney.The “Black-ish” producer and “Mixed-ish” co-creator has signed a new multi-year overall deal with ABC Signature, under which he will continue to create and develop TV projects for the studio.Saji signed his first overall with what was then ABC Studios in 2017 (Disney rebranded its TV units earlier this month), and he in fact began his career at Disney as part of the ABC Writers program back in 2007. News of Saji’s deal was announced by ABC Signature president Jonnie Davis.“Peter has written some of the most evocative and important episodes of ‘Black-ish,’ and hit a real home run for us with ‘Mixed-ish,’” said Davis.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticThe most surefire way to make people interested in a product is to ban it from circulation. ABC found this out the hard way in 2018 when it pulled an episode of “Black-ish” (“Please, Baby, Please”) from its schedule less than a week before it was due to air, which all but guaranteed that it would become the stuff of TV industry legend.