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‘Black-ish’ & ‘One Day At A Time’ EPs Talk Animating Episodes Of Live-Action Sitcoms Amid Pandemic; Brent Miller Teases Animated ‘Good Times’
The Industry Oct 05, 2020
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Left to Right: ‘Black-ish’ showrunner Courtney Lilly, ‘One Day at a Time’ creator Gloria Calderon Kellett, ‘ODAAT’ EP Brent Miller and Smiley Guy Studios’ Jonas Diamond In the year of the coronavirus pandemic, many TV producers have had to get creative, to figure out how to keep their shows on the air, even as production across the world was shut down. During the last seven months of lockdown, the visionaries behind two-live action sitcoms—ABC/ABC Signature’s Black-ish and Pop/Sony Pictures TV’s One Day at a Time —wound up taking the same tack to do just that, presenting animated episodes of their shows for the first time. The animated Black-ish episode airs this Sunday, Oct. 4, as part of an hourlong special. For the producers, the idea in going animated was to tide over fans during the production shutdown, keeping each series in the cultural conversation, as they worked to pull together another full, live-action season. “Hustlers gotta hustle,” says One Day at a Time co-creator/exec producer/co-showrunner Gloria Calderon Kellett , “and we’ve been hustling with this show from the get-go.” ABC/Smiley Guy Studios “One of the things that [ Black-ish creator] Kenya [Barris] has really stressed is the value of […]
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