In 2014 ABC struck ratings gold when it welcomed the show ‘Black-ish’ to its roster.
Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)In 2017, the show’s favourable brand runs the risk of being sullied if it doesn’t rectify an issue it may have caused by “borrowing” an idea created by a woman on social media.
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Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)ABC announced it was to build the show’s first spin-off named ‘College-ish’ on May 19th.
Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)What happened next will stun you.
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Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)— sage (@TAMARAJUANA) August 2, 2017
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Enraged by the potential theft, social media weighed in with…
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Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)where is your check girl pic.twitter.com/WbBGk90B8Z
Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)— mean uh (@minajaytay) August 2, 2017
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Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)This needs to be your mood sis pic.twitter.com/g8YPFrAuyt
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Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)— ? Galore. (@AKdaGemini) August 3, 2017
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Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)@offbeatorbit Grown-ish is SO much better, they owe you a check for sure
Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)— kesia alexandra (@loveandtrouble_) August 3, 2017
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Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)— hoesiah ✖️ (@JW_OVOXO) August 3, 2017
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Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)Fourth picture shoulda been a pic of your check. They're playing games and I don't like it, not one bit ?
Video In-Article Ad (Desktop)— The Lady (@KnownasBlue) August 3, 2017
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Ain’t that some ish lol
Lol twitter is so corny. If delusions of grandeur ever were to take physical form, it’s twitter lol.
Right tho!!! Lmao
Chances are the execs at ABC had already pitched the title and decided to make a change. It’s not a difficult word or phrase to conceptualize. I think “College-ish” sounds bad, but it’s more focused than “Grown-ish” which could mean anything.
Umm its not like the idea is all that ground breaking. And TV shows change ideas, casts, story lines, scripts, etc all the time before we ever see the pilot. We even see cast members change after the pilot airs and have new roles in peoples place. TV show hope and faith had 1 kid play the son for the pilot and a new kid for the rest of the series.
This is a reach