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Freeform orders Season 2 of Yara Shahidi's 'grown-ish'

By Karen Butler   |   Jan. 19, 2018 at 6:18 AM
Yara Shahidi's sitcom "grown-ish" has been renewed for a second season. File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI Laurence Fishburne, Anthony Anderson, Jeff Meacham, Jenifer Lewis, Yara Shahidi, Miles Brown, Peter Mackenzie, Marsai Martin, Miles Brown, and Tracee Ellis Ross (L-R) accept the Outstanding Comedy Series award for "black-ish" onstage during the 49th NAACP Image Awards on January 15. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI

Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Freeform has renewed its black-ish spinoff grown-ish for a 20-episode, second season.

Starring Yara Shahidi as Zoey Johnson, the half-hour, college comedy tackles "current social issues and complexities facing both students and administrators," a network news release said.

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Zoey is the daughter of Anthony Anderson's Dre and Tracee Ellis Ross' Rainbow on ABC's black-ish, which is now in its fourth season.