


This was revealed in an ABC statement that read: "Groundbreaking comedy Black-ish will receive a deserving sendoff as it returns in midseason for its eighth and final run." This means the earliest the show is coming to the network is January 2022. This is because Black-ish's final season is being held until January 2022. When ABC released its fall 2021 line-up, The Bachelorette was in the Tuesday time-slot usually held by the show. ABCĮxactly when that eighth season will air, however, is uncertain. 'Black-ish' will end in 2022 with Season 8. "In this day and age it is rare to get to decide when your show should come to an end, and we are grateful along with ABC to be able to make this final season exactly what we'd hoped for-– and to do it with the entire and AMAZINGLY STELLAR cast coming back to close this chapter out with us the right way!" Creator Kenya Barris wrote on Instagram, "to ALL the people in the world I love, honor, respect and care for it is both exciting and bittersweet to share that black-ish has been RENEWED by ABC for it's EIGHTH. The eighth and final season of Black-ish was announced earlier in May. Though Mixed-ish is not returning, Season 8 of Black-ish is expected in 2022.

This means that ABC is ending its involvement with the -ish franchise, as the network has also canceled Mixed-ish after two seasons (though Grown-ish continues on Freeform). Black-ish is the latest show to be canceled by ABC, with the comedy set to get one last season on the network.
