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It's the end of the road for The Upshaws, as the series now has an endgame in mind. Ahead of the arrival of Part 6 in early 2025, it's been announced that Netflix has renewed the series for an additional, final season.

Part 7 of The Upshaws, which will consist of 12 episodes, will serve as the final season of the show. The series first premiered on Netflix in 2021, and the second and third seasons will broken up into "parts," with five of them released up to this point. Part 6 is in the works for an early 2025 release, and now fans will head into it knowing it's the penultimate batch of episodes. The show's co-creators and co-showrunners, Regina Hicks and Wanda Sykes, have addressed how grateful they are that Netflix gave them one more renewal to allow them to properly end the story.

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Exclusive: The Upshaws will be coming to an end. Netflix has picked up a 12-episode final installment of the blue-collar multi-camera comedy starring Mike Epps, Kim Fields and Wanda Sykes.

The streamer has been releasing (and renewing) multi-cam comedy series in parts, so the pickup is for Part 7 of The Upshaws, which Netflix calls a final season.

The six-episode Part 5 of The Upshaws premiered in Apil, with the 10-episode Part 6, the sitcom’s penultimate run, slated to debut in early 2025.

After the 10-episode first season, seasons 2 and 3 of The Upshaws were released in two parts each, consisting of eight and six episodes, respectively. They were followed by a 10-episode Part 6 and now 12-episode Part 7.

The Upshaws will wrap with respectable 60 episodes, the third longest run for a Netflix original multi-cam comedy behind The Ranch (80) and Fuller House (75).

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Another season of “The Upshaws” is coming to Netflix, Variety has confirmed. Production on the 10-episode season is scheduled to start in 2024.

As with Season 2, Season 3 was also split into two parts with the first eight episodes arriving on streamer on Aug. 17. The six episode Part 5 is slated to premiere in Spring 2024.

Starring Mike Epps, the series follows Bennie Upshaw (Epps), “the head of a Black working class family in Indianapolis, is a charming, well-intentioned mechanic and lifelong mess just trying his best to step up and care for his family — wife Regina (Kim Fields), their two young daughters and firstborn son (Jermelle Simon), the teenage son (Diamond Lyons) he fathered with another woman (Gabrielle Dennis) — and tolerate his sardonic sister-in-law (Wanda Sykes), all without a blueprint for success. But the Upshaws are determined to make it work, and make it to the next level, together. In this upcoming part,...

Exclusive: Netflix has picked up another installment of its popular multi-camera comedy series The Upshaws. The blue-collar sitcom created by Regina Hicks and Wanda Sykes has been renewed for a 10-episode fourth season.

After the 10-episode first season, Seasons 2 and 3 of The Upshaws have been released in two parts — of eight and six episodes each, respectively — so the renewal is for Part 6 of the series, as officially referred to by Netflix.

Production on the 10-episode new season, which will be released in one batch, will begin next year. The six-episode Part 5 of The Upshaws (second half of Season 3), is slated to premiere in spring 2024.

Somewhat flying under the radar, The Upshaws has been a sturdy performer for Netflix in a genre — multi-camera sitcom — that has been challenging for streamers. With the renewal, The Upshaws is tying The Ranch as the second-longest-running original multi-camera comedy on Netflix in number of seasons,...

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Director: Dome Karukoski

Writer: Aleksi Bardi, Mark Alton Brown

Finnish filmmaker Dome Karukoski has been steadily making features since his 2005 debut Beauty and the Bastard.

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In what reads like a hilariously grand idea, I've learned that veteran actress Jenifer Lewis, will star in and executive produce Ventura Boulevard, which Debbie Allen (also an industry veteran) is attached to direct, from a script penned by Mark Alton Brown and Dee Laduke, the same writing team behind Lewis' cult classic, Jackie’s Back! - the 1999 comedy directed by Robert Townsend, which chronicles the life and career of an R&B diva, who, after several years of toiling away in obscurity, decides to organize a comeback.Ventura Boulevard is described as a darkly comedic homage to the 1950 Billy Wilder classic Sunset Boulevard, starring Lewis as a...

Veteran star of stage and screen, Jenifer Lewis (most recently seen as the over-protective mother in Think Like A Man), is starring in a new comedy web series, along with Shangela (the breakout star from the TV series RuPaul’s Drag Race), titled Jenifer Lewis and Shangela. The scripted series is directed by Emmy-winning producer, writer and director Mary Lou Belli (she's helmed episodes of Girlfriends, The Game and Reed Between The Lines), from scripts by the writing team of Mark Alton Brown & Dee Laduke (Girlfriends, Designing Women), as well as Deborah Dean Davis (It Takes Two) and Margaret Oberman (Saturday Night Live). ...

HollywoodNews.com: Executive Producer Spike Jones, Jr. and Talent Producer Carole Propp have confirmed a top line-up of Hollywood talent set to present honors at the 2012 Writers Guild Awards L.A. ceremony coming up on Sunday, February 19, at the Hollywood Palladium. This year’s West Coast show will feature writers, actors, and directors who’ve collaborated to create memorable films, television series, videogames, new media, and other written programs.

In addition to previously announced 2012 WGA Hollywood show co-hosts Zooey Deschanel (New Girl) and Joel McHale (Community, The Soup), this year’s Writers Guild Awards presenters will include: Parks & Recreation star Amy Poehler with Parks & Recreation co-creator Michael Schur, Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston with Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, 2 Broke Girls star Kat Denning with 2 Broke Girls co-creator Michael Patrick King, Web Therapy star/co-creator Lisa Kudrow with Web Therapy co-creator Don Roos, actor-comic Patton Oswalt (Young Adult) with director-screenwriter...

Los Angeles – The Writers Guild of America, West’s nominating committees have announced the initial list of candidates for the 2011 Wgaw Officers and Board of Directors election. The officer candidates are as follows: President – Patric M. Verrone, Christopher Keyser; Vice President – Howard A. Rodman, John Aboud; Secretary-Treasurer – David N. Weiss (inc.), Carl Gottlieb. There are 17 candidates nominated to run for eight open seats on the Wgaw’s Board of Directors as follows: Anthony Sparks, Dan Wilcox (inc.), Michael Oates Palmer, Thania St. John, Ari B. Rubin, Nelson Soler, Billy Ray (inc.), Linda Burstyn (inc.), Mark Alton Brown, David S. Goyer, Barbara E. Nance, Alfredo Barrios, Jr., John Brancato, Ian Deitchman (inc.), Nell Scovell, Jay Kogen, Carleton Eastlake (inc.). Note to editors: Wgaw internal rules require candidates to be announced in an order determined by lot; (inc.) denotes an incumbent candidate. In addition to the candidates selected by the nominating committees,...

Here's a spotlight on some of the interesting and/or noteworthy projects that were recently added to IMDbPro's database of development titles:

The Comedian – Robert De Niro stars as an aging insult comic in this project written by producer Art Linson. Sean Penn is rumored to be considering this as a possible directing gig.

Myth – Fox's big sci-fi action flick got a lot of buzz this week when talk of an Avatar reunion between James Cameron and Sam Worthington began circulating. No deals yet, but it's a safe bet Avatar 2 will be their next project together.

Pitchfork – Named after the snarky, hipster music site, this dramatic thriller from the Duplass brothers centers on a grieving mother of an indie rocker who seeks revenge on a bitter blogger posting nasty things about her son.

B.B. King and I – Bunk gets his blues on in this true story written by Michael Zanetis & Melora Donoghue. Wendell Pierce (The Wire) portrays the titular legendary guitarist who befriends a young entrepreneur played by Patrick Fugit. Michael Schroder directs and produces.

Mountainheart – Happy-Go-Lucky's Sally Hawkins is set to co-star opposite Paul Schneider, Peter Krause and Miranda Richardson in this indie comedy from Girlfriends writers Dee LaDuke and Mark Alton Brown described as a woman's quirky journey to empowerment.

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