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Article: 'Grown Ups': Why Can't We Be 'Friends'?
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 23, 1999
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"Grown Ups" might be what the NAACP intended when it urged
television executives to put more black folks in prime time. Let's
be very clear: It's no "Seinfeld," but it's not "Homeboys From Outer
Space" either.
The show, premiering tonight at 8:30 on Channel 20, is the latest
offering from UPN. That's the station hitherto known as YOU People's
Network because it's home to many of the worst black shows on
television.
The series is a coming-of-age comedy that manages to strike all
the right Generation Y themes. It's racially diverse, sexually edgy.
It has a funky soundtrack, and itty-bitty 23-year-old "Why are we
here?" existentialism.
Jaleel White stars as the young professional J. Calvin ...