Netflix Orders ‘The Upshaws’ Comedy Series Starring Wanda Sykes & Mike Epps

Netflix has ordered The Upshaws, a new multi-camera family comedy series starring and executive produced by Wanda Sykes (Wanda Sykes: Not Normal) and Mike Epps (Dolemite Is My Name, Only One Mike). Sykes also will co-showrun with Regina Hicks (The L Word, Generations Q, Central Park, Insecure).

The Upshaws centers on a working-class African American family in Indiana struggling to make it work and make it right without the blueprints to do it.

Sykes, Epps and Hicks executive produce with Dan Spilo (Sunnyside) and Page Hurwitz (Wanda Sykes: Not Normal).

Sykes is a 2019 Emmy nominee for outstanding variety special and writing for a variety special for Wanda Sykes: Not Normal.

Sykes’ producing partner Hurwitz also is Emmy-nominated for Wanda Sykes: Not Normal.

Sykes premiered her Netflix comedy Wanda Sykes: Not Normal, her first for the internet TV network, in May. She also recurs on ABC’S Black-ish, for which received Emmy noms in both 2017 and 2018 for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

In 2012, Sykes teamed with veteran producer Hurwitz to form Push It Productions. The company was behind the successful revival of NBC comedy competition Last Comic Standing, and has since landed projects with ABC, Fox, NBC, BET, OWN, and TruTV, including the award-winning, Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious, the critically praised Talk Show The Game Show, and Unprotected Sets on Epix.

Epps will next be seen in Netflix’s feature Dolemite Is My Name and was recently on TV in roles in How High 2 and Star.

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