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Fox has scheduled In the Flow with Affion Crockett, the half-hour sketch-comedy series hosted by and starring comedian Affion Crockett and executive produced by Jamie Foxx. The series, previously Untitled Jamie Foxx/Affion Crockett Project, will have a one-hour premiere on Sunday, Aug. 14, at 9 PM before moving to its regular Sunday 9:30 PM time slot the following week. In the Flow will also air reruns at midnight on Saturdays beginning Aug. 20. Fox originally picked up the project to series in early September with a 12-episode midseason order. In January, Fox announced that the sketch comedy was getting a preview after American Idol on March 31 and a premiere on June 9. Both the preview and the June launch date were subsequently scrapped while the show’s order was cut from 12 to 6 episodes. Described as being in the vein of In Living Color, In the Flow is a take on pop culture with spoofs of movie trailers, commercials, TV shows, music videos and celebrities. It features guest appearances by rapper/actor Snoop Dogg, Russell Simmons, singer Chris Brown, sports analyst Michael Strahan, actor Harry Shum Jr. (Glee), choreographer Lil’ C, actor/comedian JB Smoove, actor David Koechner (The Office) and dance crew X-Mob. The series is produced by Fox TV Studios, Foxx/King Entertainment and Tantamount Studios. Foxx, Todd Yasui, Marcus King, Jaime Rucker King, Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum and Mitch Hurwitz are executive producing, with Carl Jones co-executive producing. Crockett serves as a writer and producer.
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This show has #FAIL written all over it. When will these studios learn that show titles are brands? “In The Flow with Affion Crockett???” I mean, really? Yes, the quality of the content is most important, but you have to draw the audience before they’ll even look at it. …and who the hell is Affion Crockett?
Affion is a comedian from MTV/Nick Cannon’s Wild N Out, dummy. Just because you don’t know doesn’t mean others don’t.
I agree. “In The Flow”??? Sounds like a female hygiene product. And the order already cut to 6 from 12; that’s bad news.
Bad title.
I will watch anything that Carl Jones is a part of.
I won’t watch anything with that POS Chris Brown in it. Stop giving this woman abuser a platform!
Chris Brown is slated to be a guest performer, he’s not party to the production of the show.
Hes a comedian. Look him up on YouTube. He was also cast in the new pilot Home Game
If you believe in maximum exposure on the internet then you should study who has the greatest amount of hits on youtube. Affion Crockett is the new king of spoofs! He’s an urban Wierd Al Yankovich. This show should be the next big thing!
I’m not sure there are enough producers on this project to make good enough.
You might need to get a few more.
I know who he is. Just because u don’t know him doesn’t make him less relevant. You must really think your the only person in the world lol.
If only SNL had gotten him in time for Obama’s inauguration, Affion would have been a breakout star on the show. No offense to Fred Armisen, who is great at one on one with the camera characters, but his impressions do not work. Armisen being part white, latino, and asian probably made sense for internal SNL Obama casting at the time.
I loved In Living Color (the sketches, not the “fly girl” dancing bits with the unknown JLo which were annoying) and I’d be excited about this bad title and all, but is it true all the sketches will be current pop culture references? Really? Isn’t SNL doing that week after week? Bo-ring. And let’s face it, supremely lazy. Will ANYBODY be smart, insightful and talented enough to create completely new characters and situations ever again? Without relying on a talk-show or fake-ad format that is. Comedy is dead.
I’m not sure how current any of this will be considering all of the sketches were filmed December thru March.
I think the title could be changed but I am proud to have such a talented & artistic young black man/comedian put out another show. It is about time. We haven’t had anything since In Living Color, so I for one am looking forward to the premire. Congratulations Mr. Crockett & Mr. Foxx I am sure it will be funny & a HIT! Blessings…….
Anyone who got their start with Nick Cannon, I’m a little leery on.
Nick put guys like Kevin Hart, Katt Williams, Mikey Day, Taran Killam, and DeRay Davis on TV first. Not a bad track record
As someone who has seen multiple episodes, I can honestly say this show is going to be a huge hit. And piss off a lot of people
You will be honestly wrong. Gone in six. Not Affion’s fault. With all those producers, problems point to too many cooks in a rather small kitchen.
Stop tryin to remake In Living Color-it’s not possible. Flop
Affion Crockett is a talented young man and I’m sure if you watch the show with an open mind you will be entertained. Give it a chance before you form a negative opinion about what you think it will be.
And the title “In The Flow” is kinda Hip Hop so respect that!
Looks like a summer burn-off to me. Who’s watching network TV in August on a Sunday night?
Right, he must be the hottest new kid on the block, so hot that FOX is giving him a full 6 episodes before most likely canceling him. That’s if you know anything about the major networks “sink or swim” policy. Also, after asking around my office about this deal at FOX the only name people are familiar with is Jamie Foxx. We must have missed MTV’s groundbreaking hit show with that megastar Nick Cannon, wasn’t he supposed to be the next Will Smith? Anyway, in case the “urban” community didn’t know, networks aren’t in the business of developing “urban” programming anymore, they cater to the mainstream and they do so because that’s where the money is. The only reason why you see networks like FOX (and most recently NBC with J.J.’s “UnderCovers,” which failed miserably) green-lighting an “urban” project from time to time is simply good ol’ fashion Hollywood political correctness. They don’t care how talented he is, network TV just isn’t the place for Tyler Perry-esque programming. As a 30-something Jewish guy from Brooklyn, I would love nothing better than to see a hit show that features a person of color on network television. But if that’s going to happen, it’s going to have to be a mainstream project with broad appeal, not a “hip-hop” titled sketch show with the name of an broadly unknown YouTuber attached. …and yes, In Living Color is a classic and no, it’s brilliance simply cannot be replicated… ever!
@MarcDom So called “urban” shows are no different that mainstream shows. They like any other show need a good group of creative folk to make a good product. Networks don’t care who’s in it as long as it is making money. The problem is minority based shows on the major networks are few and far between. It’s ok if Undercovers failed. That’s not the problem. Now if all the networks decided not to make a new show featuring a minority because of Undercovers than that’s a problem.
Not to mention Undercovers was made by JJ (don’t call me Gerald Jr.) Abrams. He casted the show color-blind (whatever that means). His milquetoast spies could have been any color and it still would not have worked. The show as a whole was just not very good. It’s not good when a spy show is being called “boring.”
Talking about funny, the guy, DIX, who did the warm-up was HILARIOUS and should have his own show.
@MarcDom and all the other clowns with negative comments, Just because you don’t know about Affion, doesn’t mean he’s not talented. Affion is literally the HOTTEST thing in comedy right now.
You just wait and see.
Go Affion!!
I agree with @MarcDom, the broader mainstream audience just isn’t familiar with this guy. Casting an unfamiliar lead or leads usually only works with ensemble casts, on sitcoms or series’. The fact that FOX is giving a virtually unknown comedian a shot at his own show smells of a networks disingenuous effort to quiet the “lack of diversity” critics.
If they were serious about developing a longstanding “urban” sketch comedy series, they’d cast a well-known comedian to take the lead. Comedy Central was serious when they gave Dave Chappelle his own show, he was well known and very much accomplished. As a result, the show was a breakout hit and ultimately is a cult classic.
This seems to be nothing more than a Wanda Sykes redux, without the known name. Can you say “summer burnout.” I can hear the FOX execs now when questioned on diversity, “well it’s not like we didn’t try!”
Having seen some of the scripts, so much of this show is “white people are like this, black people are like that” humor, it gets old really quick. Stupid, insipid and lacking and real quality. Who knows, maybe the written word will translate better to the screen, but what I saw, unlikely. Too bad too, Affion Crockett really is a funny guy.
I am amazed when people give their opinions, not even having an idea of how much love and hard work goes into a show. Further more there are hardly any shows for blacks or latinos and a good one comes along and the people bash bash bash..Congrats to the Brother he must be doing something right he got a show and the haters didn’t
I totally agree with @BehindTheScenes, the racial stuff is so cheap and so easy and I’m over it. If this show turns out to be about playing one group against another I actually hope it fails. Yes, we all have our cultural variances, but at this point in our history I think we have more in common with each other than ever before. I hope they learn to start promoting diversity the right way, by highlighting our many similarities and not our differences.
Also, @Revealing, we don’t need a show for “Blacks” or “Latinos,” we need shows that features talented African-Americans and Latinos, Asian-Americans, etc., that cater to the broader audience. Noone is bashing anything, hell know one even knows this kid, it’s called having an opinion.
This is going to be great. We need to have some real comedy these days. With all these crazy sci-fi shows and vampire and stuip young crazy overly sex teenage shows is getting real tired. Good luck guys I will be tunning in.
I agree with you about there not enough shows for blacks or latinos; but unfortunately middle America is not ready for urban… Sad but true. I hope for only big things for the show, let’s just pray that America can get over the “normal” and get with the new!