{"id":5539,"date":"2020-07-07T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2020-07-07T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T18:25:07","slug":"young-love-matthew-a-cherrys-hair-love-is-getting-its-own-tv-series-from-hbo-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/young-love-matthew-a-cherrys-hair-love-is-getting-its-own-tv-series-from-hbo-max\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Young Love&#8217;: Matthew A. Cherry&#8217;s &#8216;Hair Love&#8217; Is Getting Its Own TV Series From HBO Max"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5540\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5540\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5540 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hairlove.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hairlove.png 800w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hairlove-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hairlove-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/hairlove-390x220.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from &#8216;Hair Love&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>In June of this year, Matthew A. Cherry signed a major <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/hair-love-director-matthew-a-cherry-signs-first-look-deal-with-warner-bros-television\/\"><b>multi-year deal<\/b><\/a><b> with Warner Bros Television to develop comedies, dramas, and event series with the studio. Now, we\u2019ve been informed about the first series that will be part of this deal: <\/b><b><i>Young Love<\/i><\/b><b>.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Created by Cherry, <\/b><b><i>Young Love<\/i><\/b><b> is a 2D-animated series that features the characters from his 2019 Oscar-winning short film <\/b><b><i>Hair Love<\/i><\/b><b>.\u00a0 In <\/b><b><i>Young Love<\/i><\/b><b>, viewers will become far more acquainted with the delightful Young family, who we only briefly met in the short film. It focuses on Black millennial parents Stephen and Angela, their daughter Zuri, and her pet cat Rocky. We\u2019ll watch as they adapt to life\u2019s typical challenges of juggling their careers, marriage, and parenthood, while also navigating current social issues and multi-generational dynamics.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>HBO Max will be the distributor of the project, and has ordered a 12-episode season. Carl Jones, most prominently known for his production and voiceover work on <\/b><b><i>The Boondocks<\/i><\/b><b>, will serve alongside Cherry as a showrunner. Monica A. Young, producer of Hair Love, will executive produce the series with Carl Reed and David Steward II.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cI am beyond excited to continue telling the story of Stephen, Angela and Zuri and further explore the family dynamics of a young Black millennial family we established in our short film Hair Love as an animated series,\u201d Cherry told <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/07\/hbo-max-animated-series-young-love-hair-love-matthew-a-cherry-1202979431\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Deadline<\/b><\/a><b>. \u201cCouldn\u2019t ask for better partners in Sony Pictures Animation and HBO Max in helping us get<\/b><b><i> Young Love<\/i><\/b><b> out to the world.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June of this year, Matthew A. Cherry signed a major multi-year deal with Warner Bros Television to develop comedies, dramas, and event series with the studio. Now, we\u2019ve been informed about the first series that will be part of this deal: Young Love.\u00a0 Created by Cherry, Young Love is a 2D-animated series that features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[31,934,946,51,1004],"class_list":["post-5539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-featured","tag-hair-love","tag-matthew-a-cherry","tag-trending","tag-young-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}