Netflix cancels Jamie Foxx's sitcom about embarrassing his daughter
The streamer has now granted the implied request in Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!'s title
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Netflix, in its merciful benevolence, has finally granted the desperate, exclamation-point-capped pleas of Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! Which is to say that the streaming giant has pulled the plug on the single-season sitcom, which starred Genuine Movie Star and Certified Oscar Winner Jamie Foxx, returning to the TV comedy roots that helped jump-start his career. Per Deadline, the series was based on Foxx’s own relationship with his daughter, Corinne; both Foxxes produced on the series, which co-starred Kyla-Drew as the embarrassed daughter-proxy in question.
Netflix aired all eight of Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!’s extant episodes—which, we feel perversely motivated to note, are all named things like “#YeezysAndShrimp” and “#NipplesOrNuts”—back in April of 2021. Said episodes introduced the world to Brian Dixon, a perfectly relatable cosmetics company owner who just happens to look and sound a great deal like Certified Oscar Winner Jamie Foxx. (Not that Foxx confined himself to this single role; he also played a series of one-off characters with names like Rev. Sweet Tea and Cadillac Calvin.) The series co-starred sitcom royalty David Alan Grier as Foxx’s father, plus Porscha Coleman, Jonathan Kite, and Heather Hemmens.
News of the cancellation comes during a general trimming of Netflix’s schedule, which also saw it shuffle shows like Jupiter’s Legacy and Grand Army off the books. It also serves as a data point for the streamer’s ongoing issues with the family sitcom format; outside of a few hits like Full House and The Ranch, situation comedies about family life tend to have a pretty short shelf-life on the service, even when they’ve got Jamie Foxx throwing his considerable star-power at them. You can read our (not especially positive) review of Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!’s first (and now only) season right here.
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The House was Fuller.
Next time maybe do a show like House or hire Bryan Fuller.
No, clearly we need a version of Full House where Bryan Fuller is the showrunner and Hugh Laurie plays the kids’ grandpa.
With Mads Mikkelsen as the wacky neighbor.
The wacky testicle-beating neighbor.
I’ll bet Hugh Laurie does a mean Popeye impression.
You guys are all joking but I really want this to be a thing. Of course, being a Bryan Fuller series, either it’ll get cancelled or Fuller will walk away.
A white show with a white cast like there isnt enough of those on tv
Well, *I* sure need that now.
MwFuller, that is. Ha! Yeah!
The Fall of the House of Fuller
First they cancelled $h*! My Dad Says, now this. That doesn’t bode well for the Dad Cinematic Universe.
They already rebooted that with Surviving Jack and failed again.
Just in time for Father’s Day!
David Alan Grier played his dad? They’re like 10 years apart.
I just hope DAG got paid well for this. He’s a damn national treasure.
He’s getting a lot of mileage out of that big, white beard.
As he should.
Sally Field played Tom Hanks’s lover in “Punchline”, then only 6 years later she played his mother in “Forrest Gump”. She is only 10 years older than him.
Not quite the same – at the start of the film Forrest is only about seven years old, and she’s still playing his mother then. By the time he’s played by Tom Hanks they’ve made her up to be a lot older. So it’s not like they’re pretending Sally Field is old enough to be Tom Hanks’ mother.
If you ain’t fathering kids at the age of 10 you’re just not living. *spits tobacco into cup*
Perhaps you’d enjoy this video where he addresses that for us. https://www.avclub.com/david-alan-grier-reunited-with-in-living-color-pal-jami-1846669692
In “Blue Bloods”, Len Cariou (81) plays Tom Selleck’s (76) dad.
Stray observations:1) If you feel you need exclamation marks and hashtags for show titles, you may have a problem.2) I know I can’t be the only person who, before reading an article about Certified Oscar Winner Jamie Foxx, thought he was looking at a picture of Katt Williams.
Exception: Airplane!
“Certified Oscar Winner Jamie Foxx, I speak jive!”
Ahhh, damn, that one glided right past me… Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!— is the exception to all known cinematic rules.
Or Andre 3000
But what does this mean for The Crew and Country Comfort?!
It also serves as a data point for the streamer’s ongoing issues with the family sitcom format
Meanwhile at Netflix HQ:*creator finishes pitch*“This sounds good but can we maybe work in a murder somewhere?”
I didn’t even know that this show existed, which goes to show just how good Netflix is at promoting their content.
You could also log into Netflix and click on “New”. Welcome to 2021.
They actually promoted the shttt out of this show! I am actually surprised this got canned. Their cheap sitcom shows tend to get more than one or two seasons before anyone actually notices… probably foxx was asking for too much money like Elba with that weird dj show.
Netflix is the monkey’s paw of production money. They’ll give ya whatever you want, kid, but nobody will ever see it!
“It’s a sitcom with Jamie Foxx, and he has a daughter, and his best friend is David Allen Greer, and he has a hook hand, a tattoo shaped like Italy on his left armpit and you talkin’ ‘bout muscle, he’s got muscle but NOBODY EVER SEES IT!”- Harry De Bauld Explains Sitcoms
Jamie Foxx and his daughter did a puff piece interview for CBS a few months ago promoting this show and the interviewer asked her “how much is it[the show] true, because your dad on it is kinda corny?” That got a laugh out of me.
This sounded so bad I hadn’t thought it made past pilot
This sounded so bad I thought Netflix had gone into receivership, because it’s certainly bankrupt of ideas.
This sounded so bad I thought it would color me.
Jamie Foxx seems to have the most incomprehensible attitude toward his own career.
Was he like, “I only do these commercially and critically successful projects so that I can do my real passion projects of hosting variety shows, advertising online gambling and making crappy sitcoms”?
Jamie Foxx watching Jonah Hill’s career the last 10 years: “WTF is he doing?”
You see, with Jamie Foxx it’s… How should I phrase it? Oh yea..it’s about his passion. It’s about what he feels. And what makes him feel like him, is having a pair of fly and affordable frames. With the right pair of frames, he can celebrate his style and his outlook*vomits in mouth a little*
I watched about 1.5 episodes of this. It was not good.
I’m embarrassed this even made it out of development, and I’m not related to Jamie Foxx.
It sounds like a one-joke concept and they already told the joke.
I didn’t even know this existed.
Hey William,
Write an article about a show you haven’t seen without telling me you haven’t seen it.
Loved when you started jazzing on the imdb cast list, with the hyperlink to an actual black person’s review of the thing you didn’t see, even as you used the royal “we” to assimilate their work.
Anyway, this is quality work and deserves the highest AV Club grade possible.
So like a C+ for drama, A+ for Rupaul’s Drag Race.
I didn’t get the show. It wasnt very funny to me and so far removed from what Foxx has become in his acting career that iot screams “try hard” as he imitates his younger self.
The Upshaws, however, could stand to have at least 2 more seasons. I describe it as an immensely truer to it’s title “Modern Family”.
Jammie Foxx is like Will Smith if they are the sole stars of the show it is going to be terrible. After Earth I am looking at you. If they got a Co-Star to limit their comedy for equal screen time things become great. Men in Black, Django. It is all about control. Very few people are strong enough to carry it by them selves like Martin Lawrence, Morgan Freeman.Morgan Freeman is just legendary who carries so many movies he is in like, Lean on Me.
I want my Cobra Kai Season 4, Netflix!
I guess it tracks when you remember he was well into his 20s when he made the original films. He’s Dorian Gray and we are all just his portraits, and we always have been.
True like those guys probably had rough lives of smoking, drugs, drinking, criminal activity. It takes a toll.
Last I checked, it was coming in December.
I watched a handful of these and quite enjoyed them. It was dated and desperately uncool, but so am I.
I watched one episode because Jackée was in it. All I can say is, at least Jackée was in it.
Happy Father’s Day!
“In Living Color”, having loved it in the 90’s as a kid- is racist and all the other problematics as fuck… for reals. And actually, the Wayans and the rest aren’t really that funny, if you look at their comedic work. Fuck ‘em.
I love a sitcom, but it just looks unfunny.