Netflix Adding Beloved Late Comedian’s Sitcom in January

The Bernie Mac Show is coming back to Netflix. The streaming giant made the announcement in a post to X, formerly Twitter, revealing beginning January 1, old and new fans can behind streaming all five seasons of the FOX comedy series. 

Created by Larry Wilmore, the show premiered in, with the final season airing in 2006. The series chronicled comedian Bernie Mac and his fictional wife Wanda raising his sister’s three kids: Jordan, Vanessa, and Bryana – due to their mother’s struggles with drug addiction. Most of the storylines on the show were based on Mac’s own standup routines. 

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Reports of cancellation began surfacing in 2005, despite the show’s initial success. The previous year, Mac had been sick with double pneumonia. A report from the LA Times in 2005 noted that as the show entered its fifth season, it was the lowest-ranked live-action series

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