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Atlanta-lensed ‘Johnson’ returns for second season
Go behind the scenes of ‘Johnson’s’ second season
The record-breaking Bounce TV hit ‘Johnson’ returns for a second season on Sunday. The present is filmed proper right here in Atlanta, and Paul Milliken stopped by the set to meet up with its stars.
ATLANTA – The record-breaking Bounce TV hit “Johnson” returns for a second season this Sunday, and solid members say the “stakes are raised” for the present’s quartet of lead characters.
“Johnson” facilities on 4 lifelong buddies who share the identical final title — Johnson, in fact — and the problems they face of their each day lives.
“The thought got here from having buddies like this in my very own life,” says star and creator Deji LaRay. “You already know, seeing a few of my greatest buddies who’re going by means of sure conditions that all of us expertise. And I believed it was necessary to point out us on tv. As a result of I did not see us represented in the way in which that I reside my life each day. It was a possibility to take management of our narrative, which hasn’t been carried out with Black males the way in which that it ought to.”
“Johnson” is filmed right here in Atlanta, and instantly gained an viewers on Bounce TV, setting viewership data for the community.
Says co-star Thomas Q. Jones, “To have the success out the gate like that, to interrupt some data for the community – Bounce TV – and for individuals to actually resonate with the content material may be very particular and lets us know that we had been making the precise choices.”
The present’s second season premieres Sunday, July 10 at 8 p.m. on Bounce TV. To listen to extra from the present’s stars, click on the video participant on this article.