Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
February 14 - 20, 2021 l 3
BY JAY BOBBIN
Kenan Thompson
OF ‘KENAN’ ON NBC
Since it first was announced a while ago,
“Kenan” went through a lengthy development
period. How was the creative process for you
on it?
It was a long process, from starting with trying to
find someone to settle in on an idea with, and me
and (executive producer) Jackie (Clarke) talked for
the first time over the summer like, I think, two years
ago. We both had a similar idea of what we thought
would be a good show that we haven’t seen before,
and what also maybe fit the tone of stuff that we had
... the positive-father-figure type of thing. We had an
opportunity to kind of sit down with it and flesh it out
even further, so it’s been a long road, but apparently
very necessary.
In “Kenan,” you’re playing a morning-show
host, and also a widower father. Was it always
the plan to blend those two aspects?
The family story was three different ideas from three
different teams of people. Our original pilot was the same idea, with me in a different profession
and a couple of different people in the cast. Then we pivoted to the morning-show profession,
which I think is a very similar energy that people kind of would expect because of my “SNL”
(“Saturday Night Live”) energy. And that’s where we’re at.
Especially given the times we’re in, are you looking at folding social issues into
“Kenan”?
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