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Six of black-ish's ten nearest neighbors are actors, and the scores spanning the set — from Anthony Anderson at 0.98 down to Regina King at 0.98 — compress into a narrow band of roughly 0.004, the defining signature of a flat-shape audience.
Similarity here measures how closely two entities' audience compositions resemble each other; a score near 0.98 across all ten positions means the audience shape is consistent and cohesive rather than pulled toward any single pole. The actor cluster includes Niecy Nash (0.98), Jada Pinkett Smith (0.98), Gabrielle Union (0.98), and Sanaa Lathan (0.98). Two musicians round out the set — Common (0.98) and Erykah Badoula (0.98) — alongside lifestyle figure Kimora Lee Simmons (0.98). The only other TV show in the top 10 is Power at 0.98, making it the lone same-kind neighbor in the set. No other TV shows appear in the top 10.
What the shape reveals is an audience defined less by the TV-show format and more by a specific constellation of actors and musicians — a tight, coherent community whose attention is distributed evenly across that cluster rather than anchored to any single figure.
