Norman Lear is credited as an executive producer on the single-cam series about a trans woman reuniting with her father in their Alabama hometown.

And that’s by design.Stand-up comedian George Wallace, who plays car wash owner Harry Slate, first imagined this affable father/daughter series as a riff on a classic Black sitcom.“I went to Norman Lear,

Clean Slate” has Cox as Desiree Slate, who returns to her Alabama birthplace after a decades-long absence to confront her carwash operator father Harry Slate (George Wallace) with her gender

Norman Lear was a force of nature in television. His progressive, boundary-breaking comedies—like All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, and One Day at a Time—were never afraid to embrace contemporary issues head-on.

Laverne Cox leads an appealing ensemble in the refreshingly upbeat, proudly queer comedy series "Clean Slate."