did not promote Living Single nearly as much as it did Friends. Show creator Yvette Lee Bowser was disappointed that Warner Bros. Living Single featured successful Black characters including an attorney, a stockbroker, and a business owner, in contrast to Friends, which featured white characters including a waitress, a folk singer, and an unemployed actor. Newspaper critics contrasted Living Single with the NBC sitcom Friends which had a similar premise. Throughout its run, Living Single became one of the most popular African-American sitcoms of its era, ranking among the top five in African-American ratings in all five seasons. Reception ĭuring Living Single 's the first season, it consistently garnered higher ratings than Martin, which aired in the time slot immediately before it on Thursday nights, and it quickly became the fourth highest-rated show aired on Fox.
Fox changed the show's name to Living Single three weeks before its television debut. Khadijah is an entrepreneur who started an urban-lifestyle magazine, much as Latifah is an entrepreneur who started her hip-hop record label. The character of Khadijah was created for Queen Latifah. In March 1993, Fox announced that Queen Latifah and Coles would star in a comedy sitcom called My Girls, about roommates in New York City. Queen Latifah and Kim Coles both had development deals with Fox.
LIVING SINGLE SEASON 3 EPISODE 27 IMDB PROFESSIONAL
The show centered on the lives of six friends who shared personal and professional experiences while living in a Brooklyn brownstone.
Living Single is an American television sitcom created by Yvette Lee Bowser that aired for five seasons on the Fox network from August 22, 1993, to January 1, 1998. "We Are Living Single", written and performed by Queen Latifah
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