> “I remember us just killing it in the ratings and then having all that taken away,” Mowry-Housley says of Sister Sister, which ranked at a very respectable No. 33 in the Nielsen ratings during its first season on ABC. “The president of the network, I can remember calling him saying, ‘How come we were canceled? What happened?’ ”
> So what did happen?
> “And I can remember Friends came about, and a lot of the networks wanted to, they were like, ‘Wow, this show is a hit. How can we bring that to our network?’ ” Mowry-Housley explains. “So we go from being on ABC to the WB. I remember my sister and I going, ‘What the hell? What is that? What is the frog network?’ A fledgeling network? I remember looking that up, going, what does ‘fledgeling’ even mean.”
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It’s weird cuz they used to show these American sitcoms on Nickelodeon in the UK, so I assumed they were kids shows.
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> “I remember us just killing it in the ratings and then having all that taken away,” Mowry-Housley says of Sister Sister, which ranked at a very respectable No. 33 in the Nielsen ratings during its first season on ABC. “The president of the network, I can remember calling him saying, ‘How come we were canceled? What happened?’ ”
> So what did happen?
> “And I can remember Friends came about, and a lot of the networks wanted to, they were like, ‘Wow, this show is a hit. How can we bring that to our network?’ ” Mowry-Housley explains. “So we go from being on ABC to the WB. I remember my sister and I going, ‘What the hell? What is that? What is the frog network?’ A fledgeling network? I remember looking that up, going, what does ‘fledgeling’ even mean.”
It’s weird cuz they used to show these American sitcoms on Nickelodeon in the UK, so I assumed they were kids shows.