Living Single (TV series)
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Season 1 DVD cover
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| Created by | Yvette Lee Bowser |
| Starring |
Queen Latifah Kim Coles Erika Alexander T.C. Carson John Henton Mel Jackson Kim Fields |
| Opening theme | "We Are Living Single", written and performed by Queen Latifah |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 118 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Yvette Lee Bowser (entire run) Roger S.H. Schulman |
| Location(s) |
Warner Bros. Studios, Hollywood, California |
| Camera setup | Videotape; Multi-camera |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) | SisterLee Productions (1994-1998) (seasons 2-5) Warner Bros. Television |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
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| Original network | Fox |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Original release | August 22, 1993 – January 1, 1998 |
Living Single is an American television sitcom that aired for five seasons on the Fox network from August 22, 1993 to January 1, 1998. The show centered on the lives of six friends who share personal and professional experiences while living in a Brooklyn brownstone.
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. The series was produced by Yvette Lee Bowser's company, Sister Lee, in association with Warner Bros. Television. In contrast to the popularity of NBC's "Must See TV"—first on Sunday nights and then later on Thursday nights in the 1990s—many African-American and Latino viewers flocked to Fox. For the 1993–94 season, Living Single aired on Sunday nights between Martin and Married... with Children, and then on Thursday nights from 1994 to 1998.
Living Single centered on six people consisting of four women and two men living the single life in the heart of Brooklyn, New York.
The series focused on two different households in one brownstone, one shared by a trio of independent women and another shared by a pair of male friends who have known each other since they spent their youth in Cleveland, Ohio. In the first apartment, Khadijah James (Queen Latifah), a hard-working editor and publisher of the fictional urban independent monthly Flavor, lived with her sweet, but naive cousin, Synclaire James (Kim Coles), an aspiring actress who worked as Khadijah's receptionist and has an affinity for Troll dolls; and her childhood friend from East Orange, New Jersey, Regina "Régine" Hunter (Kim Fields), an image-conscious, boutique buyer who was in a constant search for a well-to-do man to spend her life with (and spend his money). Later in the series, Régine became a costume assistant for the soap opera Palo Alto. When the show was canceled, she became a wedding planner and left the apartment to move in with her fiancé, Dexter Knight (Don Franklin). Maxine "Max" Shaw (Erika Alexander), a sharp-tongued attorney and Khadijah's best friend from their college days at Howard University, frequently stopped by to share her unique insights, keep them entertained by sharing her day, to make sure that the girls' refrigerator isn't overstocked, and to start trouble with Kyle.
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