#Living single season 3 year series#

Later in the series, RГ©gine became a costume assistant for the soap opera Palo Alto. In the first apartment, Khadijah James ( Queen Latifah), a hard-working editor and publisher of the fictional urban independent magazine Flavor, lived with her sweet but naive cousin Synclaire James ( Kim Coles), an aspiring actress who worked as Khadijah's receptionist and had an affinity for Troll dolls, and her childhood friend from East Orange, New Jersey, Regina 'RГ©gine' Hunter ( Kim Fields), an image-conscious boutique buyer who was on a constant search for a well-to-do man to spend her life (and his money) with.

#Living single season 3 year series#

The series focused on two different households in one brownstone, one shared by a trio of independent women and another shared by two male friends who had known each other since childhood while living in Cleveland, Ohio. Living Single centered on six people consisting of four women and two men living the single life in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. 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 it inspired, Friends.

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. Fox changed the show's name to Living Single a mere three weeks before its television debut.Дuring Living Single 's 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. Khadijah is an entrepreneur who started an urban-lifestyle magazine, much as Latifah is an entrepreneur who started her own 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. 'We Are Living Single', written and performed by Queen Latifah