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Cable's hot show? Try 'The Golden Girls'
Lifetime reruns reaching whole new audience
Monday, June 30, 2003 Posted: 10:47 AM EDT (1447 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Four wisecracking women who love to talk about sex
star in one of television's hottest shows -- but it's not what you're thinking. Forget "Sex and the City." The Lifetime network has a hit on its hands with "The Golden Girls."
The show airs seven times each weekday on the cable network, and this
month's retrospective, "The Golden Girls: Their Greatest Memories," was the highest-rated special in Lifetime's 19-year history. The show with four gray-haired ladies is an unexpected hit among young women.
"I think it's amazing," said actress Betty White, who starred as the
naive Rose Nylund in the series, which aired on NBC from 1985 to 1992. Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty co-starred.
When she's out now, White said, she's recognized more for her role in
"The Golden Girls" than for the beloved "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," where she played WJM-TV's happy homemaker.
"The Golden Girls" is the most popular sitcom rerun on cable
television after "Seinfeld" and "Friends." It's even watched more now than "The Cosby Show," considered the quintessential 1980s sitcom.
"It's going to be rerun 50 years from now, I guarantee you," said Tim
Brooks, Lifetime's research director and a television historian. "It's a show that isn't specific to its time and is very much about people."
Lifetime began airing "The Golden Girls" in 1997 and it was popular
from the start, although attention from the reunion has given it a boost lately. Lifetime estimates some 13 million people per week watch it. Besides the seven weekday airings, Lifetime shows it twice on Saturday. On Sundays, the ladies rest.
Lifetime was somewhat surprised to find its 11p.m. ET airing is
watched by as many women aged 18 to 34 as are watching MTV at that hour, Brooks said. More than a quarter of the mail Lifetime gets about the series is from college students, he said. That's probably because the characters on the show had an attitude toward life that was very young, Brooks said.
"They didn't care about what people thought," he said. "They were
sexually active and were not afraid to talk about it. They may have been mature women, but they were 20-year-olds in 50-year-old bodies."
While the characters were saucy, they usually weren't mean, he said.
White said the show's longevity is a tribute to its fine writers. And
the characters may provide something of a surrogate family to viewers, she said.
"A lot of households now don't have grandmothers," she said. "I think
they get a kick out of the fact that we're still viable." White still sees McClanahan and Arthur or chats with them regularly.
Getty, unfortunately, was unable to participate in the reunion special.
True to "The Golden Girls" spirit, the veteran actress scoffs at the
idea of retiring. "They'll have to carry me out feet first," White said. "That's when I'll retire."
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We're a revived phenomenon, girls. hehehehe
Side Bar: When you submit a journal entry from a different computer, does it NOT show up on your regular journaling computer under "recent"??? The post I made from my parents house on Saturday seems to have disappeared when I bring up the page, yet if i go to friends or someone elses journal, and come back, it's there? Is that just a funky thing I have going with this lousy contraption or do you all always post entries from the same computer all the time??
I seriously need my own Nick Burns, NOW.
PS2: How do you like, italic and bold on here?? And Liz, I don't think you answered my question about making peoples names into those links with the little head next to em. Oh yeah, Im so technical, ain't I?
Another side note: just .4 from 20lbs......the only highlight of the day..GO ME!!!
Lifetime reruns reaching whole new audience
Monday, June 30, 2003 Posted: 10:47 AM EDT (1447 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Four wisecracking women who love to talk about sex
star in one of television's hottest shows -- but it's not what you're thinking. Forget "Sex and the City." The Lifetime network has a hit on its hands with "The Golden Girls."
The show airs seven times each weekday on the cable network, and this
month's retrospective, "The Golden Girls: Their Greatest Memories," was the highest-rated special in Lifetime's 19-year history. The show with four gray-haired ladies is an unexpected hit among young women.
"I think it's amazing," said actress Betty White, who starred as the
naive Rose Nylund in the series, which aired on NBC from 1985 to 1992. Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty co-starred.
When she's out now, White said, she's recognized more for her role in
"The Golden Girls" than for the beloved "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," where she played WJM-TV's happy homemaker.
"The Golden Girls" is the most popular sitcom rerun on cable
television after "Seinfeld" and "Friends." It's even watched more now than "The Cosby Show," considered the quintessential 1980s sitcom.
"It's going to be rerun 50 years from now, I guarantee you," said Tim
Brooks, Lifetime's research director and a television historian. "It's a show that isn't specific to its time and is very much about people."
Lifetime began airing "The Golden Girls" in 1997 and it was popular
from the start, although attention from the reunion has given it a boost lately. Lifetime estimates some 13 million people per week watch it. Besides the seven weekday airings, Lifetime shows it twice on Saturday. On Sundays, the ladies rest.
Lifetime was somewhat surprised to find its 11p.m. ET airing is
watched by as many women aged 18 to 34 as are watching MTV at that hour, Brooks said. More than a quarter of the mail Lifetime gets about the series is from college students, he said. That's probably because the characters on the show had an attitude toward life that was very young, Brooks said.
"They didn't care about what people thought," he said. "They were
sexually active and were not afraid to talk about it. They may have been mature women, but they were 20-year-olds in 50-year-old bodies."
While the characters were saucy, they usually weren't mean, he said.
White said the show's longevity is a tribute to its fine writers. And
the characters may provide something of a surrogate family to viewers, she said.
"A lot of households now don't have grandmothers," she said. "I think
they get a kick out of the fact that we're still viable." White still sees McClanahan and Arthur or chats with them regularly.
Getty, unfortunately, was unable to participate in the reunion special.
True to "The Golden Girls" spirit, the veteran actress scoffs at the
idea of retiring. "They'll have to carry me out feet first," White said. "That's when I'll retire."
**********************************************************
We're a revived phenomenon, girls. hehehehe
Side Bar: When you submit a journal entry from a different computer, does it NOT show up on your regular journaling computer under "recent"??? The post I made from my parents house on Saturday seems to have disappeared when I bring up the page, yet if i go to friends or someone elses journal, and come back, it's there? Is that just a funky thing I have going with this lousy contraption or do you all always post entries from the same computer all the time??
I seriously need my own Nick Burns, NOW.
PS2: How do you like, italic and bold on here?? And Liz, I don't think you answered my question about making peoples names into those links with the little head next to em. Oh yeah, Im so technical, ain't I?
Another side note: just .4 from 20lbs......the only highlight of the day..GO ME!!!