{"id":2014586,"date":"2025-09-11T16:49:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2014586"},"modified":"2025-09-11T16:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:49:56","slug":"friends-caused-this-beloved-90s-series-to-be-canceled-after-just-1-season-actress-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/friends-caused-this-beloved-90s-series-to-be-canceled-after-just-1-season-actress-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Friends\u2019 Caused This Beloved \u201990s Series to Be Canceled After Just 1 Season, Actress Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Sister, Sister<\/em> hit the small screen just five months before <em>Friends<\/em> \u2014 and according to one of the show\u2019s stars, the NBC sitcom was the reason <em>Sister, Sister<\/em> was initially canceled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI remember us just killing it in the ratings and then having all that taken away,\u201d <strong>Tamera Mowry-Housley<\/strong> said during the HBO documentary <em>Seen &amp; Heard: The History of Black Television<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Sister, Sister <\/em>premiered on ABC in April 1994, but just 12 episodes in, the network canceled the show due to the massive wave <em>Friends<\/em> made when it premiered that September on NBC.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">\ufffd Tsuni \/ iPhoto Inc.\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe president of the network, I can remember calling him saying, \u2018How come we were canceled? What happened?\u2019\u201d Tamera, 47, continued. \u201cAnd I can remember <em>Friends<\/em> came about, and a lot of the networks wanted to, they were like, \u2018Wow, this show is a hit. How can we bring that to our network?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tamera starred alongside her twin sister, <strong>Tia Mowry<\/strong>, as twins separated at birth. Actors <strong>Tim Reid<\/strong> and <strong>Jack\u00e9e Harry<\/strong> played the girls\u2019 parents. The series ultimately found a new network in the then-new The WB, where it ran for five more seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe go from being on ABC to The WB. I remember my sister and I going, \u2018What the hell? What is that? The frog network?\u2019\u201d she continued. \u201cA fledgling network? I remember looking that up, going, what does \u2018fledgling\u2019 even mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister, Sister hit the small screen just five months before Friends \u2014 and according to one of the show\u2019s stars, the NBC sitcom was the reason Sister, Sister was initially canceled. \u201cI remember us just killing it in the ratings and then having all that taken away,\u201d Tamera Mowry-Housley said during the HBO documentary Seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2014587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[26742,369178,369179,369180],"class_list":["post-2014586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-friends","tag-sister","tag-tamera-mowry-housley","tag-tia-mowry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Friends-Caused-This-Beloved-90s-Series-to-Be-Canceled-After.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}