Sister, Sister<\/em> hit the small screen just five months before Friends<\/em> \u2014 and according to one of the show\u2019s stars, the NBC sitcom was the reason Sister, Sister<\/em> was initially canceled.<\/p>\n \u201cI remember us just killing it in the ratings and then having all that taken away,\u201d Tamera Mowry-Housley<\/strong> said during the HBO documentary Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television<\/em>.<\/p>\n Sister, Sister <\/em>premiered on ABC in April 1994, but just 12 episodes in, the network canceled the show due to the massive wave Friends<\/em> made when it premiered that September on NBC.<\/p>\n \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 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?’\u201d<\/p>\n Tamera starred alongside her twin sister, Tia Mowry<\/strong>, as twins separated at birth. Actors Tim Reid<\/strong> and 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 \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 \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source starmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a92002 RAMEY PHOTO 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2016459,"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":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Friends-Caused-This-Beloved-90s-Series-to-Be-Canceled-After.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016458","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=2016458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging.starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iphotos018527-scaled.jpg\")