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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | 9:02am
CW’s Girlfriends Cancelled! It wasn’t my Fault…Honest!
I think I jinxed them.
I don’t know if I jinxed the program yesterday by sending a shout to their marketing team for their great partnership with AllState Insurance. However, today the buzz is all different. EURweb.com and TheYBF.com are reporting that CW has decided to cancel the series, Girlfriends immediately instead of bringing it back for a ninth season according to a source within the “Girlfriends” writing camp. There has been no formal release but we’re told they won’t even film this season’s remaining nine episodes that were suspended during the writer’s strike.
In addition to the irony that just yesterday I wrote a rare post on the show, the show’s cancellation comes just as the writers reached an agreement to end the strike. The series was consistently the No. 1 show in black households since its Sept. 11, 2000 debut.
This is a huge blow to African-American television. Not only was Girlfriends the longest-running live-action comedy series currently on network television but its importance was in the example the characters set as positive black successful women and the special bond that “Girlfriends” share. For some it represented the black Sex and the City and was an icon of black love among best friends. I’m sure as this news spreads they’re will be a lot of outraged fans and I’d be willing to bet many protests to have the show return to the air. became with the debut of its current season in October 2007. The writers strike suspended production after only 13 of 22 ordered episodes were completed.
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uhh oh well
this show was groundbreaking. I used to actually catch it from time to time while in Iraq (imagine that). All in all it was a pretty good show that had a good run.BTW at least two of the could get the biz, the other not so much.