Designing Women
Adding to the list of eighty and 90s sitcoms ca-ca their means into the twenty-first century , CBS’sDesigning Womenwill get a fresh reboot for today ’s viewing audience . This observe CBS ’s prior decisiveness to order a 13 - episode reboot of fellow 90s favoriteMurphy Brown .
Perhaps TV stations have exhausted every potential secret plan line in existence , and it ’s causing this pattern of re - packaging previously released content . Whatever is have it , fans of shows likeQueer Eye , Full House , andTwin Peaksaren’t complaining , as more and more beloved characters and format make their long - expect return to the small screen . The same mentality applies to fans ofDesigning Women . The original show , created by Linda Bloodworth - Thomason , aired from 1986 to 1993 , run for 163 episodes , and revolve around around the employees of an Atlanta invention firm - Sugarbaker & Associates . The show originally starred Dixie Carter , Delta Burke , Annie Potts , Jean Smart , and Meshach Taylor . Towards the end of the series , Julia Duffy andSaturday Night Live ’s Jan Hooks would supercede Burke and Smart .
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TV Linebroke the news ofDesigning Women’sreboot this good afternoon . Fans will no doubt hope the new series includes at least cameos from some of the original cast member , though Carter , Taylor and Hooks have all unfortunately passed away . At least fans can stay assured that Godhead Bloodworth - Thomason will be the show ’s driving creative effect once again . The project will be shopped around to networks soon , with CBS seeming like an obvious candidate to volunteer it a home , especially if the revivedMurphy Brownproves successful .
Designing Womenoriginally air out to decent rating on Monday nights , but was moved around to a few other metre slot - where the ratings precipitate considerably - before finding its footing back on Mondays . Still , the show was never able to really take on unofficial rivalThe Golden Girls . In 1992 , the show suffer a slow and painful death , moving to a Friday night slot and experiencing a significant loss of ratings . That of necessity led to its cancellation the follow May . In spite of its anticlimactic ending , the show has remain a fond favorite of lover , and its postmortem popularity helped warrant a reboot .
The popular - leaning show ’s creator , Bloodworth - Thomason , openly supported both Bill and Hillary Clinton . It ’s therefore unsurprising thatDesigning Womenhas found ground in the current metre time period , following both the # MeToo movement and recent Hillary Clinton presidential campaign . Undoubtedly , the sitcom , focused on a radical of self-governing , work women , will touch on topic pertinent to current political movements . Many reboots thus far have made an endeavour to include social commentary on the trouble facing America today . FromQueer EyetoRoseanne , they’ve function the gamut when it comes to political feeling . Although the market may be glut with reboots , there ’s always outer space for the opinions of a strong group of women .
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