_TGIF_ was dying a slow death. With no Urkel, the block struggled through this season. Suddenly, _Boy Meets World_ found itself as the veteran show of the block due to every other series either moving to CBS, airing on UPN, or getting cancelled.
That's true. Losing Family Matters & Step by Step to CBS, Clueless to UPN and canceling Hangin' with Mr. Cooper after the 1996-97 season caused irreparable harm to the previously dominant TGIF. Eventually clearing the way for CBS to dominate the Friday night lineup beginning in the next decade (2000s).
ABC's TGIF block (1989-2000) began to die in the fall of 1997: stemming from a combination of aging sitcoms like Family Matters and Step by Step moving to CBS (who started - and ended - their own family-friendly Friday night sitcom line-up in 1997-98 called "The Block Party"), the oversaturation of supernatural/magic type shows (Sabrina the Teenage Witch and new series You Wish and Teen Angel, the latter of which both lasted only one season), the failure of Two of a Kind (which was the last sitcom produced by the previously reliable Miller-Boyett group) starring the Olsen twins the following year. Ultimately, the ending of Boy Meets World after seven seasons and Sabrina, The Teenage Witch moving to The WB after the 1999-2000 season. ABC would bring back the TGIF brand for the 2003-05 & 2018-19 seasons, but it never met the same success it had before.
The 90s my childhood!!
I was 5 years old in that year! (yet I still remember that Little Ceasars commercial and others!)
Watching this sure makes me miss TGIF so much
ABC's TGIF lineup for Friday September 26, 1997 (1997-98 season premiere).
8pm - Sabrina (season 2 premiere: Sabrina Gets Her License - Part 1 & Part 2; postponing Boy Meets World)
9pm - You Wish! (series premiere: Pilot)
9:30pm - Teen Angel (series premiere: Marty Buys The Farm)
10pm - 20/20
Live from Greendale, it's Sabrina the Teenage Witch!
Live from Los Angeles, it's Friday Night!
_TGIF_ was dying a slow death. With no Urkel, the block struggled through this season. Suddenly, _Boy Meets World_ found itself as the veteran show of the block due to every other series either moving to CBS, airing on UPN, or getting cancelled.
That's true.
Losing Family Matters & Step by Step to CBS, Clueless to UPN and canceling Hangin' with Mr. Cooper after the 1996-97 season caused irreparable harm to the previously dominant TGIF.
Eventually clearing the way for CBS to dominate the Friday night lineup beginning in the next decade (2000s).
ABC's TGIF block (1989-2000) began to die in the fall of 1997: stemming from a combination of aging sitcoms like Family Matters and Step by Step moving to CBS (who started - and ended - their own family-friendly Friday night sitcom line-up in 1997-98 called "The Block Party"), the oversaturation of supernatural/magic type shows (Sabrina the Teenage Witch and new series You Wish and Teen Angel, the latter of which both lasted only one season), the failure of Two of a Kind (which was the last sitcom produced by the previously reliable Miller-Boyett group) starring the Olsen twins the following year. Ultimately, the ending of Boy Meets World after seven seasons and Sabrina, The Teenage Witch moving to The WB after the 1999-2000 season.
ABC would bring back the TGIF brand for the 2003-05 & 2018-19 seasons, but it never met the same success it had before.
Can I ask you something at all
September 26, 1997.