WHERE SHE IS TODAY: Khadijah and Scooter came back from Rio and realized they still needed to figure out how to make a bi-coastal relationship work, and they did it for a while, with Khadijah using time on the West Coast to help expand Flava and Scooter spending as much time in NY as possible. WHERE WE LEFT HER: Leaving NY (plus plates and food on the table!) to follow her heart, and her man Scooter (Cress Williams), to Rio. In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Living Single, The Boombox has taken the liberty of imaging where Khadijah and crew are today. We knew they’d be good in the end though because they had each other to help them face the challenges of a ‘90s kinda world… But then what happened?
LIVING SINGLE SEASON 3 EPISODE 25 PROFESSIONAL
Living Single wasn’t just a comedy vehicle like Martin but took us through the group’s struggles finding their professional footing, navigating their love lives, and even managing their parents and families as (newly) grown ass people.
It inspired a new format for ensemble comedy, spawning NBC’s Friends, which premiered the following year, and later Girlfriends and arguably Sex in the City. First as part of FOX’s In Living Color-anchored Sunday night line up, then moved to the network’s black response to “Must-See TV” on Thursday with Martin and New York Undercover, Living Single was Top 5 among black audiences for the duration of its run, and the highest rated show among the demo from ’96-’97. Living Single and Martin were the first time Gen X were seeing themselves and their friends on TV in adult situations. Carson): a group of upwardly-mobile black friends in their 20s making their way in a pre-gentrified Brooklyn row house. From 1993 to 1998, Living Single kept black viewers invested in the lives of Khadijah James (Queen Latifah), Regine Hunter (Kim Fields), Synclaire James (Kim Coles), Maxine Shaw (Erika Alexander), Overton Wakefield Jones (John Henton), and Kyle Barker (T.C. Then, in the early ‘90s, former A Different World producer Yvette Lee Bowser had the idea to create a sitcom based on her experiences in her 20s a show centered around black women. But again, these shows were about the black family, or the young adult(s) leaving the nest for the first time and finding their way. The era was blessed us with a range of vehicles showcasing the black family and experience: The Jeffersons, 227, Amen, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire, Family Matters, and of course the gold standards in black television for many, Cosby and A Different World. There was no dearth of black sitcoms in the ‘80s and early ‘90s.
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