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4. The Bernie Mac Show. Network: Fox Loosely based on his own life, the sitcom follows a fictionalized version of late comedian Bernie Mac as he tries to raise his sister’s three children.
The 10 Most Important Black TV Shows of All Time. Mara Reinstein. December 1, 2023 at 8:17 AM ... Related: Try Not To Laugh Along With the 41 Best Black Comedy Movies of All Time. Roots. Getty Images.
Black sitcoms feature highly in the black audience's top 10 programs but have limited success with white audiences, attributed by Doug Alligood, senior vice-president at the advertising agency BBDO which has analyzed ratings figures, to the failure of humor to translate.
The highest-rated broadcast of all time is the final episode of M*A*S*H in 1983, with 60.2% of all households with television sets in the United States at that time watching the episode. [ 96 ] [ 97 ] Aside from Super Bowls, the most recent broadcast to receive a rating above 40 was the Seinfeld finale in 1998, with a 41.3.
The following table shows the all-time highest rating television shows in Mega Manila as tallied by AGB Nielsen since 1992. However, ratings are from a single highest recorded episode of the show (in the case of the TV series) and it is not the average over-all ratings for the whole season or series.
Following in the footsteps of '70s predecessors like Good Times and The Jeffersons, the '90s and early aughts were a sweet spot for the Black sitcom. From The Fresh Prince of Bel-Airand Family ...
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The main cast of The Honeymooners in 1955. I Love Lucy, which originally ran from 1951 to 1957 on CBS, was the most watched show in the United States in four of its six seasons, and was the first to end its run at the top of the Nielsen ratings (an accomplishment later matched only by The Andy Griffith Show in 1968 and Seinfeld in 1998).