Living Single stars Kim Coles and Erika Alexander are ready for another round of the ʼ90s hit.
The duo revealed on Tuesday’s episode of Sherri that they’re launching a rewatch podcast, Reliving Single, and host Sherri Shepherd quickly followed up with the question of whether they’d like to return to the show if the podcast led to a reboot.
The actresses pretended to be deep in thought, as seen in the video below.
Coles eventually answered in the affirmative: “I’m gonna say yes, because I think we all still look good, and that’s my very shallow reasoning.”
Then she got more serious.
“And because we all still love each other,” Coles said, “and there’s still a beautiful chemistry that will never die.”
With a cast that also included Kim Fields, Queen Latifah, T.C. Carson, and John Henton, the sitcom aired for five seasons, from 1993 to 1998, on Fox. In it, Coles’ Synclaire, Latifah’s Khadijah, and Régine, played by Fields, were twentysomething roommates living in Brooklyn. Alexander portrayed Maxine, a regular at the women’s home, while T.C. Carson’s Kyle and John Henton’s Overton lived in their brownstone.
Nearly three decades later, the Emmy-nominated series continues to air in rereuns.
In 2019, Latifah told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live that a revival of the sitcom that seemed to inspire Friends, which debuted in 1994, was on the way.
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T.C. Carson, Kim Fields, Kim Coles, and John Henton in 2018
“We’re actually working on it,” she said then. “It’s not there yet, but hopefully we can get it happening.”
Jason Sudeikis, who was Latifah’s fellow guest on WWHL, said he “thought Friends was the reboot.”
“We knew we had already been doing that,” she said. “It was one of those things where there was a guy called Warren Littlefield, who used to run NBC, and they asked him, ‘When all the new shows came out, if there was any show you could have, which one would it be?’ And he said Living Single…. And then he created Friends.” (The show was officially created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman.)
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This year, the star of The Equalizer and Alexander had one of the cast’s reunions when Latifah popped up via video call during Alexander’s February guest spot on The Drew Barrymore Show. She talked about the warm memories she had of making Living Single.
“We would always hang out after we shot the show, we would go somewhere like to the Sheraton in Universal and just get toasted,” Latifah said. “And have a good time together — yeah, we would go to that Sheraton and get it in. And we would just hang out and be friends. And the guys too. It was just a big, big friendship.”
She also said that she was “up for anything Living Single reunion.”
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