''Living Single'' is an unexpected hit
by
Alan Carter | May 13 1994 — 12:00 AM EDT
In the battle for Sunday night, the conventional wisdom at the start of the TV season said audiences could live without
Living Single. The big ratings contenders were deemed to be CBS’
Murder, She Wrote, NBC’s
seaQuest DSV, and ABC’s
Lois & Clark; Fox’s man-ribbing sitcom, dismissed by critics as a rip- off of earlier four-women shows, supposedly would have to scramble just to hang on to the viewers of its 8 p.m. lead-in,
Martin. And what happened? Living Single bested
Martin and ranked eighth among young adults, sinking
seaQuest’s sub, taking the wind out of Superman’s cape, and murdering anything Jessica Fletcher wrote. Among black viewers, the series took the season’s crown as the No. 1 show in any time slot.