‘Friends’ Caused This Beloved ’90s Series to Be Canceled After Just 1 Season, Actress Claims

Sister, Sister hit the small screen just five months before Friends — and according to one of the show’s stars, the NBC sitcom was the reason Sister, Sister was initially canceled.

“I remember us just killing it in the ratings and then having all that taken away,” Tamera Mowry-Housley said during the HBO documentary Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television.

Sister, Sister premiered on ABC in April 1994, but just 12 episodes in, the network canceled the show due to the massive wave Friends made when it premiered that September on NBC.

“The president of the network, I can remember calling him saying, ‘How come we were canceled? What happened?’” Tamera, 47, continued. “And I can remember Friends came about, and a lot of the networks wanted to, they were like, ‘Wow, this show is a hit. How can we bring that to our network?'”

Tamera starred alongside her twin sister, Tia Mowry, as twins separated at birth. Actors Tim Reid and Jackée Harry played the girls’ parents. The series ultimately found a new network in the then-new The WB, where it ran for five more seasons.

“We go from being on ABC to The WB. I remember my sister and I going, ‘What the hell? What is that? The frog network?’” she continued. “A fledgling network? I remember looking that up, going, what does ‘fledgling’ even mean?”