Dream Homes
‘WHEN Bill Cosby hung up his jumper for the last time, we thought wed seen the end of the Cosby Show.
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The cast went on to bigger and better things (although apart form Lisa Bonets brief film career and romance with Lenny Kravitz, none of these things seem to have involved acting).
But it was a winning format. And since TV loves a winning formula, theres a new variant on the Cosby theme today on BBC2. Its called My Wife And Kids.
The family in this at times syrupy-sweet concoction are African-American (as with the Cosbys) and live in the suburbs of Connecticut (the Cosbys lived in the suburbs of New York).
They are also pretty well off professionals (Bill Cosby was a doctor), and live in the ideal American home of much wood, massive space and absolute clinical newness.
They are called the Kyles. The Cosbys were called the Cosbys. And those are the key differences in a show that is for all intents and purposes the Cosby Show Mark II.’
Posted: 27th, February 2004 | In: Celebrities Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
