Abby is an American sitcom created by Nat Bernstein and Michael Katlin that aired for one season on UPN from January 6, 2003, to March 4, 2003. The show features Sydney Tamiia Poitier (pictured) as television producer Abby Walker and Kadeem Hardison as her ex-boyfriend Will Jeffries. After they break up in the pilot episode, they agree to live together as friends in their rent-controlled San Francisco apartment. Bernstein and Katlin had intended to feature an interracial couple, casting Sean O'Bryan as Will. After a negative response from test audiences, they gave the role to Hardison and recast O'Bryan as a supporting character, along with Randy J. Goodwin and Tangie Ambrose. Despite UPN's heavy promotion, the show attracted a weekly average of just 1.7 million viewers, making it the lowest-performing show tracked by Nielsen Holdings at the time. Critical responses were primarily negative; commentators praised Poitier's acting but criticized the show's reliance on sexual humor.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1840:

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha married Queen Victoria at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London, becoming prince consort. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert,_Prince_Consort

1930:

The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launched the failed Yên Bái mutiny in the hope of ending French colonial rule in Vietnam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C3%AAn_B%C3%A1i_mutiny

1940:

Puss Gets the Boot, the first Tom and Jerry cartoon, was released to theaters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puss_Gets_the_Boot

1962:

Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy arrested by the FBI, was exchanged for Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of the CIA spy plane that had been shot down over Soviet airspace two years earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Gary_Powers

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

body camera: A video recording system worn on the body, typically used by law enforcement officers to record their interactions with the public, and gather video evidence at crime scenes. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/body_camera

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.   --Boris Pasternak https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Boris_Pasternak