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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_%28TV_series%29>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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