It is one of two sitcoms that reigned at the top of Nielsen's ratings for five consecutive seasons. Over the course of its original run, which spanned from 1984 to 1992, The Cosby Show was revered for resurrecting the television sitcom in the 1980s.
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Bill Cosby," the statement from TV One reads, "feedback from our audience indicates that most TV One viewers still have a nostalgic affinity for this iconic TV show."īillie Gold, media analyst and vice president director of programming research at Amplifi US, confirmed that Bounce and TV One appear to be the only U.S. "Although there has been controversy surrounding the allegations and court case against Mr. Separately, only 14% of respondents said the allegations against Cosby made them less likely to watch.) (When asked about their research method, a TV One spokesperson explained that the network conducted a study with Maru/Matchbox in January 2016, and according to 600 respondents, 81% would be likely to watch reruns of the show on the network. Research showed, according to TV One, that 81% of black Americans are likely to watch, with 86% indicating that recent events didn't negatively affect their decision. Heathcliff Huxtable, the beloved television character." In a statement to Mic, the network also cited their audience's ability to "distinguish their feelings regarding Mr. On May 19, rather quietly, black-owned cable network TV One began airing reruns of the show, too, just two weeks before Cosby was set to stand trial. Bounce TV is billed as the first and only broadcast network aimed at black audiences and was founded in 2011 by Martin Luther King III and Andrew Young."While we take very seriously the accusations against Bill Cosby, our research showed that African-American consumers see a distinction between Bill Cosby, the man, and the iconic TV character Cliff Huxtable," a Bounce TV spokesperson said in a statement to Mic.
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That is until December 2016, when Bounce TV started re-airing the show after it announced in November that the landmark '80s sitcom would be "back by popular demand." In March, the network also began airing episodes of Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids, Cosby's cartoon series that originally ran from 1972 to 1985, during an early Friday morning time slot. The Huxtables were no longer on television.
The sitcom was completely off the air by July 2015, when the BET-owned Centric, which had recently rebranded as a network geared toward black women, became the last network to pull the show. In December 2014, the Magic Johnson-owned network Aspire cut ties with the wholesome comedy. TV Land scrapped the show from its programming in November 2014.
One by one, networks began to pull reruns of The Cosby Show off the air. Dozens of women then spoke out about being sexually assaulted by the comedian and actor, with some incidents dating as far back as the mid-1960s. In October 2014, Hannibal Buress' stand-up routine about Cosby's alleged history of sexual assaults went viral.
It was Cosby, the 79-year-old television icon, who faced three counts of aggravated indecent assault against former Temple University employee Andrea Constand. But doting dad Cliff Huxtable wasn't on trial.
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