The Gilmore Girls Reception

History:

Executive Producer: Amy-Sherman Palladino (seasons 1-6), husband Dan Palladino
Pilot episode received financial backing from the script development fund of the Family Friendly Programming Forum (one of first network shows to get their help)
Was aired on the WB's prime time Thursday 8pm/7 Central time slot
Time slot competing with Survivor and Friends in its first season, ratings were not so successful in first season
Was moved to 8pm Tuesday slot and dominated in the ratings over time-slot competitor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
By 5th season became WB's second most watched prime time show- fan base grew by double digits in all major demographics

GILMORE GIRLS, which was just named the best new drama by the Viewers For Quality
Television, improved its time period November-to-November in adults 18-34 (1.6), women 18-34 (2.1) and men 18-
34 (1.1) and also succeeded in broadening the network's Thursday audience by achieving its largest gains in adults 18-
49 (+25%, 1.5), women 18-49 (+19%, 1.9), men 18-49 (+11%, 1.0) and men 12-34 (+18%, 1.3) as well as in total
viewers (3.7 million).
... Time Warner Press Release in 2000
(http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,668053,00.html)

Season 7 Debut: "Gilmore Girls" built in the second half hour across all key demographics and viewers, increasing 15%
in adults 18-34, 16% in women 18-34 and adding more than 700,000 viewers at 8:30PM." Released by the CW...
(http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20060927cw01)
Syndication release, airs on ABC Family Network and Soap Net
May 2007 CW announced the series would not be renewed due to finances (apparently reaching deals with main cast members was a problem)
Creator Amy-Sherman Palladino has expressed making a Gilmore Girls Movie
Production Company: Dorothy Parker Drank Here (created by Amy-Sherman Palladino)
Target demographic adults 18-34

Awards:
American Film Institute Award
Named one of 100 best TV shows of all time by Time Magazine
2 Viewers for Quality Television Awards
Named New Program of the Year by the Television Critics Association
Won an Emmy in 2004
Won a Family Television Award for New Series
Named Best Family TV Drama Series by the Young Artist Awards
Listed on Entertainment Weekly end of the decade "best-of" list

Reviews:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,439216,00.html

"The WB's standout program" http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/orlandosentinel/access/790176391.html?dids=790176391:790176391&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+08%2C+2005&author=Hal+Boedeker%2C+Sentinel+Television+Critic&pub=Orlando+Sentinel&desc=THE+GILMORE+GIRLS+GET+THEIR+GROOVE+%3B+TONIGHT'S+MILESTONE+EPISODE+SHOWS+WHY+THE+SHOW+IS+SO+POPULAR+AND+REMAINS+THE+WB'S+STANDOUT+PROGRAM.&pqatl=google

soap opera elements- http://www.smh.com.au/news/dvd-reviews/the-gilmore-girls-season-three/2006/07/27/1153816295082.html

Music critic mother and daughter morn of the end of the show- http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/213263

"We want to thank Amy for creating and nurturing this wonderful series for the past six years and giving us one of the most memorable mother-daughter relationships in television history," Warner Brothers Television said in a statement. http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2006-04-20-gilmore-girls-producers_x.htm

INTERESTING FACT: In 2001 a rumor circulated that Aaron Sorkin, writer/producer of the West Wing, was actually writing the Gilmore Girls- that Amy-Sherman Palladino was his pseudonym...

http://www.gilmoregirls.org/news/98.html