Tia has commented that "To be honest with you, I hate to pop the balloon." From September 1998 to September 1999, Paramount Domestic Television (now CBS Television Distribution) distributed the series to Fox, The WB and UPN network affiliates, such as WWOR-TV (who aired the show reruns weeknights at 6:30pm in New York City) around the United States, airing depending on market. [16][17] It was subsequently announced on December 28, 2015, that VEI (through its deal with CBS Television Distribution) would release a complete DVD set of the series, Sister, Sister: The Complete Collection (which includes all six seasons), in Region 1 on January 19, 2016,[18] the release date was then pushed back to March 18, 2016. The program found its niche as part of The WB's lineup and aired for four additional seasons on the network, with the final episode airing on May 23, 1999. They were thinking of doing a "Twins in the city" plot, like the twins in New York City. In January 2018, a revival of Sister, Sister was confirmed and is currently in the works. Gascoine, who revealed she was battling Alzheimer's disease in 2013, is married to actor Alfred Molina, who is also starring in and executive producing the film. The premise was that Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell were separated at birth and one was adopted by a single mother while the other was adopted by a couple, although the mother died afterwards; 14 years later the two accidentally found each other and reunited. It does, however, offer some nice juicy moments for the cast, and it passes the Bechdel Test with flying colors. An instrumental version of the final theme was used as a closing theme for the final two seasons, though with the exception of the episode "Designer Genes", it was generally played over a blooper reel during the closing credits. The series was created by Kim Bass, Gary Gilbert, and Fred Shafferman, and produced by de Passe Entertainment and Paramount Network Television. In Australia and New Zealand, the series was aired on Nickelodeon and the Seven Network; in the United Kingdom, Sister, Sister was aired on Nickelodeon, and on Channel 4 between 1995 and 2000[13] as the channel had the terrestrial rights to the show. CBS DVD (distributed by Paramount) released the first and second seasons of Sister, Sister on DVD in Region 1 in 2008 and 2009. In both plays, the apparent suicide of a parent — in Freedman's story, a mother — sets off the emotional fireworks. It also aired in Ireland, on RTÉ2. Not sure how that would have actually killed her. [19] The Mowry twins 2000 television film Seventeen Again is also included as a bonus disc on the Complete Collection set. Finding out whether or not Sister Cities is a true story. Sister Cities lays out a developing trend in American moral thinking that I believe is an aspect of the general degeneration of our society, and despite the fact that this movie is well crafted, I give it a 4. An analogy about the sisters as Russian stacking dolls feels a little too on-the-nose, but Chacon's Baltimore, embodying the defiant but bruised and somewhat-lost youngest child, makes it work. The opening sequence used in the first two seasons, designed by Twin Art, opens with the sound of two spanks and crying babies over a black screen as animated crying babies appear with the word "separated" between them, then showing Ray and Lisa each holding babies representing Tamera and Tia with the word "adopted" appearing between both. Sister, Sister was picked up by ABC as a midseason replacement and debuted on April 1, 1994, as part of the network's TGIF comedy lineup. What's Happening With the Sisters on DVD? Molina said he worked with Freedman through the years to bring the play to the screen. I kept wanting and waiting for it to end. [24], On January 16, 2018, while appearing on Steve, Harry confirmed the revival, stating that "it's happening". Though mother Mary's grown-up girls are the products of four different marriages, none of them seems as interested in men as Mom apparently was. Colette Freedman's "Sister Cities" is about daughters gathering to sort out their differences after the death of their mother, here in its Chicago premiere by Chimera Ensemble. Jan 15, 2017. We're told Carolina made senior partner at 26, which rather strains credulity.) In the UK, Nickelodeon aired Sister Sister again in 2009 but only showed episodes from the first four seasons. The girls' neighbor is nerdy Roger Evans (Marques Houston), an annoying teenager who is infatuated with both of them, and who eventually evolves into a perfect gentleman they both find attractive in the later seasons of the series. Yost's brittle Carolina finds some surprising — and not entirely convincing — reserves of forgiveness late in the play, which feels a bit too much like a tidy-bow ending. [5] During the ABC run, Tia and Tamera would address the audience on some of the goings on in the storyline involving them and occasionally other main characters, usually Roger. But there are points along the journey that may well resonate for those who have felt like strangers in the homeland of their own families. "I wrote Sister Cities in 2005 because my best friend, Jill Gascoine, who was a famous actress in England, told me that she was retiring from acting and would not act again unless she played a corpse," Freedman said in an interview published on The Dragon Theatre's website in 2011. In the final season when the girls go off to college, Roger ceases to appear in the series because he was still in high school, though he does return as a guest in the final episode. There's no mention of Sister Cities being based on a true story in that summary, but it does say that the film is based on a play of the same name written by Colette Freedman. By the fifth season, Tia and Tamera ended up with steady boyfriends: Tia's is Tyreke Scott (RonReaco Lee) and Tamera's is Jordan Bennett (Deon Richmond). It ends with the cast (sans Marques Houston) walking into each other, then getting themselves together over changing cloud backdrops, one which features two roadsigns, before the title logo appears. Throughout the movie, the local police department investigates the mother's death, but a terrible secret threatens to tear the family apart, as they tend to do. Can I just say that whoever cast this movie did a good job of finding actresses who actually look like sisters when they gave Stana Katic, Troian Bellisario, Michelle Tractenberg, and Jess Weixler the roles as the siblings in this tale? ET. But according to the film's synopsis also on Lifetime's website, Sister Cities actually seems to tell a darker tale of four estranged sisters, each one sharing a mother but with different fathers, who reunite after their mom's mysterious death. 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