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Designing Women on CBS

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Savvy single women run Sugarbakers, an Atlanta decorating business, in this saucy sitcom with feminist sensibilities, which also endured its share of tabloid notoriety (thanks in some measure to Delta Burke's fluctuating weight and her departure from the series in 1991). Created by Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the series garnered 11 Emmy nominations.

Designing Women Season 2 and Other Announced Releases | DVD News | 5/8/2009
New releases announced May 7:

Adam-12 - Season 3 will be coming out August 11

Designing Women - The Complete 2nd Season will be coming out August 11

Huckleberry Finn and His Friends - The Complete Series will be coming out June 16

Simon & Simon - Season 3 will be coming out August 18

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Caprica and Other Announced Releases | DVD News | 2/6/2009
New releases announced today, February 5:

Caprica will be coming out April 21

Designing Women - Season 1 will be coming out May 26

The Jetsons - Season 2, Volume 1 will be coming out June 2

HBO's True Blood - The Complete 1st Season on DVD & Blu-ray Disc will be coming out May 19

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Delta Burke Checks In to a Psychiatric Hospital | Today's News: Our Take | 2/6/2008
Delta Burke checked herself into a psychiatric hospital last week, she told TMZ, to treat depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and hoarding. In an interview, the former Designing Women star, 51, discusses her hoarding condition, a disorder in which individuals collect items to an unhealthy extent. While Burke says that the illness has "ruined" her life, she believes that she'll be able to overcome it, ostensibly starting with her hospital treatment. — Anna Dimond read more
Bewitched's Alice Ghostley Dead at 81 | Today's News: Our Take | 9/23/2007
Alice Ghostley, who is best known to television audiences for her roles on Bewitched and Designing Women, died on Friday after a long battle with colon cancer. She was 81. In the 1960s, the AP notes, Ghostley received a Tony nod for the comedy The Beauty Part and eventually won the award for The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. From 1969 to '72, she played good witch/ditzy housekeeper Esmeralda on Bewitched. From '87 to '93 she was Designing Women's Bernice, a role for which she netted an Emmy nom. read more
Dixie Carter Dissects Desperate Housewives' One Tough Mother | Today's News: Our Take | 1/12/2007
What did she know, and when did she know it? Such questions apply not only to Desperate Housewives' devious Gloria, but also to her portrayer, Dixie Carter. TVGuide.com invited the veteran actress and stage star to take a long, hard look at her Machiavellian matriarch. TVGuide.com: I understand they're expanding your presence on Wisteria Lane in the weeks to come?Dixie Carter: Yes.... My shows are going to air up to the first of April. I'm just thrilled to be doing this. This is really an extraordinary role. And, of course, we have to be very secretive about what's going to happen. Everybody grabs me in airports or shops and says things like, "Is he going to kill you?" Of course they mean, "Is your son, Orson, on Desperate Housewives going to kill you, his mother Gloria?" — but the read more

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Premiered: September 29, 1986, on CBS

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Premise: Savvy single women run Sugarbakers, an Atlanta decorating business, in this saucy sitcom with feminist sensibilities, which also endured its share of tabloid notoriety (thanks in some measure to Delta Burke's fluctuating weight and her departure from the series in 1991). Created by Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the series garnered 11 Emmy nominations.

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