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How it all started
Gilmore Girls was created by Emmy award-winning writer/producer Amy Sherman-Palladino who previously
worked on half-hour sitcoms Roseanne and Veronica's closet. The story of Gilmore Girls began when Amy and her husband
Daniel, also he a producer and writer of the show, went to Connecticut to look at Mark Twain's wallpaper. While they were
there, they stayed in a small-town inn and were struck by the town's charm, and the fact that everyone seemed to know one
another. "I wanted to put on screen that feeling we got," Sherman-Palladino says.
Family values
Gilmore Girls was the first project to be funded in part by the Family Friendly Programming Forum, a
group founded by several advertisers including General Motors, Sears and Procter & Gamble, to promote family programming.
WB officials say the Forum liked the warm, respectful mother-daughter relationship and found Rory to be a great role model
for young girls. The involvement of the grandparents was a plus, making it a 'multigenerational family,' something rare
on television now.
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Casting
It took sveral months before finding the right actress to play the part as Lorelai. "She had to bee
smart, sexy, sophisticated, silly and a little sappy. Lauren gave us everything we wanted," says Amy Sherman Palladino.
Lauren and Alexis were both cast before even reading at rehearsals togeher. Their first meeting was in a hotel lobby in
Toronto just before shooting the pilot. This location was chosen for the pilot because it was less expensive, but as soon
as the show was picked up by the WB Television Network, the shooting continued in California.
The fastest-growing show on TV
Gilmore Girls was first aired in October, 2000. It was shown on Thursdays, in the same time-slot as the hit-series, Friends.
Due to this unfavourable airing-time, the first season of the show had few viewers and therefore bad ratings. However, the
network still held on to Gilmore Girls and for the second season, gave it a new time-slot, Tuesdays at 8 pm. This made an increase
in viewers with a whole 50 percent! Therefore, the network likes to call the show "the fastest-growing show on TV".
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