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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 328326" data-attributes="member: 27">Some claim that Cybill, the 1990s CBS sitcom, was another rip-off/homage to AbFab, since the comedy interplay between Cybill Shepherd and Christine Baranski was just so good, and Baranski's character Mary Ann Thorpe had more Patsy Stone in her than they likely intended originally.  But Cybill had been created as a star vehicle that was based on Shepherd's real life, only becoming more AbFab-like once the producers saw the chemical explosion between Cybill and Mary Ann and decided to make Mary Ann into a breakout character.I only mentioned it in passing, since Lucie Arnaz's show was so forgettable.  Had I not been such a fan of the source material, there would have been no reason to remember it.</blockquote>