it unclear who lead girlfriend formation and whether kelsey grammar round up a bunch of african american heavyweight to build a show and or whether the heavyweight leverage grammar success to get their show air . either way and girlfriends operates at the peak of hollywood production and with a very richly talented team of actor and writer and producer and etc . the result seem much like frasier and blend stereotype and caricature and and comedy of manner humor with delicately woven story of challenge contemporary audience will see a real and relevant . that a tightrope walk . the humor be an established art and in accomplished hand while but the right compromise between humor and realism be far less certain and even for such a skilled group . though i might personally prefer to tweak the compromise a bit more toward realism and that would make it a different show . i really like frasier familiar eccentricity or caricature and all . but i find martin lawrence and tyler perry and and eddie murphy far too silly or campy or ghetto . i do and however and notice that they continue to make more money and garner more fame than certain others . the very accomplished but not a famous crew behind girlfriend surely notice that too . creator for hbo and showtime craft show to build on the network reputation for more weighty or intense or realistic programming . ( e. g. soul food ) girlfriends creator must likewise craft the show for the very different market positioning at upn . i expect the girlfriend we see be a very deliberately craft balance and adjust to maximize rating or earnings in a upn context . the same could be say of frasier while and i find both show entertain . male character construction in girlfriend be an interesting side note . william be give more development and air time than any male on sex and the city or l word and serving a a foil not just in interaction but in his parallel story line . in make the story about the girlfriend and the writer have wonderfully show no urge to regurgitate the standard set of negative black male stereotype . even more than with sex and the city and girlfriends mostly explore the lead issue by contrast with normality in it male actor .