Lesley Joseph Seven Dwarfs" at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth. Joseph then portrayed Frau Blucher in the West End production of "Young Frankenstein". From 1989 to 1998, Joseph played Dorien Green in the sitcom "Birds of a Feather" which, at the time, aired on the BBC In December 2011, it was confirmed that Joseph would reunite with fellow "Birds of a Feather" cast members, Linda Robson and Pauline Quirke, for a theatre adaptation of the series. The trio toured the United Kingdom from May to July 2012. A new series of "Birds of a Feather" was filmed after the rights had been acquired
Black sitcom August 10, 2012, "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" surpassed "The Jeffersons" and became the longest-running sitcom with a predominantly African American cast in the history of American television in terms of number of episodes. On August 23 and 24, 2012, Debbie Allen, the former chief creative force of "A Different World" from 1988 to 1993, wrote on Twitter that she wants to reboot "A Different World". Over a million people on Facebook, Twitter, and blogs reacted to the tweet and approved the potential reboot. On September 24, 2014, the ABC sitcom "black-ish" premiered with over 11 million people watching the