Carmen Munroe 1967 "Doctor Who" story "The Enemy of the World"; a part in "General Hospital", in "The Persuaders" (1971), Barry Reckord's "In the Beautiful Caribbean" (BBC 1972), Alfred Fagon's "Shakespeare Country" (BBC 1973), "The Fosters" (LWT, 1976–77), Michael Abbensetts' "Black Christmas" (BBC, 1977), "Mixed Blessings" (1978–80), Horace Ové's "A Hole in Babylon" (BBC, 1979), and Caryl Phillips' "The Hope and the Glory" (BBC, 1984). Munroe became best known, however, for her regular appearances between 1989 and 1994 in the Channel 4 sitcom "Desmond's" (written by Trix Worrell) as Shirley, wife of the eponymous barber Desmond Ambrose, played by Norman Beaton. Her
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