When It's Girl Meets World

If you were to ask any teenage girl in the 90s what they wanted to find in a relationship their response would be "A love like Cory and Topanga's".  For seven seasons, Boy Meets World captivated the hearts of audiences. The show, which aired on ABC Network from 1993-2000, followed lead character, Cory Matthews, and his friend's journey through life. Flash forward to 10-years later, a spin-off is in now in the works.

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Last November, the news broke out about "Girl Meets World", a spin-off series about Cory and Topanga's daughter Riley. Ben Savage and Danielle Fisher will be reprising their roles as Cory and Topanga . Early this morning, Entertainment Tonight, got a behind the scenes on-set picture of the cast. While fans are excited about the upcoming spin-off, some are a little nervous about it airing on The Disney Channel. So here is the question, did the producers play the safe card?

"TGIF Fridays" was big for ABC in the late 90s. Shows like "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and "Family Matters", were a part of that line up. Now Friday Nights are usually your "Kiss of Death" night, a night where viewership is down in overall and key demo because of the start of the weekend. "Girl Meets World" had the potential to bring back the "TGIF" on ABC or even been placed during the Wednesday Comedy line up.   Fans of Boy Meets World are now in their twenties, so the next logical approach would have been to get the pilot to air on ABC Family. ABC Family is the "in between" network between the three. If "Girl Meets World" would have been aired on this network, the producers can still talk about "teenage issues" and make it a bit more PG-13 so to speak. With the show being aired on Disney Channel, in my opinion, it leaves little room to focus on some major teenage milestones among other issues. What fans loved about "Boy Meets World, was it was raw and relatable. 

The main focus of this spin-off is to see which demo it will attract. What is so brilliant is, there are two main demo's which the show could go either way. It will be interesting to see what the first few episodes will look like: How the back story will fit in to the plot of the spin-off and if Riley will follow in her dad's footsteps. But  Disney Channel,  here is one big request from "Boy Meets World" fans everywhere,  please don't mess up this show. 

Are you looking forward to "Girl Meets World"?