The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984. The series focuses on the Huxtable family, an African-American family residing in Brooklyn, New York. According to TV Guide, the series"has been television's greatest hit in the 1980s, and also almost completely restored the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes". The series had been pitched. Entertainment Weekly stated that The Cosby Show helped make possible a bigger variety of exhibits from In Living Color. The Cosby Show was founded in the standup act, that have been based on his life of Cosby on humor patterns. That blueprint would be, followed by sitcoms, such as Everyone Loves Raymond and do it yourself. The series spawned the spin off A Different Planet , which ran for six seasons.