Gilmore Girls is an American comedy drama television series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino. Sherman-Palladino served as executive producer, alongside Gavin Polone, Daniel Palladino, and David S. Rosenthal. It is produced by Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions, Hofflund/Polone and Warner Bros. Television. The show follows single mother Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) and her daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel) in the fictional town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, a close-knit small town with many quirky characters, located roughly thirty minutes south of Hartford.
From 2000 to 2006, the first six seasons of Gilmore Girls originally aired on The WB, before it later merged with UPN to form The CW for its seventh and final season.[1] All seven seasons were released on DVD in Regions 1, 2, and 4. Over the course of the series, it averaged 5 million viewers per episode over its seven seasons. The series originally aired on Thursday at 8:00 pm (Eastern) in its first season. However, it was moved to Tuesday at 8:00 pm for the second season and held it for the rest of the series' run. The show placed No. 32 on Entertainment Weekly's "New TV Classics" list,[2] and in 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazine's "All-TIME 100 TV Shows."[3] The show is known for its comedic fast dialogue.
Over the course of seven seasons, Gilmore Girls aired a total of 153 episodes. It returned in 2016 for a limited miniseries A Year in the Life. The revival consists of four 90-minute episodes released on Netflix.