Elka was only going to be in the pilot. Betty White's rising popularity made the producers offer her a regular job.
The house has real pictures of the actresses and their families.
When the show first began in early 2010, Wendie Malick, Valerie Bertinelli, and Jane Leeves were supposed to be playing characters in their late 40s. Malick was 60 in 2010.
This is Betty White's first long running series, after The Golden Girls (1985) and The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970), not to win her an Emmy. She received a nomination for the first season, and won back-to-back SAG awards.
TV Land's first original scripted comedy.
