As I watched "Single Ladies" (VH1, 9 tonight), I wondered when sitcoms will stop being a variation of "Friends" or "Sex and the City."

That's not necessarily an indictment of "Single Ladies," which follows the love lives of three friends in Atlanta. It's not revolutionary, but it's not awful either.

OK, sometimes it is pretty silly. Stacey Dash plays Val, a stylist cum boutique owner involved with a basketball star. Her best friends are Keisha (LisaRaye McCoy, not stretching her acting range at all), the self-proclaimed gold digger who vows to not let emotions get in her way; and April (Charity Shea), their blonde friend with a husband whom adores her.

LisaRaye McCoy, the curvy lady in white, is back on her grind with the premiere of the second season of "LisaRaye: The Real McCoy" (TV One, 9 tonight).

As we rejoin the show, and LisaRaye's life is definitely a show, she's not rebuilding anymore (last season she was going back to acting after stepping back for a marriage that eventually failed); she's got a show and a number of business enterprises. She's also got family all around her. Besides her cousin Quincy and her daughter Kai, another cousin is a personal assistant and she's got two new business partners.

In the two episodes I got to screen, LisaRaye's as tough and irrepressible as ever.