 When the original pilot script was submitted to Disney/Touchstone,  Michael Eisner (qv) liked it but he felt something was missing. He  thought a show about three old women living together might scare  away younger viewers. He asked Susan Harris (I) (qv) to keep  working on it. Harris then added the character of Sophia. When she  was added, Dorothy became just another woman dealing with her mother  and Eisner loved it. After Sophia was added and a pilot was shot, a  character named Coco, a gay male servant was cut from the series.