The 1990s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is so popular with detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention center that the U.S. Defense Department has ordered all six seasons, The Miami Herald reports.
The NBC show about a young, inner-city Philadelphian who moves in with his wealthy cousins in California stars Will Smith.
Harry Potter, on the other hand, is waning, with copies of the book sitting unread. "They're over that," a Defense Department contractor who serves as Gitmo librarian tells the newspaper.
The librarian offers no reason for the show's popularity, noting only that surging interest in the sitcom follows a similar embrace of The Bill Cosby Show.
The Herald says the U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, houses 168 captives in their second decade of U.S. detention.
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