US sitcom Will & Grace to return for a new series?

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Speculation is growing that hit US sitcom Will & Grace is about to be revived 10 years after it ended

Groundbreaking Noughties sitcom Will & Grace looks set to be resurrected for a new series, according to former stars.

The US show won 16 Emmy awards and was praised for its portrayal of gay and lesbian characters in the tale of a New York lawyer (Eric McCormack), his interior designer best friend (Debra Messing) and their various friends.

According to The Telegraph, co-star Leslie Jordan said it was being revived for 10 episodes, while another co-star Megan Mullally tweeted a picture of the four main cast members with the a solitary phrase 'self-explan'.

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Recently she said: "Well, OK. All I can say is that there is a very good chance that [the new series] might happen... It’s not happening right this second. I mean, we’re not rehearsing or anything like that. But there is a very good chance that something is going to materialise… can’t really talk about it or say anything, because you know how it is.”

The speculation about Will & Grace was fuelled by the main cast filming a sketch urging the US public to vote before the 2016 presidential election. It has been streamed almost seven million times

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NBC sitcom Will & Grace originally ran for eight years from 1998.

 

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.