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Eric McCormack on the Return of “Will & Grace”

Eric McCormack on the Return of “Will & Grace”

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On July 20, 1998, Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally and Sean Hayes all stepped onto the stage at the Television Critics Association Annual Press tour to present a new NBC show -- Will & Grace.  Along with the show’s creative team, the new cast fielded questions during a hilarious session with the press.  The biggest question of all was, “Will we see a gay kiss on network television this season?”  Over the course of the next eight years, viewers would indeed see a gay kiss (or two), witness the sitcom’s huge societal impact and, following a move to Thursdays, become one of NBC’s Must-See TV staples.  The series return to the network this week (11 years after it officially “ended”) made for a very different TCA panel last month.  Gone were the pre-show nerves that come with debuting a new show; in their place was feeling of welcomed familiarity by its stars.  “I remember it well,” Eric McCormack told me of that first TCA panel.  “But I am dressed much better now than I was then, that I do know.  I was 34 and wasn’t a kid but I was new to having my name in the title of a network show and making sure I was doing everything right.  Now we have the freedom to be ourselves and to know what we are delivering.”

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Steve Gidlow, a long-time columnist for MediaVillage ("Behind the Scenes in Hollywood"), has written about television and pop culture since 1994, beginning in Australia.  Since moving to Hollywood in 1997, Steve has focused on celebrity interv… read more

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