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It’s Official – NBC Announces The Return Of “Will & Grace”

Former cast member Leslie Jordan may have jumped the gun recently when he told a San Diego radio station that hit TV show Will & Grace was “definitely” coming back, but now it’s official.

Via Deadline:

The Emmy-winning Will & Grace is returning to NBC. After months of complex and difficult negotiations, the network has closed a deal for a new 10-episode limited installment of the hit series, to air during the 2017-18 season. NBC Entertainment president Jennifer Salke made the announcement at the top of NBC’s TCA presentation.

The new, ninth season of Will & Grace stems from the surprise election-themed reunion mini-episode released on Sept. 26. Done without NBC’s involvement, it immediately triggered talk of a possible real reunion.

Slowly but surely, producing studio Universal TV was able to secure stars Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally and Sean Hayes as well as creators/executive producers Max Mutchnick and David Kohan. Veteran director James Burrows, who directed every episode of the show during its initial eight-year run, is on board to direct and executive produce.

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News Round-Up: January 3, 2017

Fitness model Nick Sandell

Some news items you may have missed:

• Nick Sandell wishes you a shirtless Happy Happy New Year!

• Debra Messing says new Will & Grace episodes are not a done deal.

• Only 46% of Americans believe Donald Trump can handle an international crisis versus an average of 71% of his predecessors.

• Janet Jackson gives birth to her first child at 50.

• The Alabama NAACP is holding a sit-in at Sen. Jeff Sessions office until he withdraws his nomination for U.S. Attorney General.

• New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed to offer free tuition at state colleges to hundreds of thousands of middle- and low-income New Yorkers.

• On New Year’s Eve, a federal judge issued an injunction blocking enforcement of federal protections that would have barred those in healthcare services to deny reproductive health services as well as services to transgender people based on “religious beliefs.”

• It’s been 159 days since Donald Trump held a press conference. Back in the summer days of the campaign, he excoriated Hillary Clinton for going 179 days with answering questions from the press. Hypocrisy?

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Leslie Jordan: NBC Ordered 10 Episodes of WILL & GRACE Reboot

I guess all of our excitement registered over at NBC.

Via GetListy:

Yes honey, Will and Grace will in fact be returning to NBC in 2017.

According to Leslie Jordan who portrayed “Beverly Leslie,” nemesis to “Karen Walker” on the sitcom, the actor stated in a December 22nd interview with KPBS, a local NPR affiliate out of San Diego, that NBC has ordered ten brand new episodes of the show, you can listen to the interview here, the announcement comes around the five minute mark.

All the actors and actresses will be returning for this exciting new reboot, including Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes, and Megan Mullally.

The cast recently got together for a very short, ten minute episode that was posted to social media in support of Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The election video posted by Vote Honey has well over six million views, and was the first time the cast had reprised their roles.

It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since Will and Grace came to an end on NBC, but we are excited to see what the revival has in store for us.

Here’s the link to Leslie Jordan’s interview announcing the news.

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This Week In LGBT News – Will & Grace, Aston, & Daddy The Movie

Kick back and listen in as I recap several of the top LGBT stories of the week including:

• Pansexual music artist Aston dropped her new dance single “Circles” this week

• Update to the tragic story of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers University freshman who committed suicide after cyber bullying by his college roommate.

• HIV history gets a rewrite as the myth of “Patient Zero” is debunked

• The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear an important transgender rights case

• Rumors swirl about a possible Will & Grace reboot, plus Sean Hayes apologizes to LGBT community for not coming out sooner

• Randy’s interview with hunky Bear City / DADDY film star Gerald McCullouch

And much more!

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News Round-Up: October 28, 2016

Some news stories you may have missed.:

• NBC is considering a Will & Grace revival!

• Talk about dying on the Vine! Twitter is pulling the plug on it’s six-second cousin.

• GLAAD says it’s time we adopt the acronym LGBTQ versus the current LGBT when referring to the community.

• The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a Virginia transgender student over the right to use bathrooms that align with his gender identity.

• Jennifer Lopez will star in a live TV production of BYE BYE BIRDIE for NBC.

• Raven-Symoné leaving ‘The View’ for ‘That’s So Raven’ spinoff

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WILL & GRACE Stars Tease Possible Reunion Show

Debra Messing tweeted this video teaser this morning that seems to indicate there’s a Will & Grace reunion happening soon.

The title cards for the video read, ““A band of heroes WILL assemble to protect the world from aliens & destruction. Only an act of GRACE can save them in their battle for what is right. Only they can bring America back from the brink.”

See what they did there?

We shall see if the reunion ends up being a special or more. The fans of the show recently celebrated the series’ 18th anniversary of it’s launch.

As seannie said…We're BACK!!!!!" @seanhayes @meganomullally @ericmccormackA photo posted by Debra Messing (@therealdebramessing) on Sep 26, 2016 at 12:11pm PDT

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Sean Hayes: “I Regret Not Coming Out Sooner”

Former Will & Grace star Sean Hayes tells Playbill he wishes he had come out publicly during the run of the hit TV series.

“I got Will & Grace, and I thought, ‘Oh, this is different. I don’t know how to handle this. I’m not bright enough, I’m not quick enough, I don’t have the DNA to be a spokesperson for any kind of group of people.’”

“I had personal issues inside of myself that I regret.

“I regret not coming out sooner and helping more people, and I regret not coming out during the show.

“Everybody in the gay community knew I was gay, but it was this fight I had with the press because they want you to come out on their terms, and other gay people want you to come out on their terms, and if you don’t come out on their terms you’re just an asshole, and you’re wrong. Well, each individual human being has a lot of stuff that nobody knows about.

“Nobody knows what anybody else is going through at any point in their lives.”

Hayes eventually came out in 2010, four years after the end of Will & Grace.

He married his partner, Scott Icenogle, in 2014, and is currently starring on Broadway in the play An Act of God.