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Nov 1, 2020 · According to ScreenRant, plans for the spinoff were cut short. Why? Because the network was leery to greenlight another spinoff after Joey had failed to produce the expected results.
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Feb 24, 2023 · Will & Grace star Megan Mullally has confirmed that a spin-off focusing on her character Karen Walker nearly got made back in the mid-2000s. Mullally played Grace’s (Debra Messing)...
Feb 23, 2023 · Megan Mullally Reveals a Karen Spinoff Was in the Works After Will & Grace Revival. Megan Mullally honored her late Will & Grace co-star Leslie Jordan and discussed her iconic character,...
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ThisM*A*S*H spinoff had as complicated a broadcast history as plot backstory. Gary Burghoff, who’d played the loveable Cpl. Radar O’Reilly at the 4077, provided a bit of background for his upcoming solo series during a special guest appearance on an episode of yet another ill-fated spinoff, AfterM*A*S*H. There we learned that Radar’s (oops – he mad...
The proposed Facts of Life spinoff had several working titles but never made it past the two-part Facts of Lifefinale entitled “The Beginning of the Beginning.” It was to be a vehicle for Lisa Whelchel, whose snooty Blair Warner character would buy the financially troubled Eastland School and become its new headmistress.
Scott Valentine was introduced as Nick Moore, Mallory’s love interest on Family Ties, during the series’ fourth season. Nick was a retro-hippie “environmental” artist who made sculptures out of garbage and whose grungy appearance and lack of scholastic ambition was a sore point with Steven, Elyse and Alex. Audience reaction to Nick was so positive ...
This proposed Will and Grace spinoff didn’t get as far as the pilot stage, but it was all mapped out on paper. Megan Mullally would star as Karen Walker in her mansion and most of the comedy would be the interaction between her and her servants (one of which was slated to be a butler played by Martin Short). NBC got cold feet, though, after the lac...
During the 11th season of My Three Sons there was an attempt to spin off eldest son, Robbie (played by Don Grady), his wife Katie (Tina Cole) and their triplet boys onto their own series. In the pilot episode, Robbie was laid off from work and moved his family to San Francisco to accept a new job. After the Honeymoon wasn’t picked up, and Grady did...
The original premise of One Day at a Time– a divorcée struggling to raise two daughters as a single mom – was all but forgotten by Season Nine. Ann Romano had remarried and moved to London and both her daughters had grown up and gotten married. Who was left to spin off into their own series? Schneider, the building superintendent, of course. In the...
Relations between Marla Gibbs and Jackie Harry were rather tense by the fourth season of 227, mainly because Jackee’s character, Sandra, had become the breakout star of the series. Harry filmed a pilot which aired in 1989 in which Sandra moved to New York to accept a job at a film studio. When it turned out that the studio in question made adult fi...
Ooh! Ooh! Guess which Sweathog almost graduated from Mr. Kotter’s class to his own series? The episode of Welcome Back Kotter entitled “There Goes Number 5” was the pilot for an Arnold Horshack series in which the geeky student becomes a surrogate father to his younger siblings after his mother’s fifth husband dies. ABC ultimately decided to green ...
A proposed spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show featured Gomer’s cousin Goober moving from Mayberry to Atlanta with his sister, Pearl, to open a truck stop café. The network passed on it, so Goob stayed on at Wally’s Filling Station all the way through Mayberry RFD.
A two-part episode of Who’s The Boss?was a pilot for a proposed series starring Katherine Helmond. Mona goes to visit her never-before-mentioned brother Cornelius at a hotel he’s recently purchased. Even though the place turned out to be a decrepit money pit, Mona decided to stay on and co-manage it with him. That is, until ABC gave it the thumbs-d...
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- WILL AND GRACE WERE BASED ON THE SERIES' CO-CREATOR AND HIS CHILDHOOD FRIEND. Max Mutchnick and David Kohan were inspired by Mutchnick’s friendship with voiceover casting agency owner Janet Eisenberg.
- IT WAS ORIGINALLY PITCHED AS AN ENSEMBLE SHOW WITH STRAIGHT COUPLES. The only relationship NBC executive Warren Littlefield was interested in, however, was the one with the gay man living with the straight woman.
- THE SHOW TITLE CAME FROM A BOOK. The two creators named the show Will & Grace based on a concept in the Jewish philosophy book I and Thou by Martin Buber, in which he says that one needs the "will" to go after the presence of the Eternal and the "grace" to receive it.
- KOHAN AND MUTCHNICK DID THEIR RESEARCH. While waiting to hear about the fate of their show after submitting their pilot script, the two men sent Warren Littlefield faxes listing the box office numbers of The Birdcage and My Best Friend’s Wedding, two hit movies featuring gay characters.
Will & Grace: Created by David Kohan, Max Mutchnick. With Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, Sean Hayes. Gay lawyer Will and straight interior designer Grace share a New York City apartment. Their best friends are gleeful and proud gay Jack and charismatic, filthy-rich, amoral socialite Karen.
Apr 26, 2020 · The creators of 'Will & Grace' share their thoughts on a Season 12 renewal. Would they be willing to do more episodes on NBC?
