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The return of Murphy Brown will not be returning to CBS. The network officially canceled the Candice Bergen-led series Friday after weeks of speculation on a possible eleventh-hour comeback. In the second wave of revival fever fueling networks in recent years, the Emmy winning show returned to CBS last September…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight’s season and likely series finale of Murphy Brown If the revived Murphy Brown is really and truly ending for good with tonight's Season 11 finale, creator Diane English made sure the Emmy winning journalism comedy went out with a mix of fictionalized bigwigs and…

Murphy Brown star Candice Bergen thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for her 12th Golden Globes nomination, calling it a “wonderful acknowledgement of my work in a show we are all so proud of bringing back this year.” But, giving credit where credit is due, Bergen on Thursday also acknowledged “it would…

Candice Bergen this morning received her 12th Golden Globe nomination for her starring role in CBS’ de facto 11th season of Murphy Brown, returning more than two decades after wrap of the comedy series’ most recent prior season. Bergen’s nomination tipped the scale in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Television…

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of the revival of Murphy Brown, debuting tomorrow on CBS. This review originally ran on September 26 Shined up with tweets about dating Donald Trump, fourth-wall-cracking quips and Roseanne implosion asides, the revival of Murphy Brown is very meta. Yet despite those lofty…

CBS is giving Murphy Brown an extra five minutes for the revived series’ Sept. 27 premiere, the network announced today. The “extended” episode begins at 9:30 pm ET/PT, and runs until 10:05. (The hourlong S.W.A.T., will air in full immediately after Murphy, from 10:05-11:05; The Late Show With Stephen Colbert begins…

Murphy Brown creator Diane English says she may need to get security protection as she works on the return to CBS of the biting political comedy series. "I might have to have some protection,” English told reporters in a scrum after her show's Q&A panel at TCA. “I'm not kidding." English referenced the "scary times"…

CBS and Murphy Brown have sent out a first-look video of Candice Bergen, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud and the rest of the returning gang sitting down for their first table read in 20 years. The table read, held in New York on Tuesday, July 24, was also the first time the entire cast saw the recreated sets. The emotional…

For that part of the moviegoing audience that might be over age 25 — or even, say, 50 — it just doesn’t get much better than having a quartet like Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen together in one smart, funny, warm and wonderful movie. Book Club, as I say in my video review (click the link…

After cashing in with left-field horror hit A Quiet Place earlier this spring, Paramount is hoping to keep the mojo working with the May 18 release of Book Club. Today’s release of the new, “final” trailer for the women-of-a-certain-age comedy gets straight to the point (see video above). “Every so often,” the…

The gang is back together again. The cast of CBS’ upcoming Murphy Brown revival has reunited and we’re seeing them for the first time. Star Candice Bergen posted the photo Thursday night on Instagram with a caption reading “MURPHY BROWN…together again. Coming to your neighborhood TV in the fall. Just in time…” Check…

One of the biggest castings questions for the Murphy Brown reboot — who will play Murphy’s grown-up son Avery — has been answered. Former Limitless star Jake McDorman has been tapped for the role opposite Candice Bergen in CBS’ current-day revival of the 1988 sitcom. Nik Dodani (Atypical) also is set for a key series…