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SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the finale of NBC's Will & Grace Will and Grace have left their apartment for the final time. "We've always just been Will and Grace," says Debra Messing's Grace. "That's ok. Maybe we've been Will and Grace long enough," adds Eric McCormack's Will. Then just as the pair…

In the summer of 2016, Will & Grace co-creator Max Mutchnick was on a trip to London when he told his husband how frustrated he was with the election and how powerless he felt. He lamented that if Will & Grace was still on, they would've found a way to talk about it. He even pitched a couple of jokes. His husband…

Will & Grace showrunner Max Mutchnick loves John Oliver’s A Day In The Life Of Marlon Bundo children’s book. So much so, that he’s decided to donate the book to every grammar school in Indiana. In a tweet, Mutchnick writes that he was “blown away” by the book. In a letter addressed to “Every Grammar School Library in…

In a synergistic campaign around the return of Will & Grace , NBC parent Comcast is making an original, behind-the-scenes companion series available on its X1 cable platform as well as its YouTube channel. Inside Stage 22 with Max and David, an Xfinity Originals Series, is named after the studio where the sitcom is…

They’re definitely back. The Will & Grace gang wasted no time at the Tribeca TV Festival before jumping into the present and taking a swipe at Donald Trump — just as quickly and easily as they seem to have fallen back into old their roles. David Kohan, asked how he’d react if Trump called him “a son of a bitch” — that…

NBC is bringing back Will & Grace might seem a sort of peace offering for having turned a reality TV star into the man who became our country’s current and least popular president ever, Donald Trump. Originally picked up in January for a 10-episode limited installment, the Emmy-winning comedy this morning got its…

On the heels of NBC ordering a new season of Max Mutchnick and David Kohan’s Will & Grace, the network has given a pilot order to Happy Peppers, a multi-camera comedy from Mutchnick and fellow sitcom veteran, Friends alum Jeff Astrof. This is a very quick turnaround for the project, which was initially developed at…

Comedy veterans Max Mutchnick and Jeff Astrof have partnered to write and executive produce The Happy Peppers, a multi-camera comedy that has been set up at CBS. Warner Bros TV, where both Mutchnick and Astrof are under overall deals, is the studio. The Happy Peppers is about Henry and Emily, an adult brother and…

Will and Grace and Boston Common creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan are back with a new sitcom for TBS. Clipped follows a group of former high school classmates from wildly different cliques who find themselves working together at a Boston (Charlestown, specifically) barbershop. Think plenty of social conflict and…

HBO has put in development Quick Shots Of False Hope, a single-camera comedy from Will & Grace co-creator Max Mutchnick and actress-comedian-writer Laura Kightlinger based on Kightlinger’s memoir Quick Shots of False Hope: A Rejection Collection. This marks Mutchnick’s first project under his new banner Too Mutch Ink…

Fox is developing a multi-camera comedy from Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick. It revolves around a single mother, her three kids and her ex-grifter father who move from their home in New Jersey to Los Angeles to start a new life — though she probably should have told the kids. Kohan and Mutchnick…

Cheers alum George Wendt and Ashley Tisdale are set to co-star in David Kohan and Max Mutchnick‘s multi-camera untitled barbershop comedy pilot at TBS. Also cast in the untitled workplace comedy is Lauren Lapkus (Orange Is the New Black). The project revolves around a group of kids who ran in different circles in high…