Will & Grace is an American sitcom television series created by Max
Mutchnick and David Kohan. Set in New York City, the show focuses on
the friendship between best friends Will Truman (Eric McCormack), a
gay lawyer, and Grace Adler (Debra Messing), a straight interior
designer. The show was broadcast on NBC from September 21, 1998, to
May 18, 2006, for a total of eight seasons, and returned to NBC on
September 28, 2017 and ended on April 23, 2020. Will & Grace has been
one of the most successful television series with gay principal
characters.Despite initial criticism for its stereotypical portrayal
of gay characters, it went on to become a staple of NBC's Must See TV
Thursday night lineup and was met with continued critical acclaim. It
was ensconced in the Nielsen top 20 for half of its 1998â€"2006
network run. The show was the highest-rated sitcom among adults
18â€"49 from 2001 to 2005. Will & Grace earned 18 Primetime Emmy
Awards and 83 nominations. Each main actor received an Emmy Award
throughout the series. In 2014 the Writers Guild of America placed the
sitcom at number 94 in their list of the 101 best-written TV series of
all time. Since the final episode of the 1998â€"2006 run aired, the
sitcom has been credited with helping and improving public opinion of
the LGBT community, with former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden
commenting that the show "probably did more to educate the American
public" on LGBT issues "than almost anything anybody has ever done so
far". In 2014, the Smithsonian Institution added an LGBT history
collection to their museum which included items from Will & Grace. The
curator Dwight Blocker Bowers stated that the sitcom used "comedy to
familiarize a mainstream audience with gay culture" in a way that was
"daring and broke ground" in American media.During its original run,
Will & Grace was filmed in front of a live studio audience (most
episodes and scenes) on Tuesday nights, at Stage 17 in CBS Studio
Center. Will and Grace's apartment was put on display at the Emerson
College Library, donated by series creator Max Mutchnick. When the set
was removed in 2014, rumors came up about a cast reunion, but the
actors involved denied that such a reunion was planned, explaining it
was merely being moved. A long-running legal battle between both the
original executive producers and creators and NBC took place between
2003 and 2007.
Mutchnick and David Kohan. Set in New York City, the show focuses on
the friendship between best friends Will Truman (Eric McCormack), a
gay lawyer, and Grace Adler (Debra Messing), a straight interior
designer. The show was broadcast on NBC from September 21, 1998, to
May 18, 2006, for a total of eight seasons, and returned to NBC on
September 28, 2017 and ended on April 23, 2020. Will & Grace has been
one of the most successful television series with gay principal
characters.Despite initial criticism for its stereotypical portrayal
of gay characters, it went on to become a staple of NBC's Must See TV
Thursday night lineup and was met with continued critical acclaim. It
was ensconced in the Nielsen top 20 for half of its 1998â€"2006
network run. The show was the highest-rated sitcom among adults
18â€"49 from 2001 to 2005. Will & Grace earned 18 Primetime Emmy
Awards and 83 nominations. Each main actor received an Emmy Award
throughout the series. In 2014 the Writers Guild of America placed the
sitcom at number 94 in their list of the 101 best-written TV series of
all time. Since the final episode of the 1998â€"2006 run aired, the
sitcom has been credited with helping and improving public opinion of
the LGBT community, with former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden
commenting that the show "probably did more to educate the American
public" on LGBT issues "than almost anything anybody has ever done so
far". In 2014, the Smithsonian Institution added an LGBT history
collection to their museum which included items from Will & Grace. The
curator Dwight Blocker Bowers stated that the sitcom used "comedy to
familiarize a mainstream audience with gay culture" in a way that was
"daring and broke ground" in American media.During its original run,
Will & Grace was filmed in front of a live studio audience (most
episodes and scenes) on Tuesday nights, at Stage 17 in CBS Studio
Center. Will and Grace's apartment was put on display at the Emerson
College Library, donated by series creator Max Mutchnick. When the set
was removed in 2014, rumors came up about a cast reunion, but the
actors involved denied that such a reunion was planned, explaining it
was merely being moved. A long-running legal battle between both the
original executive producers and creators and NBC took place between
2003 and 2007.
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