While the "Will and Grace" revival is not expected to arrive earlier than this year's fall TV season premiere, fans of the NBC comedy have another reason to celebrate as the network has announced that the returning comedy series will have 12 episodes instead of the 10 that was announced early this year.
It was in January this year when NBC dropped the good news to avid "Will and Grace" fans who, despite the series airing its last episode 10 years ago, can't seem to get over the hit and Emmy-award winning comedy. While it was announced earlier that "Will and Grace" season 9 would have 10 episodes, it has been reported that NBC wants to have more of it as it ordered two more additional episodes for the upcoming comedy series revival. According to reports, NBC is counting on the revived comedy series to spike its standing in the ratings game as "Will and Grace" was the focus of NBCUniversal's upfront spot reveal recently.
To recall, the revival of "Will and Grace" stemmed from a mini-episode that focused on election theme shown in September last year. While NBC did not have a hand on the production of the said episode, talks about "Will and Grace" to be revived soon started circulating until the network finally announced that it is, indeed, in the pipeline.
The said election-themed mini-episode gathered back the original cast members, including Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, and Sean Hayes, as they reprised their respective characters in a story penned by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan.
The episode was filmed at the basement of the original location of the said comedy series.
"Will and Grace" holds the notion for being the first mainstream TV series to feature LGBT characters as its lead. While the series was praised for its braveness in taking a paradigm shift, it also had its share of criticisms for its brand of comedy that promoted unfavorable stereotyping at times.
The series won a total of 16 Emmy trophies during its run for eight seasons.
