If you're anything like us, you've spent every day since the last Will & Grace episode slamming your head into a pile of shattered glass and shouting the word 'why' into the sky a lot.
Because, let's face it, without Will & Grace on TV, there's nobody to give third-rate, painfully unfunny walk-on parts to Madonna any more.
However, all's not lost because the creators of Will & Grace – David Kohan and Max Mutchnick – are making a new sitcom pilot about a gay person who's friends with a straight person. We can only marvel at where Kohan and Mutchnick – a gay person and a straight person who are friends and had a successful long-running sitcom about a friendship between a gay person and a straight person – got this wickedly original new idea for a TV show from.
The writers' strike, as you may have heard, is well and truly over. That's great news for the writers, and for the below the line crewmembers who'd all been forced out of a job, but less good news for us, for three reasons.
1) No striking writers means that the Oscars can carry on as normal, so it's their fault that you'll be sick of hearing about Kate Hudson's shoes come Monday morning.
2) No striking writers means that scripted drama will return to the airwaves instead of all those cheaply-produced brainless reality TV shows. That's bad, but Grey's Anatomy is far, far worse.
3) No striking writers means that the two people who invented Will & Grace are allowed to run their one semi-decent idea even further into the ground that it already was.
If you've been yearning for a return to all the Will & Grace trademark japes that have been missing from TV recently – like dreadful Britney Spears cameos and dreadful John Cleese cameos and dreadful Sharon Osbourne cameos – then you're in luck. Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick have just been ordered to make a sitcom pilot about a subject that some of you might think sounds a bit familiar. Reuters reports:
In one of the first major TV deals since the Hollywood writers strike ended last Tuesday, ABC has ordered a comedy pilot from the creators of "Will & Grace." The untitled project revolves around two men — one straight, one gay — who are lifelong best friends and business partners. Both of them are in serious romantic relationships and try to find a balance between their allegiances to each other and to their significant others.
Ah, the old gay thing again. However, despite the obvious similarities to Will & Grace, a previous pilot they wrote about a straight person and a gay person working together and Kohan and Mutchnick's own lives, this untitled sitcom will be completely different from anything they've done before because, um, none of the people in this new one will have ginger hair. And nobody will be called Will.
And this one might actually be slightly funny in places. But, you know, probably not.
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ABC and "Will & Grace" duo team on gay-themed comedy – Reuters