It’s been 11 years.
The Will & Grace revival is going to completely erase the series finale.
The beloved sitcom ended in 2006 with Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Messing) having drifted apart and living separate lives – with Will and his husband Vince raising their son Ben, while Grace had a daughter named Laila with her husband Leo.
And while the time jump revealed that Will and Grace eventually became best pals again, that decades long separation proved to be too difficult for producers to bring into the revival.
Executive producer/creator Max Mutchnick told Entertainment Weekly: “We spent most of our time trying to figure out what would be the way to make the show the best version of itself coming back after 11 years.
“That finale really caused us a lot of grief. You write a finale because a show is over. You never think that it’s coming back again.”
Executive producer/creator David Kohan added: “When the decision was made to bring the series back, we were like, well, we left them with kids, right?
“And if they have children, then it has to be about them being parents, ‘cause presumably it would be a priority in their lives.
“And if it wasn’t a priority in their lives, then they’re still parents, they’re just bad parents, right?
“We frankly did not want to see them being either good parents or bad parents. We wanted them to be Will and Grace.”
And the revival has already been picked up for a season two – weeks before the first one even premieres.
In even more good news for fans, the hotly anticipated season one will now be 16 episodes, rather than 12.
