WILL & GRACE
COMEDY / ROMANTIC COMEDY
USA
1998-2020
WILL & GRACE is an American sitcom television series created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan. The show aired 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 was one of the most successful television series featuring gay main characters. WILL & GRACE consists of 246 episodes of 22 minutes.
STORY: 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.
GAY COUPLE STORYLINE 1: Will (Eric McCormack) is a gay man who is a successful corporate lawyer and attended Columbia University, where he met Grace as a freshman; they have been best friends ever since. Even though Will is gay, he sometimes tries to pass as straight; he has avoided admitting his sexual orientation to people. His love interests include Michael (Chris Potter), Scott Sender (Branden Brent Williams), Matthew (Patrick Dempsey), James Hanson (Taye Diggs), Vince D'Angelo (Bobby Cannavale), and news anchor McCoy Whitman (Matt Bomer). The latter seems the best for Will, as they profess their love for each other. However, that happy ending is cut short when McCoy is sent abroad.
Will Truman (Eric McCormack) & McCoy Whitman (Matt Bomer)
ERIC McCORMACK (1998-2020) April 18, 1963, Toronto, Canada
MATT BOMER (2018-2020) October 1, 1977, Webster Groves, MO, USA
GAY COUPLE STORYLINE 2: Jack McFarland (Sean Hayes) has been Will's close friend since college. Jack has been flamboyantly gay, confident and free-spirited, from an early age. He jumps from man to man and often changes professions, being very capricious. He has worked as a struggling actor, acting instructor, backing dancer for Jennifer Lopez and Janet Jackson, Jack made four one-man shows (named Just Jack, Jack 2000, Jack 2001 and Jack 2002) to showcase his singing /dance/ acting ability; all attempts have only marginal success. Brian Jordan Alvarez portrays flight attendant Estefan, Jack's new fiancé.
Jack McFarland (Sean Hayes) & Estefan Gloria (Brian Jordan Alvarez)
SEAN HAYES (1998-2020) June 26, 1970, Glen Ellyn, IL, USA
BRIAN JORDAN ALAREZ (2018-2020) July 10, 1987, New York City, NY, USA
SPECIAL: As vice president, Joe Biden has noted that the show has "probably done more to educate the American public" about LGBT issues "than almost anything anyone has ever done to date". During the original run, Will & Grace was filmed in front of a live studio audience (most episodes and scenes) on Tuesday night, at Stage 17 at CBS Studio Center.
AWARDS: ‘WILL & GRACE’ won 18 Primetime Emmys. 99 wins & 318 nominations.
7.2 IMDB
