Will & Grace 

Will and Grace live together in an apartment in New York City. He's a gay lawyer, she's a straight interior designer. Their best friends are Jack, a gleeful but proud gay man, and Karen, a charismatic, filthy rich, amoral socialite.

Creators:

David Kohan, Max Mutchnick

Stars:

Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally

Nominated for 29 Golden Globes. Another 76 wins & 236 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Eric McCormack	...	Will Truman 223 episodes, 1998-2018
Debra Messing	...	Grace Adler 223 episodes, 1998-2018
Megan Mullally	...	Karen Walker 223 episodes, 1998-2018
Sean Hayes	...	Jack McFarland 223 episodes, 1998-2018

Storyline

Will and Grace are best friends. Will is a gay lawyer and Grace is a straight interior designer. They both live in New York City. Grace is engaged to a real jerk, but when that relationship falls apart, she moves in with Will. This is only supposed to be until Grace finds a place of her own, but she and Will end up with each other as permanent roommates. Also in the cast are Jack, Will's flamboyant gay friend, and Karen, Grace's secretary and assistant, who doesn't really need to work because she married money several times.

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Plot Keywords:

gay | best friend | gay friend | lawyer | new york city | 

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Taglines:

All in it together. Again.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Official Sites:

NBC

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 September 1998 (USA)

Also Known As:

Will and Grace

Filming Locations:

Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

KoMut Entertainment, Three Princesses and a P, Three Sisters Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

22 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Veronica Cartwright and Suzanne Pleshette respectively played the mothers of Jack and Karen. Cartwright and Pleshette appeared in The Birds (1963).

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Goofs

In the series, Will's apartment has a balcony, but the outside shot of the building shows no balconies. In fact, the actual building at 155 Riverside Drive has no balconies.

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Quotes

Will: Grace, go to bed. You obviously have had a very busy day of crazy.

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Connections

Referenced in Another Brief Moment (2010)

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Soundtracks

(Theme)
Composed by Jonathan Wolff

User Reviews

Classic Sit-Com Who Broke Grounds,but Lost its Touch Along the Way.

Who would have thought that a show with not one, but two gay leads would hit the TVs across America and ensure its place among must-see TV Thursdays (albeit being shown Tuesdays in its first season and eventually displacing FRASIER) while also garnering critical reviews and numerous Emmys? WILL AND GRACE came and un-intentionally filled the void that ELLEN and her gay oriented sitcom left, keeping the sexuality quietly placed in the background while focusing on the quartet's dysfunctional and often crazy antics (except for some truly clever in-jokes that only gay men and women could catch). Fast moving dialogue, truly innovative slapstick and a balanced out cast created one of the best shows in the last five years, one that had an interesting DICK VAN DYKE SHOW feel, and even if the first season was a little bit clunky at times and some of the comedic situations seemed clearly forced for laughs, it worked.

Lately the show has taken something of a dip in quality. Season 5 reached an early peak in November sweeps with Grace's marriage to Leo Markus, and trying to establish a long term relationship with Will and Barry proved fruitless as it was truly unfunny. Season 6 proved dismal in many ways, from the writing which was not delivering good jokes, to Debra Messing's forced absence due to her pregnancy which took the balance out of the story lines, to Jack and Karen's essences being dumbed down to make them look more like morons in search for a quick laugh, to situations which seemed repetitive and even unfocused. Then Season 7's dismal beginning, with episodes featuring Jennifer Lopez and Janet Jackson essentially doing nothing to bring any comedy to the sitcom questioned would the series be canceled sooner than not, but lately it has been getting back on track, putting the mega-guest stars aside for some actual comedy. Characters are a little more defined, less cartoonish, and situations don't seem as tiredly funny as they were during the aforementioned slump, and whether the show goes on for another season or two I hope that it will go back to how it began, with frenzied humor and sharp lines which was how it got its trademark. It is still a great show and one that deserves the best presentation NBC has to offer.