NBC’s Will & Grace revival is going to be on the network a lot longer than anyone expected. The network has already picked up an additional 13-episode season of the revival for next season. (Adweek)
NBC chairman Robert Greenblatt also confirmed Season 1 has been bumped up to a 16-episode order. (Mashable)
Original series creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan will serve as showrunners and executive producers on the revival series. James Burrows, who directed the entire eight-season run of the original Will & Grace, is back as director and executive producer on the revival. Universal Television is the studio. Will & Grace ran on NBC from 1998 to 2006, spanning more than 200 episodes. (Variety)
According to sources, Greenblatt is close to renewing his contract with NBCUniversal, which is up at the end of the year. Greenblatt has been overseeing NBC and sister studio Universal TV since January 2011, when he was handpicked by Comcast to lead the broadcast network following the company’s acquisition of NBCUniversal. (Deadline)
The network, home to freshman breakout This Is Us, is also fresh off a 2016-2017 broadcast season that saw it capture the crown among the advertiser-coveted adults 18-49 demographic for the third time in the past four years—without the Super Bowl or the Olympics. (NBC will have the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics in the 2017-2018 season as it appears poised to win both the demo and total viewers.) (THR / Live Feed)