Will & Grace
| Will & Grace | |
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| Created by |
David Kohan Max Mutchnick |
| Directed by | James Burrows |
| Starring |
Eric McCormack Debra Messing Megan Mullally Sean Hayes Shelley Morrison |
| Theme music composer | Jonathan Wolff |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 8 |
| No. of episodes | 194 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Max Mutchnick David Kohan |
| Location(s) | Stage 17, CBS Studio Center, Los Angeles |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) | KoMut Entertainment Sister Entertainment (1998–2000) 3 Sisters Entertainment (2000–06) NBC Studios |
| Distributor |
Warner Bros. Television (U.S.) MGM International Television Distribution (International) |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Picture format |
480i (4:3 SDTV) (1998–2003) 1080i (16:9 HDTV) (2004–Present) |
| Audio format |
Stereo (1998–2003) Dolby Digital 5.1 (2004–06) |
| Original release | September 21, 1998 – May 18, 2006 |
| Website | |
Will & Grace is an American sitcom created by Max Mutchnick and David Kohan about the relationship between best friends Will Truman (Eric McCormack), a gay lawyer, and Grace Adler (Debra Messing), a straight interior designer. It was broadcast on NBC from September 21, 1998 to May 18, 2006, for a total of eight seasons. During its original run, Will & Grace was one of the most successful television series with gay principal characters.
Despite initial criticism for its particular portrayal of homosexual characters, it went on to become a staple of NBC's Must See TV Thursday night lineup and was met with continued critical acclaim. It was ensconced in the Nielsen top 20 for half of its network run. The show was the highest-rated sitcom among adults 18–49, from 2001 and 2005. Throughout its eight-year run, Will & Grace earned 16 Emmy Awards and 83 nominations. All four stars each received an Emmy Award throughout the series, making it one of only three sitcoms in the award's history to achieve this feat. In 2014 the Writers Guild of America placed the sitcom at number 94 in their list of the 101 Best Written TV series of all time. Since the final episode aired, the sitcom has been credited with helping and improving public opinion of the LGBT community, with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden commenting that the show "probably did more to educate the American public" on LGBT issues "than almost anything anybody has ever done so far". In 2014 the Smithsonian Institution added an LGBT history collection to their museum which included items from Will and Grace. The curator Dwight Blocker Bowers stated that the sitcom used "comedy to familiarize a mainstream audience with gay culture" that was "daring and broke ground" in American media.
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