‘Murphy Brown’ Team on Revival ‘Through the Prism of the Press’ and #MeToo Episode

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When “Murphy Brown” returns with its revival season on CBS this fall, it will be focused “through the prism of the press,” says creator Diane English.

“We’ve always been a political show with something to say,” she said at the Television Critics Assn. press tour panel for the show Sunday. “The first amendment and free press is under attack like I’ve never seen before…and these guys are the press, so we deal with that a lot.”

The idea to return to the show was first floated in 2012, English shared, “when Sarah Palin was running for president.” “We thought we only had six episodes, and it wasn’t a serious idea at all,” she said. But then after the presidential election in 2016, Warner Bros. Television president Peter Roth called her to ask if she’d bring it back. While she admitted the idea was “daunting,” once she said yes, the story “came pouring out of me.”

Read more at Variety

Author: mike