Guess who's back, back again? Will & Grace are back, tell a friend.

After their pre-presidential election special sketch last year, we all got super-hyped for a potential full time revival of everyone's favourite sitcom about the unbreakable bond between sassy gay men and their hapless female friends.

youtubeView full post on Youtube

TVLine reports that NBC has ordered ten new episodes for the 2017-2018 season, which means that hopefully in around September/October time we'll be welcoming Will, Grace, Jack and (most importantly) Karen back into our lives - again.

And it gets better - series creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, as well as original-run director James Burrows, are all involved in this new batch of episodes, meaning the snarky humour should be as pin-sharp as it always has been.

Will & Grace: Megan Mullally as Karen Walker, Sean Hayes as Jack McFarland, Debra Messing as Grace Adler, Eric McCormack as Will Trumanpinterest
Chris Haston/NBCU Photo Bank

What kind of stories will we see? Will the show take shots at Donald Trump? What celebrities will cameo? Will Karen still steal every scene?

Unfortunately, as is the way with these things, only time will tell. Except for the last one, that's pretty much a given, isn't it?

Karen herself, Megan Mullally, recently stated that a revival series was exactly what was needed to make America great again.

Will & Grace: Megan Mullally as Karen Walker, Sean Hayes as Jack McFarland, Debra Messing as Grace Adler, Eric McCormack as Will Trumanpinterest
Chris Haston/NBCU Photo Bank

"It certainly couldn't be a better time," she said. "We would have carte blanche because of everything that's happening in the world right now. I think it's a really nice time for us to get back together and do some comedy."

We think that Grace needs to apologise because Beverley was RIGHT.


Don't forget to vote for your favourite TV shows in this year's National Television Awards! Shortlist voting closes at 12 midday on Wednesday, January 25.


Want up-to-the-minute entertainment and tech news? Just hit 'Like' on our Digital Spy Facebook page and 'Follow' on our @digitalspy Twitter account and you're all set.

Headshot of Joe Anderton
Joe Anderton

Joe Anderton is a freelance news writer and resident Welsh person at Digital Spy, having worked there since 2016. 

In his time he's covered a host of live events, interviewed celebrities big and small and crowbarred a countless amount of great/awful (delete as appropriate) puns into articles. 

A big fan of TV and movies both mainstream and obscure, Joe's main interest is in video gaming. Although particularly a PlayStation gamer, he plays across Xbox, Nintendo and PC/Steam Deck, and likes to keep tabs on many games he's not got the time to play.

Joe currently does not use Twitter, but he only ever used it to tell people to watch the film Help! I'm a Fish (which you really should do).