'Will & Grace' set for three more years
16:35 BST, Monday 2nd August 2004 -- by Neil Wilkes

The creators of Will & Grace have revealed that time will probably be called on the sitcom after nine seasons.

The news means that the show - which centres around best friends Will Truman and Grace Adler - could be on air until 2007. The seventh season is currently in production and will air in the US from September.

"I would think that nine seasons is certainly enough," co-creator Max Mutchnick told the Media Guardian today. "When we first wrote the thing it couldn't be more than six seasons because you hope these characters move on in life. But it becomes a machine, it becomes bigger than you are."

Mutchnick added that he hoped the show would finally end with Will, Grace and their off-the-wall friends Jack McFarland and Karen Walker finally managing to settle down. "I hope that when it does end it ends because everybody's fallen in love. That's the good and the bad of the show. It can keep going until they all meet 'the one'."

Several changes are being planned for the upcoming season to keep the series fresh.




OK. This is certainly great news for everyone who is a big W&G fan like myself. However I really think this show has some more juice in them after all.

I certainly would like to say that I am sorry espicially to W&G Fanatic and HuningtonM15 for making such bad comments for Will & Grace. I just hope all is forgiven! Once again I'm sorry. I really do hope Will & Grace really makes ends meet such as with That '70s Show and King of the Hill which both are signed on throgh 2006 being that Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher really decide to sign on through the 8th season!

However, to make W&G more exciting, they just need to lessen the stunt casting and the cameos on every show. That is why to make W&G funny again, and the new showrunners, these are the great changes that needs to be made for the show itself. If not, then Goodbye W&G next season and you can forget about seeing this article come true because the optimism must have been tempered with. Anyway, good luck for the whole cast of W&G this upcoming season!!:D

Yeah I just seen the season finnaly for last season and it was so funny...this show has not lost its creativity like some people say...

It's too soon for Will & Grace to end, IMHO! NBC has canceled enough sitcoms this year, so I hope W&G will still be standing tall:)


Feen

We'll while it is good for will & Grace to continue, it looks very shaky for their sister show, That '70s Show.
That '70s" Era Over?

by Lia Haberman
Jan 29, 2004, 2:00 PM PT



Stash the Tab, eight-tracks and Vista Cruiser. The '70s are over.

Common knowledge to the rest of us, the time warp's just catching up to the cast of Fox's That '70s Show.


Cast members Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher are not expected to return after their seventh, and apparently final, season in 2005, according to several reports.

During interviews to promote his new film, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, Grace told reporters that he and Kutcher were going to quit after the current season but decided to stick around an extra year.

And they're not the only ones who want the leisure suit decade to come to a close. "We're doing one more year and after that then we will probably be done," costar Wilmer Valderrama, told the New York Post. "After seven years of doing the same character, you sort of want to take a break."

The cast's contracts expire after the 2004-05 season.

Not willing to comment on the reports, a Fox spokesperson said, "It's been picked up through next year but nothing's been decided beyond that."

The sitcom, revolving around Wisconsin teen Eric Forman and his wacky family and friends, debuted in 1998. While never a top 10 Nielsen placer, the show has consistently attracted coveted young viewers.

More than anything, the laffer's served as a springboard for Kutcher and Grace.

Hailed as the show's breakout star, Kutcher's parlayed his small-screen success into feature film roles, his own reality series and a relationship with Demi Moore.

While the Dude Where's My Car? star pulled the plug on MTV's Punk'd this year he is expected to return to the music network with another improv series, My New Best Friend, later this year.

Currently starring in the dark thriller The Butterfly Effect, Kutcher had the last laugh when his movie, widely panned, came in first at the box office, debuting with a take of $17 million last weekend.

Grace, the TV show's leading man, didn't fare as well in the box-office battle against Butterfly. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! also opened last weekend but failed to pull in more than $7 million.

But, in general, Grace has received more critical acclaim for his acting chops in movies such as Traffic and Mona Lisa Smile.

He recently wrapped the romantic comedy P.S. opposite Laura Linney, which he'll follow up with Synergy, a movie written and directed by Chris and Paul Weitz (About a Boy). The comedy, which begins production in March, also stars Dennis Quaid and Scarlett Johansson.