Will & Grace

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Television series
German title Will & Grace
Original title Will & Grace
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 1998–2006
since 2017
length 23 minutes
Episodes 231+ in 11 seasons ( list )
genre Sitcom
idea David Kohan
Max Mutchnick
production David Kohan
James Burrows
Max Mutchnick
music Jonathan Wolff
Paul Buckley
First broadcast September 21, 1998 (USA) on NBC
German-language
first broadcast		 September 1, 2001 on ProSieben
occupation
synchronization

Will & Grace is an American sitcom primarily about homosexuality as a social phenomenon, which was produced in eight seasons by NBC from 1998 to 2006 . In the German-speaking area, seasons one to seven were first broadcast on ProSieben from September 2001 to 2005 , the eighth season only from October 2008 on Sat.1 .

In early January 2017, NBC announced that it was producing a sixteen-part ninth season of the series. In October 2017, a thirteen-part tenth season was ordered. In 2018, the tenth season was increased from thirteen episodes to eighteen. In May 2018, an eleventh season with eighteen episodes was also ordered, for the period 2019-2020. On July 25, 2019, NBC announced that the upcoming eleventh season will be the last and thus the end of the series of Will & Grace.

action

prehistory

Students Will Truman and Grace Adler met during their first semester at Columbia University in New York City and soon became a couple. Although Will is urged by their mutual friend Jack McFarland to confess his repressed homosexuality and finally to come out , the couple get engaged a little later. This has fatal consequences: During the engagement party , Will Grace reveals that he is homosexual. This then throws him out of the house and ends all contact with him. It wasn't until Grace and Will met by chance in the supermarket the following year that they were reconciled and they decided to remain friends.

Main storyline

At the beginning of the series, Grace, who now works as an interior designer and is looking for new accommodation with her boyfriend Danny after the broken wedding, decides to move into Will's apartment on the Upper West Side . Despite various differences of opinion, the two learn to come to terms with each other even in the smallest of spaces.

Frequent visitors to the household of the two are both Jack, who now works as an actor and later moves into the apartment across the street, and Grace's assistant, the alcohol and pill-addicted millionaire wife Karen Walker.

characters

Will Truman

is a gay attorney who loves cleaning and is a control freak. Although he stands by his homosexuality, he doesn't show it as openly as Jack. He is often embarrassed about Jack's behavior.

Grace Adler

is an interior designer and runs an office in the Puck Building called Grace Adler Designs . She likes to eat and is very interested in fashion . Often times she can be very neurotic and selfish.

Jack McFarland

is Will's best friend and the one who once got him to profess his homosexuality. He pretty much fulfills every cliché of the funky gay and behaves mostly loud and over the top. He doesn't work regularly and considers himself a gifted singer , dancer, and actor .

Karen Walker

is an alcoholic, likes to throw in a "lucky pill" from her pharmacist and is the otherwise carefree wife of the millionaire Stan Walker. She “works” in Grace's office, but appears erratically and does nothing but make fun of Grace's taste, her hair, or her relationship with her “husband” Will. Grace only employs her because of her social contacts with high society . Since she is also very superficial, she gets along very well with Jack.

Rosario Salazar

is Karen's housemaid . She comes from El Salvador and briefly marries Jack for her green card . Karen is very important because it her Paroli offers and nothing can be said of it.

Cast and dubbing

The German synchronization was for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Axel Malzacher by the synchronous company TaurusMedia Synchron GmbH in Munich (season 1-4) and Arena Synchron GmbH in Berlin (season 5-8).

Main cast

role actor Voice actor Season
Will Truman Eric McCormack Florian Halm 1−11
Grace Adler Debra Messing Christine Stichler 1−11
Jack McFarland Sean Hayes Axel Malzacher 1−11
Karen Walker Megan Mullally Inez Günther 1−11
Rosario Salazar Shelley Morrison Ilona Grandke 2−9

Guest actor

In fictional roles

Than herself

Episode list

Awards

Over the course of eight years of production, the sitcom, its cast, guest actors and crew have been nominated for a total of over 230 awards, including 83 Emmys and 27 Golden Globes . Eric McCormack, Debra Messing and Sean Hayes were each awarded an Emmy; Megan Mullally received her second Emmy in 2006 for her portrayal of Karen. Since then, Will & Grace has been one of only three sitcoms, along with All in the Family and the Golden Girls , whose main characters have all been awarded an Emmy.

With three Screen Actors Guild Awards each, Hayes and Mullally also hold the record for the most award-winning actors in the categories of Best Male TV Actor and Best Female TV Actress, respectively . Despite more than two dozen nominations, the series failed to win a Golden Globe between 2000 and 2006.

Won

Rose d'Or

  • Bronze Rose - Sitcom / USA (2000)

Emmy Awards

  • Best Comedy Series (2000)
  • Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Sean Hayes (2000)
  • Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Megan Mullally (2000, 2006)
  • Best Actor in a Comedy Series - Eric McCormack (2001)
  • Best Director in a Multi-Camera Series - Glenda Rovello (2001, 2002, 2003)
  • Best Cinematography in a Multi-Camera Series - Tony Askins (2001, 2002, 2003, 2005)
  • Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Debra Messing (2003)
  • Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series - Gene Wilder (2003)
  • Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series - Bobby Cannavale (2005)
  • Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series - Leslie Jordan (2006)

Trivia

  • Nicollette Sheridan ( Desperate Housewives , Agent 00 - With the License to Smile ) and Alexis Arquette ( Last Exit Brooklyn ) were among the contenders for the role of Grace.
  • Megan Mullally had been offered the role of Carrie in King of Queens at the same time ; however, she turned down the offer in favor of Will & Grace .
  • Stan, Karen's husband, was never "in person" on the series.
  • The originally planned role of Higgins, Will's friend, was removed from the scripts shortly before the first episode aired.
  • The series is set in New York City , but was shot mostly in a Hollywood studio. In addition to recurring individual establishing shots (e.g. of the apartment building on Riverside Drive, where Will lives, or the Puck Building, where Grace works), exterior shots in New York City were only filmed in a few episodes (for example, Acting Out from second season).
  • In season 8, two episodes (including the first episode) were not only filmed live in front of an audience as usual, but were even broadcast live. Since the United States spans multiple time zones, these live episodes were performed twice, three hours apart; on the corresponding DVD there is the "East Coast version", which shows the east coast performance.
  • In 2002/2003 Debra Messing was pregnant with her son, but this is not mentioned in the series, but rather disguised with clothing and jokes about food addiction.
  • Sean Hayes ( the best comes at last , Soul Men ), who plays the gay Jack, is gay in real life too. He first publicly acknowledged his sexuality in 2010. At the time of his application and shooting, this fact was not known to the producers.
  • John Barrowman ( Torchwood / Doctor Who , Arrow ) auditioned for the lead role of Will in 1997. The actor, who was openly gay at the time and who has been living with his current husband since 1993, was finally rejected after several successful recalls in the so-called Producers' Call (producers have the last word in the final round against Eric McCormack) on the grounds that he “doesn't work” gay enough ”for the role. The producers preferred (in the case of Hayes only supposedly) heterosexual actors who, through deliberately exaggerated performances, corresponded more closely to the cliché of gay men.
  • For a long time, the makers resisted the statement that homosexuality was a main theme of the series. David Kohan stated that the Ellen series paved the way for Will & Grace , but that the focus there has developed from pure funny and light comedy to a show with a certain educational claim. He never wanted to lose sight of comedy, on the other hand, by only approaching controversial topics such as societal dealings with homosexuality in small steps, if at all. Instead of embarking on socio-political terrain, according to the title, they want to concentrate entirely on the "love story" between Will and Grace.
  • Will & Grace will subsequently appear in My Alex in the series Scrubs by Dr. Cox ( John C. McGinley ) used as an insult.

DVD publications

The first 8 seasons were published in German between 2007 and 2016. The series u. a. in the US, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and the Netherlands. The ninth season was released in German on October 18, 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cindy McLennan: Will & Grace: Special Ninth Season Ordered by NBC (teaser) . In: tvseriesfinale.com . January 18, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Will & Grace. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on June 21, 2014 .
  3. ^ Norbert Blech: "Will & Grace" star comes out . queer.de . March 9, 2010. Retrieved July 16, 2012.
  4. ↑ Gay Doctor Who star was too straight for Will and Grace
  5. ^ First trailer released for Will & Grace revival