Will and Grace: Series 3

Starring: Debra Messing, Eric McCormack Director: James Burrows Original UK Premiere: 2001 Dvd Release: 22nd September, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Will & Grace is an American television situation comedy focusing on Will Truman, a gay corporate attorney & his best friend Grace Adler, a straight woman who runs her own interior design business. The show debuted on the NBC network in 1998 & steadily gained in popularity, culminating when it moved to Thursday night as part of NBCs Must-Back in college, Will & Grace were actually boyfriend & girlfriend, with Will in denial about his sexuality. However, with the counsel of his new friend Jack McFarland, Will finally came out to Grace during a Thanksgiving weekend at her family home in 1985. Grace was shocked, hurt & angry at the time, throwing him out of the house, but a year later they finally reconciled & renewed their friendship. When the show debuted, the pair had just started living as roommates in New York City after Grace had come out of a long-term relationship which ended badly & needed an apartment.

This DVD contains four Will & Grace episodes: Brothers, A Love Story, My Uncle The Car, & the two-parter Cheaters. My Uncle the Car is the weakest episode here; not enough funny lines & a disappointing cameo from Ellen DeGeneres, as a nun , that is just played for cheap gags rather than sassy wit. There could have been some great ways to use that guest star on a show where two out of the four main characters are gay , but her appearance is pretty much wasted.

Brothers, A Love Story has a more serious point to make amongst the laughs & it does this reasonably well although we arent given, in the episode itself, the strong reasons why Will makes the decision he does... this could have been done without being heavy-handed. As it is, the writing makes it seems as if we should agree with Wills choice, just because, without showing us why its really important.

Cheaters is a great little two-part story. Sometimes sitcoms struggle when they introduce main characters parents, as the jokes can lose momentum amidst a series of cliches - but this is pretty funny stuff, with a couple of classic instances of people talking at cross purposes...

Debra Messing, is an United States actor. She is married to screenwriter Daniel Zelman & on April 7, 2004, gave birth to their son, Roman Walker Zelman. She became widely known as interior designer Grace Adler in the sitcom Will & Grace. In 2003 she won an Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for the role. Debra Messing was born into a Jewish family in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on August 15, 1968. When she was three she moved with her parents & her older brother, Brett, to a quiet town outside Providence, Rhode Island. Her father, Brian Messing, is a sales executive for a jewelry manufacturer; her mother, Sandy Messing, has worked as a professional singer, banker, travel agent & real estate agent. As a youngster Messing took lessons in dance, singing & acting. While Messing’s parents encouraged her dream of becoming an actress, they also urged her to get a liberal-arts education before deciding on acting as a career. Heeding their advice, she attended Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts. Posters Of Debra Messing

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James Burrows is a prolific American television director who has been working in television since the 1970s. 1970s - The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Rhoda, Laverne & Shirley, Taxi. 1990s - Wings, Frasier, Friends, NewsRadio, Caroline in the City & every episode of Will & Grace. He has also had cameo appearances in several of the shows for which he has written. He also appears as a television director in the 2005 HBO series The Comeback. It is unclear from character development if Burrows is actually playing himself. Burrows has been nominated for 15 Directors Guild of America awards & for an Emmy Award every year since 1980, excluding 1997. He is the son of playwright & television personality Abe Burrows. Posters Of Friends

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