<P> On January 24, 2018, in the wake of rival broadcast networks reviving their own popular classic series (Will & Grace on NBC, Roseanne on ABC, and The X-Files for Fox), CBS announced it had given a series order to a thirteen episode revival of Murphy Brown for the 2018--2019 season . The series will be set in "a world of cable news, social media, fake news and a very different political and cultural climate," according to CBS . Candice Bergen and series creator Diane English are set to return as executive producers . On February 27, 2018, it was announced that Pam Fryman would direct the revival's pilot episode . </P> <P> On May 16, 2018, it was announced during the CBS upfronts presentation that the revival will now have Murphy anchoring a cable morning show, Murphy In the Morning, with her old team, lifestyle reporter Corky Sherwood, investigative journalist Frank Fontana, and producer Miles Silverberg, while Murphy's son Avery works as a conservative anchor host for a rival cable morning show that airs opposite his mother's program . On July 9, 2018, it was announced that the series would premiere on September 27, 2018 . </P> <P> Alongside the initial announcement of the revival, it was confirmed that Candice Bergen would reprise her role as Murphy Brown . On February 26, 2018, it was announced that Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto, and Grant Shaud were joining the main cast and reprising their roles from the series' original run . It was also reported Charles Kimbrough might make a guest appearance in the revival . On March 16, 2018, it was announced that Jake McDorman and Nik Dodani had also joined the main cast . McDorman is set to assume the role of Murphy Brown's now adult son Avery . On April 19, 2018, it was announced that Tyne Daly had joined the main cast in the role of Phyllis, the sister of the deceased bar owner Phil from the series' original run . On August 5, 2018, it was announced during the Television Critics Association's annual summer press tour that Charles Kimbrough would reprise his role from the series' original run in a three episode story arc . </P> <P> In the show's 1991--92 season, Murphy became pregnant . When her baby's father (ex-husband and current underground radical Jake Lowenstein) expressed his unwillingness to give up his own lifestyle to be a parent, Murphy chose to have the child and raise it alone . Another major fiction - reality blending came at Murphy's baby shower: the invited guests were journalists Katie Couric, Joan Lunden, Paula Zahn, Mary Alice Williams and Faith Daniels, who treated the fictional Murphy and Corky as friends and peers . </P>

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