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on <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a>. The series stars <a href="/wiki/Candice_Bergen" title="Candice Bergen">Candice Bergen</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Eponym" title="Eponym">eponymous</a> Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and <a href="/wiki/News_presenter" title="News presenter">news anchor</a> for FYI, a fictional CBS television <a href="/wiki/News_magazine" title="News magazine">newsmagazine</a>, and later for Murphy in the Morning, a cable morning news show. <table class="infobox ib-tv vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">Murphy Brown</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Murphy_Brown_2018.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Murphy_Brown_2018.png/250px-Murphy_Brown_2018.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Murphy_Brown_2018.png/375px-Murphy_Brown_2018.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Murphy_Brown_2018.png/500px-Murphy_Brown_2018.png 2x" data-file-width="1680" data-file-height="946"></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Sitcom" title="Sitcom">Sitcom</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Diane_English" title="Diane English">Diane English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data attendee"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Candice_Bergen" title="Candice Bergen">Candice Bergen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faith_Ford" title="Faith Ford">Faith Ford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Kimbrough" title="Charles Kimbrough">Charles Kimbrough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Pastorelli" title="Robert Pastorelli">Robert Pastorelli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Regalbuto" title="Joe Regalbuto">Joe Regalbuto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grant_Shaud" title="Grant Shaud">Grant Shaud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Corley" title="Pat Corley">Pat Corley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lily_Tomlin" title="Lily Tomlin">Lily Tomlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jake_McDorman" title="Jake McDorman">Jake McDorman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nik_Dodani" title="Nik Dodani">Nik Dodani</a></li> <li>Adan Rocha</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyne_Daly" title="Tyne Daly">Tyne Daly</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Composer</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Steve_Dorff" title="Steve Dorff">Steve Dorff</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country of origin</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Original language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr> of seasons</th><td class="infobox-data">11</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><abbr title="Number">No.</abbr> of episodes</th><td class="infobox-data">260 (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Murphy_Brown_episodes" title="List of Murphy Brown episodes">list of episodes</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header summary">Production</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Executive producers</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Candice Bergen</li> <li>Michael Saltzman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rob_Bragin" title="Rob Bragin">Rob Bragin</a></li> <li>Bill Diamond</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Flanagan" title="Marc Flanagan">Marc Flanagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joel_Shukovsky" title="Joel Shukovsky">Joel Shukovsky</a></li> <li>Diane English</li> <li>Eric Schotz</li> <li>Korby Siamis</li> <li>John Bowman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Dontzig" title="Gary Dontzig">Gary Dontzig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Peterman" title="Steven Peterman">Steven Peterman</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Producers</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>DeAnne Heline</li> <li>Bob Jeffords</li> <li>Deborah Smith</li> <li>Eileen Heisler</li> <li>Ned E. Davis</li> <li>Tom Seeley</li> <li>Norm Gunzenhauser</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joshua_Sternin" title="Joshua Sternin">Joshua Sternin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Ventimilia" title="Jennifer Ventimilia">Jennifer Ventimilia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barnet_Kellman" title="Barnet Kellman">Barnet Kellman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russ_Woody" title="Russ Woody">Russ Woody</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Pace_(TV_producer)" title="Frank Pace (TV producer)">Frank Pace</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Running time</th><td class="infobox-data">21–27 minutes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Production companies</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Shukovsky-English Productions/Entertainment</li> <li>Bend in the Road Productions</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros._Television_Studios" title="Warner Bros. Television Studios">Warner Bros. Television</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header summary">Original release</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Network</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Release</th><td class="infobox-data">November 14, 1988 (1988-11-14) – May 18, 1998 (1998-05-18)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Release</th><td class="infobox-data">September 27 (2018-09-27) – December 20, 2018 (2018-12-20)</td></tr></tbody></table> The series originally ran until May 18, 1998, after airing a total of 247 episodes over ten seasons. In January 2018, it was announced that CBS ordered a 13-episode revival of Murphy Brown, which premiered on September 27, 2018. CBS canceled the revival after one season on May 10, 2019. <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Plot">1 Plot</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Original_run">1.1 Original run</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Revival">1.2 Revival</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Cast_and_characters">2 Cast and characters</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Main">2.1 Main</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Recurring">2.2 Recurring</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7"><a href="#Behind_the_scenes_at_FYI">2.2.1 Behind the scenes at FYI</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8"><a href="#On_camera_at_FYI">2.2.2 On camera at FYI</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-9"><a href="#Family_and_love_interests">2.2.3 Family and love interests</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10"><a href="#Behind_the_scenes_at_Murphy_in_the_Morning_(season_11_only)">2.2.4 Behind the scenes at Murphy in the Morning (season 11 only)</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#Episodes">3 Episodes</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#Production">4 Production</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#Early_seasons">4.1 Early seasons</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#Later_seasons">4.2 Later seasons</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#Continuation">5 Continuation</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#Development">5.1 Development</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#Casting">5.2 Casting</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#Critical_response">5.3 Critical response</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="#Cultural_impact">6 Cultural impact</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#Murphy_as_a_single_mother">6.1 Murphy as a single mother</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21"><a href="#Syndication">7 Syndication</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22"><a href="#Home_media">8 Home media</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23"><a href="#Awards_and_nominations">9 Awards and nominations</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24"><a href="#Notes">10 Notes</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25"><a href="#References">11 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-26"><a href="#External_links">12 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Original_run">Original run</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Original run" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Murphy Brown (<a href="/wiki/Candice_Bergen" title="Candice Bergen">Candice Bergen</a>) is a recovering <a href="/wiki/Alcoholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Alcoholic">alcoholic</a> who, in the show's first episode, returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the <a href="/wiki/Betty_Ford_Clinic" class="mw-redirect" title="Betty Ford Clinic">Betty Ford Clinic</a> <a href="/wiki/Residential_treatment_center" title="Residential treatment center">residential treatment center</a>. Over 40 and single, she is sharp-tongued and hard as nails. In her profession, she is considered one of the boys, having shattered many <a href="/wiki/Glass_ceiling" title="Glass ceiling">glass ceilings</a> encountered during her career. Dominating the FYI news magazine, she is portrayed as one of America's hardest-hitting (though not the warmest or most sympathetic) media personalities. Her colleagues at FYI include stuffy veteran anchor Jim Dial (<a href="/wiki/Charles_Kimbrough" title="Charles Kimbrough">Charles Kimbrough</a>), who affectionately addresses Murphy as "Slugger" and reminisces about the glory days of <a href="/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow" title="Edward R. Murrow">Murrow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Walter_Cronkite" title="Walter Cronkite">Cronkite</a>. Murphy's best friend and sometime competitor is <a href="/wiki/Investigative_reporter" class="mw-redirect" title="Investigative reporter">investigative reporter</a> Frank Fontana (<a href="/wiki/Joe_Regalbuto" title="Joe Regalbuto">Joe Regalbuto</a>), the only person who addresses her as "Murph". Though a daredevil reporter, insecurities regarding fame and (especially) his personal relationships have him in <a href="/wiki/Psychotherapy" title="Psychotherapy">psychotherapy</a> for the majority of the series. In early seasons, there was a running gag about Frank's <a href="/wiki/Toup%C3%A9e" title="Toupée">toupée</a>, which he hated, but which producers insisted he wear on the show. Also present are the two newest members of the FYI team. Miles Silverberg (<a href="/wiki/Grant_Shaud" title="Grant Shaud">Grant Shaud</a>), a 25-year-old <a href="/wiki/Yuppie" title="Yuppie">yuppie</a> <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard</a> graduate and overachiever fresh from <a href="/wiki/Public_broadcasting" title="Public broadcasting">public television</a>, is appointed the new executive producer of FYI during Murphy's stay at Betty Ford. Naive and neurotic despite his lightning intellect, Miles is the perfect foil for Murphy's wit. Shaud left at the end of the eighth season, and his character was replaced during Season 9 by veteran TV producer Kay Carter-Shepley (<a href="/wiki/Lily_Tomlin" title="Lily Tomlin">Lily Tomlin</a>). Kay did not have a background in journalism but instead had made a career as a producer of game shows. The other new-kid-on-the-block is Corky Sherwood (<a href="/wiki/Faith_Ford" title="Faith Ford">Faith Ford</a>), who replaced Murphy during her stint in rehab. A former <a href="/wiki/Miss_America" title="Miss America">Miss America</a> from the (fictional) town of Neebo, <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a>, Corky is the bane of the other journalists with her perky, relentlessly sunny personality—and dumbfounding lack of sophistication. Due to overwhelming audience reaction, management decides to retain Corky's services after Murphy's return, usually assigning her to lifestyle pieces or lightweight celebrity profiles. Despite her omnipresent perkiness, Corky does mature and acquires a fair amount of worldliness over the years, not the least of which comes courtesy of her marriage to high school classmate and writer Will Forest (during which she humorously and cluelessly amends her on-air surname to "Corky <a href="/wiki/Sherwood_Forest" title="Sherwood Forest">Sherwood-Forest</a>"), subsequent divorce, and later elopement with Miles, immediately after which the couple has second thoughts — even before consummating the relationship — and decides they should "first" date (despite already being married to one another), eventually separating on good terms. The FYI team also frequently socializes at Phil's, a bar-and-grill across the street from their office/studio in Washington, D.C. Phil, the bar owner, was played by <a href="/wiki/Pat_Corley" title="Pat Corley">Pat Corley</a>. Phil's was portrayed as a Washington institution, whose owner knew everything about everybody who had ever been anybody in the capital—ranging from what brand of lingerie <a href="/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover" title="J. Edgar Hoover">J. Edgar Hoover</a> preferred to the identity of <a href="/wiki/Deep_Throat_(Watergate)" title="Deep Throat (Watergate)">Deep Throat</a> (unknown to the public at the time of the series' production). In a <a href="/wiki/Running_gag" title="Running gag">running gag</a> during early seasons, whenever someone entered Phil's (casting bright sunlight from the open door into the dark, murky bar), the patrons shouted in <a href="/wiki/Unison" title="Unison">unison</a>, "Close the door!" Brown was unmarried, but had a home life as well: she hired a laid-back, <a href="/wiki/New_Age" title="New Age">New Age</a> philosophy-dispensing house painter named Eldin Bernecky (<a href="/wiki/Robert_Pastorelli" title="Robert Pastorelli">Robert Pastorelli</a>) to repaint her house. He had so many grand ideas that he was in her employ for six seasons. Because he was a highly talented artist, his renovations were often delayed when he was struck by the urge to paint socially relevant murals throughout the house. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Revival">Revival</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Revival" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Some twenty years later, Murphy has been retired from broadcast journalism for a few years but constantly receives offers to return to the air. Following <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>'s election as president of the United States, Brown decides to accept an offer from fictional cable news network CNC to host a new morning news show titled Murphy in the Morning. She brings along her former FYI colleagues including Frank and Corky to co-host the program and Miles to produce it. The crew is joined by newcomer Pat Patel (<a href="/wiki/Nik_Dodani" title="Nik Dodani">Nik Dodani</a>), who serves as the show's social media manager. As the program gets closer to air, Brown is startled to learn that her son Avery (<a href="/wiki/Jake_McDorman" title="Jake McDorman">Jake McDorman</a>) has been given his own morning news program on Murphy's competitor, conservative cable news network Wolf News, with both of their shows scheduled to air against one another. Meanwhile, Murphy and the gang continue to spend their off-time at the bar and grill "Phil's Bar", now run by Phil's sister Phyllis (<a href="/wiki/Tyne_Daly" title="Tyne Daly">Tyne Daly</a>) following Phil's death. Jim Dial, now in his 80s, widowed and retired, comes back on an occasional basis to act as an informal mentor to the Murphy In The Morning gang. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Cast_and_characters">Cast and characters</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Cast and characters" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Main">Main</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Main" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="white-space:nowrap;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" rowspan="2">Actor </th> <th scope="col" rowspan="2">Character </th> <th scope="col" colspan="11">Seasons </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="col" style="width:3em;">1 </th> <th scope="col" style="width:3em;">2 </th> <th scope="col" style="width:3em;">3 </th> <th scope="col" style="width:3em;">4 </th> <th scope="col" style="width:3em;">5 </th> <th scope="col" style="width:3em;">6 </th> <th scope="col" style="width:3em;">7 </th> <th scope="col" style="width:3em;">8 </th> <th scope="col" style="width:3em;">9 </th> <th scope="col" style="width:3em;">10 </th> <th scope="col" style="width:3em;">11 </th></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Candice_Bergen" title="Candice Bergen">Candice Bergen</a> </td> <td>Murphy Brown </td> <td colspan="11" style="background: #DFD; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Casting_(performing_arts)#Cast_types_or_roles" title="Casting (performing arts)">Main</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Faith_Ford" title="Faith Ford">Faith Ford</a> </td> <td>Corky Sherwood </td> <td colspan="11" style="background: #DFD; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Casting_(performing_arts)#Cast_types_or_roles" title="Casting (performing arts)">Main</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Pat_Corley" title="Pat Corley">Pat Corley</a> </td> <td>Phil </td> <td colspan="7" style="background: #DFD; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Casting_(performing_arts)#Cast_types_or_roles" title="Casting (performing arts)">Main</a> </td> <td colspan="1" style="background: #DFD; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Casting_(performing_arts)#Cast_types_or_roles" title="Casting (performing arts)">Main</a><a href="#cite_note-1">[a]</a> </td> <td colspan="1"> </td> <td colspan="1" style="background: #DEF; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Guest_appearance" title="Guest appearance">Guest</a> </td> <td colspan="1"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Kimbrough" title="Charles Kimbrough">Charles Kimbrough</a> </td> <td>Jim Dial </td> <td colspan="10" style="background: #DFD; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Casting_(performing_arts)#Cast_types_or_roles" title="Casting (performing arts)">Main</a> </td> <td colspan="1" style="background: #FFE3E3; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Recurring_character" title="Recurring character">Recurring</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Pastorelli" title="Robert Pastorelli">Robert Pastorelli</a> </td> <td>Eldin Bernecky </td> <td colspan="7" style="background: #DFD; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Casting_(performing_arts)#Cast_types_or_roles" title="Casting (performing arts)">Main</a> </td> <td colspan="2"> </td> <td colspan="1" style="background: #DEF; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Guest_appearance" title="Guest appearance">Guest</a> </td> <td colspan="1"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Joe_Regalbuto" title="Joe Regalbuto">Joe Regalbuto</a> </td> <td>Frank Fontana </td> <td colspan="11" style="background: #DFD; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Casting_(performing_arts)#Cast_types_or_roles" title="Casting (performing arts)">Main</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Grant_Shaud" title="Grant Shaud">Grant Shaud</a> </td> <td>Miles Silverberg </td> <td colspan="8" style="background: #DFD; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Casting_(performing_arts)#Cast_types_or_roles" title="Casting (performing arts)">Main</a> </td> <td colspan="2"> </td> <td colspan="1" style="background: #DFD; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Casting_(performing_arts)#Cast_types_or_roles" title="Casting (performing arts)">Main</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Lily_Tomlin" title="Lily Tomlin">Lily Tomlin</a> </td> <td>Kay Carter-Shepley </td> <td colspan="8"> </td> <td colspan="2" style="background: #DFD; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Casting_(performing_arts)#Cast_types_or_roles" title="Casting (performing arts)">Main</a> </td> <td colspan="1"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row">Dyllan Christopher </td> <td rowspan="4">Avery Brown </td> <td colspan="6"> </td> <td colspan="2" style="background: #FFE3E3; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Recurring_character" title="Recurring character">Recurring</a> </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row">Jackson Buckley </td> <td colspan="8"> </td> <td colspan="1" style="background: #DEF; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Guest_appearance" title="Guest appearance">Guest</a> </td> <td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Haley_Joel_Osment" title="Haley Joel Osment">Haley Joel Osment</a> </td> <td colspan="9"> </td> <td colspan="1" style="background: #FFE3E3; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Recurring_character" title="Recurring character">Recurring</a> </td> <td colspan="1"> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Jake_McDorman" title="Jake McDorman">Jake McDorman</a> </td> <td colspan="10"> </td> <td colspan="1" style="background: #DFD; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Casting_(performing_arts)#Cast_types_or_roles" title="Casting (performing arts)">Main</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Nik_Dodani" title="Nik Dodani">Nik Dodani</a> </td> <td>Pat Patel </td> <td colspan="10"> </td> <td colspan="1" style="background: #DFD; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Casting_(performing_arts)#Cast_types_or_roles" title="Casting (performing arts)">Main</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row">Adan Rocha </td> <td>Miguel Gonzales </td> <td colspan="10"> </td> <td colspan="1" style="background: #DFD; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Casting_(performing_arts)#Cast_types_or_roles" title="Casting (performing arts)">Main</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Tyne_Daly" title="Tyne Daly">Tyne Daly</a> </td> <td>Phyllis </td> <td colspan="10"> </td> <td colspan="1" style="background: #DFD; color:black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-cast"><a href="/wiki/Casting_(performing_arts)#Cast_types_or_roles" title="Casting (performing arts)">Main</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Candice_Bergen" title="Candice Bergen">Candice Bergen</a> as Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news anchor for FYI. In seasons 8 and 9, she also co-hosts a second show called Front and Center. Following a brief retirement, in 2018 Brown returns to television in her own morning news show Murphy in the Morning.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faith_Ford" title="Faith Ford">Faith Ford</a> as Corky Sherwood, a perky reporter (and former Miss America) hired to replace Murphy during her stay at the <a href="/wiki/Betty_Ford_Clinic" class="mw-redirect" title="Betty Ford Clinic">Betty Ford Clinic</a>. Years later, she joins Murphy in the Morning as a co-host after getting fired from her job on another morning talk show.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Corley" title="Pat Corley">Pat Corley</a> as Phil (seasons 1–8; guest season 10), the extremely well-connected owner of Phil's Bar where the staff of FYI are regulars.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Kimbrough" title="Charles Kimbrough">Charles Kimbrough</a> as Jim Dial (seasons 1–10; recurring season 11), the trustworthy veteran news anchor for FYI.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Pastorelli" title="Robert Pastorelli">Robert Pastorelli</a> as Eldin Bernecky (seasons 1–7; guest season 10), an eccentric house painter that Murphy hires to renovate her house (and later employs as a live-in nanny).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Regalbuto" title="Joe Regalbuto">Joe Regalbuto</a> as Frank Fontana, an investigative reporter on FYI and later Murphy in the Morning, and Murphy's best friend.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grant_Shaud" title="Grant Shaud">Grant Shaud</a> as Miles Silverberg (seasons 1–8, 11), the very young and nervous, but also bright and competent, executive producer at FYI and later Murphy in the Morning.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lily_Tomlin" title="Lily Tomlin">Lily Tomlin</a> as Kay Carter-Shepley (seasons 9–10), a crafty veteran television producer who has absolutely no news experience, and who replaces Miles at FYI.</li> <li>Dyllan Christopher (recurring seasons 7–8), Jackson Buckley (guest season 9), <a href="/wiki/Haley_Joel_Osment" title="Haley Joel Osment">Haley Joel Osment</a> (recurring season 10), and <a href="/wiki/Jake_McDorman" title="Jake McDorman">Jake McDorman</a> (season 11) as Avery Brown, Murphy's son and a journalist and a liberal commentator on the conservative-leaning Wolf Network. In the original run of the series, he appears as a young child while in the revival he is some twenty years older.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nik_Dodani" title="Nik Dodani">Nik Dodani</a> as Pat Patel (season 11), the director of social media for Murphy in the Morning.</li> <li>Adan Rocha as Miguel Gonzales (season 11), a college student working at Phil's Bar in order to make extra money for his tuition.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyne_Daly" title="Tyne Daly">Tyne Daly</a> as Phyllis (Season 11), the sister of Phil and the current owner of Phil's Bar.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recurring">Recurring</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Recurring" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Behind_the_scenes_at_FYI">Behind the scenes at FYI</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Behind the scenes at FYI" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Hostetter" title="John Hostetter">John Hostetter</a> as John, the stage manager at FYI.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ritch_Brinkley" title="Ritch Brinkley">Ritch Brinkley</a> as Carl Wishnitski, a cameraman at FYI who has an ongoing attraction to Murphy.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Oppenheimer" title="Alan Oppenheimer">Alan Oppenheimer</a> as Gene Kinsella, a news-division executive. Seen as a recurring character in seasons 1–5, Kinsella is generally supportive of and liked by his FYI staff. In-show, the character is let go from his position and replaced with...</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Carry" title="Julius Carry">Julius Carry</a> as Mitchell Baldwin, the Machiavellian new boss who replaces Gene Kinsella. Baldwin, a Black man used the team's liberal-Caucasian guilt to railroad through changes in FYI's format and content. Appears in seasons 5 and 6, and in a dream sequence in season 8. Essentially superseded as the network thorn in FYI's side by...</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garry_Marshall" title="Garry Marshall">Garry Marshall</a> as Stan Lansing, the very excitable, aggressive, and micro-managing network president. His frequent and impromptu whims are the bane of the FYI staff. Seen fairly regularly in seasons 6–9, and one final time in season 10.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Reubens" title="Paul Reubens">Paul Reubens</a> as Andrew J. Lansing III, Stan Lansing's sociopathic nephew. He is introduced as one of Murphy's 93 secretaries du jour and was one of only three who measure up to Murphy's standards. Like the few other secretaries who were actually competent, Andrew is lured away from Murphy by another job by the end of the episode; in his case, he is promoted to a network executive position through nepotism. He periodically appears in later episodes, although his network career is wildly unpredictable, largely due to the mercurial nature of his uncle and mentor—at various times, Andrew is a network VP, an executive producer, and a mailboy. Seen as an occasional character in seasons 7–9.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="On_camera_at_FYI">On camera at FYI</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: On camera at FYI" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Rich_(American_actor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Christopher Rich (American actor)">Christopher Rich</a> as Miller Redfield, an empty-headed, pretty-boy reporter with a local affiliate who had semi-regular appearances on the show. At first, he was a recurring substitute anchor, but after a gap of a few years, he became a regular member of the FYI team —- although the rest of the team frequently (usually unsuccessfully) conspired to get rid of him. Later co-hosted a separate news show with Murphy called Front and Center, produced out of the same office. Seen once per season in seasons 2–4, he was then seen very frequently in seasons 7–9.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wallace_Shawn" title="Wallace Shawn">Wallace Shawn</a> as Stuart Best, a buffoonish former FYI reporter who annoyed Murphy, Jim, and Frank to the point that the three colluded to have him fired —- twice. After the second firing, Stuart returned as a hopelessly inept party-line politician who invariably broke down under even the most sympathetic questions by Murphy while on-air. Appeared once a season in seasons 6–9.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Bakula" title="Scott Bakula">Scott Bakula</a> as Peter Hunt, a reporter and occasional love interest of Murphy's. Seen in seasons 6 through 8.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paula_Cale" title="Paula Cale">Paula Cale</a> as McGovern, a conservative young reporter based on MTV's <a href="/wiki/Kennedy_(commentator)" title="Kennedy (commentator)">Kennedy</a>. She was added to the program when management tried to appeal to a younger demographic. Seen for a run of episodes as a regular towards the end of season 7, the character was then quietly dropped without explanation and never mentioned again.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Family_and_love_interests">Family and love interests</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Family and love interests" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colleen_Dewhurst" title="Colleen Dewhurst">Colleen Dewhurst</a> as Avery Brown, a museum curator and Murphy's opinionated mother. Dewhurst won two <a href="/wiki/Emmy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmy Award">Emmy Awards</a> for her appearances, appearing in a total of four episodes in seasons 1–3. When Dewhurst died in 1991, the writers chose to have her character die as well, and dedicated the episode to the memory of Dewhurst. Murphy, who was pregnant at the time of her mother's death, named her son Avery in her mother's memory the following season.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darren_McGavin" title="Darren McGavin">Darren McGavin</a> as Bill Brown, a newspaper publisher and Murphy's father. Bill shared an adversarial relationship with his ex-wife Avery—especially after marrying Karen, a fresh-faced twenty-something who taught <a href="/wiki/Yoga" title="Yoga">yoga</a>. McGavin appeared in four episodes as Bill Brown (in seasons 2, 4 and 5) and earned an Emmy nomination in 1990 for his performance.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jay_Thomas" title="Jay Thomas">Jay Thomas</a> as Jerry Gold, an abrasive tabloid talk show host who became a friend of Murphy's and an occasional love interest, despite their significantly different journalistic values. Seen in seasons 2–4; returns in a dream sequence in 8, and in one episode (now about to get married) during season 10.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_Thomas" title="Robin Thomas">Robin Thomas</a> as Jake Lowenstein, an underground leftist radical and Murphy's ex-husband from long before her FYI days. Seen very infrequently, for a total of five episodes in seasons 1, 3, 4 and 8. Murphy and Jake had a brief relationship during season three, which resulted in Murphy's pregnancy.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Leeves" title="Jane Leeves">Jane Leeves</a> as Audrey Cohen, Miles' girlfriend, seen occasionally in seasons 2–5. Though she and Miles were headed for marriage, the relationship ended abruptly—offscreen, Leeves joined the cast of <a href="/wiki/Frasier" title="Frasier">Frasier</a> in 1993, and was no longer available to appear on Murphy Brown.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janet_Carroll" title="Janet Carroll">Janet Carroll</a> (seasons 2–9) and <a href="/wiki/Concetta_Tomei" title="Concetta Tomei">Concetta Tomei</a> (season 10) as Doris Dial, anchorman Jim Dial's equally stoic, but kind-hearted wife.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Finn_(actor)" title="Pat Finn (actor)">Pat Finn</a> as Phil Jr. (ten episodes in Seasons 8 and 9), Phil's son who, though somewhat empty-headed, takes on running Phil's Bar after his father dies.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dena_Dietrich" title="Dena Dietrich">Dena Dietrich</a> as Phyllis (two episodes in Season 2 & one episode in Season 9), Phil's wife and mother of their four children: Little Phil, Phillip, Felicia, & Phil Jr.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Behind_the_scenes_at_Murphy_in_the_Morning_(season_11_only)">Behind the scenes at Murphy in the Morning (season 11 only)</h4> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Behind the scenes at Murphy in the Morning (season 11 only)" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li>Andre Ward as Julius, the stage manager of Murphy in the Morning.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merle_Dandridge" title="Merle Dandridge">Merle Dandridge</a> as Diana Macomber, the head of cable news network CNC, which airs Murphy in the Morning.</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Episodes">Episodes</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Episodes" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Murphy_Brown_episodes" title="List of Murphy Brown episodes">List of Murphy Brown episodes</a></div> <div style="display:block;overflow-x:auto"><table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;height:1px;display:table"><tbody><tr style="text-align:center"><th scope="col" rowspan="2" style="min-width:50px;padding:0 8px">Season</th><th scope="col" rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="padding:0 8px">Episodes</th><th scope="colgroup" colspan="2">Originally aired</th><th scope="col" rowspan="2" style="padding:0 8px">Rank</th><th scope="col" rowspan="2" style="padding:0 8px"><abbr title="Average">Avg.</abbr> rating<a href="#cite_note-2">[b]</a>/ Avg. viewers<a href="#cite_note-3">[c]</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="col">First aired</th><th scope="col">Last aired</th></tr><tr style="height:100%"><th scope="row" colspan="1" style="height:inherit;padding:0"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Murphy_Brown_episodes#Season_1_(1988%E2%80%9389)" title="List of Murphy Brown episodes">1</a></th><td colspan="2">22</td><td colspan="1" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em">November 14, 1988 (1988-11-14)</td><td style="padding:0 8px">May 22, 1989 (1989-05-22)</td><td>36</td><td>14.9</td></tr><tr style="height:100%"><th scope="row" colspan="1" style="height:inherit;padding:0"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Murphy_Brown_episodes#Season_2_(1989%E2%80%9390)" title="List of Murphy Brown episodes">2</a></th><td colspan="2">27</td><td colspan="1" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em">September 18, 1989 (1989-09-18)</td><td style="padding:0 8px">May 21, 1990 (1990-05-21)</td><td>26</td><td>14.7</td></tr><tr style="height:100%"><th scope="row" colspan="1" style="height:inherit;padding:0"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Murphy_Brown_episodes#Season_3_(1990%E2%80%9391)" title="List of Murphy Brown episodes">3</a></th><td colspan="2">26</td><td colspan="1" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em">September 17, 1990 (1990-09-17)</td><td style="padding:0 8px">May 20, 1991 (1991-05-20)</td><td>6</td><td>16.9</td></tr><tr style="height:100%"><th scope="row" colspan="1" style="height:inherit;padding:0"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Murphy_Brown_episodes#Season_4_(1991%E2%80%9392)" title="List of Murphy Brown episodes">4</a></th><td colspan="2">26</td><td colspan="1" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em">September 16, 1991 (1991-09-16)</td><td style="padding:0 8px">May 18, 1992 (1992-05-18)</td><td>3</td><td>18.6</td></tr><tr style="height:100%"><th scope="row" colspan="1" style="height:inherit;padding:0"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Murphy_Brown_episodes#Season_5_(1992%E2%80%9393)" title="List of Murphy Brown episodes">5</a></th><td colspan="2">25</td><td colspan="1" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em">September 21, 1992 (1992-09-21)</td><td style="padding:0 8px">May 17, 1993 (1993-05-17)</td><td>4</td><td>17.9</td></tr><tr style="height:100%"><th scope="row" colspan="1" style="height:inherit;padding:0"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Murphy_Brown_episodes#Season_6_(1993%E2%80%9394)" title="List of Murphy Brown episodes">6</a></th><td colspan="2">25</td><td colspan="1" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em">September 20, 1993 (1993-09-20)</td><td style="padding:0 8px">May 16, 1994 (1994-05-16)</td><td>9</td><td>16.3</td></tr><tr style="height:100%"><th scope="row" colspan="1" style="height:inherit;padding:0"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Murphy_Brown_episodes#Season_7_(1994%E2%80%9395)" title="List of Murphy Brown episodes">7</a></th><td colspan="2">26</td><td colspan="1" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em">September 19, 1994 (1994-09-19)</td><td style="padding:0 8px">May 22, 1995 (1995-05-22)</td><td>16</td><td>14.1</td></tr><tr style="height:100%"><th scope="row" colspan="1" style="height:inherit;padding:0"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Murphy_Brown_episodes#Season_8_(1995%E2%80%9396)" title="List of Murphy Brown episodes">8</a></th><td colspan="2">24</td><td colspan="1" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em">September 18, 1995 (1995-09-18)</td><td style="padding:0 8px">May 20, 1996 (1996-05-20)</td><td>18</td><td>12.3</td></tr><tr style="height:100%"><th scope="row" colspan="1" style="height:inherit;padding:0"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Murphy_Brown_episodes#Season_9_(1996%E2%80%9397)" title="List of Murphy Brown episodes">9</a></th><td colspan="2">24</td><td colspan="1" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em">September 24, 1996 (1996-09-24)</td><td style="padding:0 8px">May 18, 1997 (1997-05-18)</td><td>34</td><td>10.4</td></tr><tr style="height:100%"><th scope="row" colspan="1" style="height:inherit;padding:0"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Murphy_Brown_episodes#Season_10_(1997%E2%80%9398)" title="List of Murphy Brown episodes">10</a></th><td colspan="2">22</td><td colspan="1" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em">October 1, 1997 (1997-10-01)</td><td style="padding:0 8px">May 18, 1998 (1998-05-18)</td><td>86</td><td>9.9</td></tr><tr style="height:100%"><th scope="row" colspan="1" style="height:inherit;padding:0"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Murphy_Brown_episodes#Season_11_(2018)" title="List of Murphy Brown episodes">11</a></th><td colspan="2">13</td><td colspan="1" style="padding:0.2em 0.4em">September 27, 2018 (2018-09-27)</td><td style="padding:0 8px">December 20, 2018 (2018-12-20)</td><td>35</td><td>8.47</td></tr></tbody></table></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Production">Production</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Production" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_seasons">Early seasons</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Early seasons" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Murphy_Brown_original_cast.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9d/Murphy_Brown_original_cast.jpg/250px-Murphy_Brown_original_cast.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="189" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="363" data-file-height="274"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 250px;height: 189px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9d/Murphy_Brown_original_cast.jpg/250px-Murphy_Brown_original_cast.jpg" data-width="250" data-height="189" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/Murphy_Brown_original_cast.jpg 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The cast of Murphy Brown (1988–96, from left): (front) Kimbrough, Bergen, Regalbuto, Ford, Shaud; (back) Pastorelli, Corley</figcaption></figure> The first season saw Murphy relearning her job without the use of two crutches—alcohol and cigarettes. In the pilot episode, she complained the only vice she had left herself was chewing yellow number-two pencils. It also set up the series-long running gag of Murphy's battles with the off-beat and sometimes downright bizarre characters who were sent by Personnel to act as her secretary, none of whom ever last for more than an episode, save two; one played by <a href="/wiki/Paul_Reubens" title="Paul Reubens">Paul Reubens</a>. Action was divided between the FYI suite of offices and Murphy's <a href="/wiki/Georgetown_(Washington,_D.C.)" title="Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)">Georgetown</a> townhouse. Reality often blended with fiction with the many cameos of then-current media and political personalities. The most prominent was when Murphy Brown was asked to guest star as herself in the pilot of a <a href="/wiki/Sitcom" title="Sitcom">sitcom</a> entitled Kelly Green, about a female investigative journalist. Life imitated art when, after a less-than stellar performance, Murphy was berated by television journalist <a href="/wiki/Connie_Chung" title="Connie Chung">Connie Chung</a> (herself in a Murphy Brown cameo appearance) for crossing the line and compromising her credibility. Subsequent seasons saw the emergence of story arcs involving network politics with Gene Kinsella, Frank and Murphy's rivalry and Eldin's ongoing infatuation with Corky. A standout event was Miss Sherwood's marriage to Louisiana lawyer Will Forrest. During the brief engagement, a horrified Corky comes to the realization that she will now be "Corky Sherwood-Forrest". In the wedding episode, maid-of-honor Murphy, dressed as an antebellum belle in a hoop-skirted nightmare of a bridemaid's dress, rages her way through the entire affair while thwarting the press's attempts to photograph the nuptials (mirroring the <a href="/wiki/Sean_Penn" title="Sean Penn">Sean Penn</a>/<a href="/wiki/Madonna_(entertainer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Madonna (entertainer)">Madonna</a> wedding a few years earlier). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_seasons">Later seasons</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Later seasons" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The fifth season continued after the departure of series creator and showrunner Diane English. Murphy's struggles with parenthood were highlighted, as were the revolving-door of nanny characters mirroring her office tribulations. Corky's marriage unraveled and ended in divorce as she and Will grew apart. (Right before the wedding, Forrest had decided to abandon the practice of law and follow his true calling—creative writing.) This tragedy saw Corky become less the <a href="/wiki/Pollyanna" title="Pollyanna">Pollyanna</a> as she began to model herself after role-model Murphy. The show went on, and FYI featured several changes in on- and off-camera staff: Peter Hunt, McGovern and Miller Redfield temporarily joined the regulars at the anchor desk. The network moved FYI to a new studio with a trendy exterior "Window on America". A significant <a href="/wiki/Story_arc" title="Story arc">story arc</a> saw the network squelch an FYI exposé on the tobacco industry, leading to the resignation of first Dial, then the remainder of the cast. They all went to work reorganizing the poorly-performing news division of a fledgling network. In the end, Miles faced down the network; the "suits" relented, the staffers returned and the story aired. For his courage in standing up to the network brass, Miles was promoted to the news division's headquarters in New York—to the detriment of his new marriage to Corky. As well, after years of working as her housepainter, and later nanny, Eldin (who was seen increasingly infrequently after season 5) left Murphy's employ during season 7 to study painting in Spain. (Actor Robert Pastorelli left Murphy Brown for his own starring vehicle, the sitcom <a href="/wiki/Double_Rush" title="Double Rush">Double Rush</a>, which lasted one season in 1995.) <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Murphy_Brown_1996_cast.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/28/Murphy_Brown_1996_cast.jpg/250px-Murphy_Brown_1996_cast.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="185" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="367" data-file-height="272"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 250px;height: 185px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/28/Murphy_Brown_1996_cast.jpg/250px-Murphy_Brown_1996_cast.jpg" data-width="250" data-height="185" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/Murphy_Brown_1996_cast.jpg 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The cast of Murphy Brown for its final two seasons. <a href="/wiki/Lily_Tomlin" title="Lily Tomlin">Lily Tomlin</a> is pictured fourth from the left.</figcaption></figure> By the start of the 1996–97 season, viewership was beginning to decline. Shaud left the series and comedian <a href="/wiki/Lily_Tomlin" title="Lily Tomlin">Lily Tomlin</a> was brought in to replace him in the role of executive producer Kay Carter-Shepley to help bolster the sitcom's ratings. Kay proved that she had just as little journalistic experience as Miles Silverberg when he started with the show; the only experience Kay had in television—in spite of her venerable connections—was producing daytime <a href="/wiki/Game_show" title="Game show">game shows</a>. Where Murphy had terrorized the younger Miles, the Machiavellian Kay often emerged victorious in her dealings with Murphy. Tomlin remained with the series for its last two years but ratings continued to drop, especially after a move off of Monday nights in favor of a slot on Wednesday nights. CBS did renew Murphy Brown for a tenth season, which was to be its last. In the fall of 1997, the final season premiered and the entire season served as a story arc in which Murphy battled <a href="/wiki/Breast_cancer" title="Breast cancer">breast cancer</a>. The storyline was not without controversy; an episode in which she used <a href="/wiki/Medical_marijuana" class="mw-redirect" title="Medical marijuana">medical marijuana</a> to relieve side effects of <a href="/wiki/Chemotherapy" title="Chemotherapy">chemotherapy</a> was attacked by conservative groups, and a women's health group protested an episode in which Murphy, while shopping for prosthetic breasts, uttered the line "Should I go with <a href="/wiki/Demi_Moore" title="Demi Moore">Demi Moore</a> or <a href="/wiki/Elsie_the_Cow" title="Elsie the Cow">Elsie the Cow</a>?" However, the show's handling of the subject was credited with a 30 percent increase in the number of women getting <a href="/wiki/Mammogram" class="mw-redirect" title="Mammogram">mammograms</a> that year,<a href="#cite_note-4">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[2]</a> and Bergen was presented an award from the <a href="/wiki/American_Cancer_Society" title="American Cancer Society">American Cancer Society</a> in honor of her role in educating women on the importance of breast cancer prevention and screening.<a href="#cite_note-6">[3]</a> In the original run's final episode, Murphy met and interviewed <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> (played by <a href="/wiki/Alan_King" title="Alan King">Alan King</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow" title="Edward R. Murrow">Edward R. Murrow</a> in a dream while undergoing surgery. Computer editing was used to insert footage of the real Murrow, who died in 1965, into the show. <a href="/wiki/Diane_English" title="Diane English">Diane English</a>, who created the show, made a <a href="/wiki/Cameo_appearance" title="Cameo appearance">cameo appearance</a> as a nurse who delivered the results to Murphy after her surgery. At the end of the episode, Murphy walks through her house seemingly alone, only to have Eldin appear at the end, offering to "touch up" her house. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Continuation">Continuation</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Continuation" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Murphy_Brown_(season_11)" class="mw-redirect" title="Murphy Brown (season 11)">Murphy Brown (season 11)</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Development">Development</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Development" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Following the end of the show's original run, series creator Diane English had been approached multiple times about potentially reviving the series. Around 2008, the show came the closest to being brought back to the air following <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin">Sarah Palin</a>'s nomination as the Republican vice-presidential nominee with comparisons being drawn between her and former Murphy Brown critic <a href="/wiki/Dan_Quayle" title="Dan Quayle">Dan Quayle</a>. In 2017, <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros._Television_Studios" title="Warner Bros. Television Studios">Warner Bros. Television</a> again approached English about reviving the series following <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump_2016_presidential_campaign" title="Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign">the election of Donald Trump as president</a>. English spent nine months developing an idea for a new iteration of the series before finally composing a script. <a href="/wiki/Candice_Bergen" title="Candice Bergen">Candice Bergen</a> was then approached about signing on to the project and she agreed on the condition that <a href="/wiki/Faith_Ford" title="Faith Ford">Faith Ford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Regalbuto" title="Joe Regalbuto">Joe Regalbuto</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Grant_Shaud" title="Grant Shaud">Grant Shaud</a> join as well.<a href="#cite_note-7">[4]</a> On January 24, 2018, it was announced that CBS had given the production a series order for one season consisting of thirteen episodes set to air during the <a href="/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_United_States_network_television_schedule" title="2018–19 United States network television schedule">2018–2019 season</a>. English and Bergen were set to serve as executive producers of the revival which would, according to CBS, be set in "a world of <a href="/wiki/Cable_news" class="mw-redirect" title="Cable news">cable news</a>, <a href="/wiki/Social_media" title="Social media">social media</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fake_news" title="Fake news">fake news</a> and a very different political and cultural climate." Production companies involved with the series were slated to consist of Bend in the Road Productions and Warner Bros. Television.<a href="#cite_note-Revival-8">[5]</a> On February 27, 2018, it was announced that <a href="/wiki/Pam_Fryman" class="mw-redirect" title="Pam Fryman">Pam Fryman</a> would direct the revival's pilot episode.<a href="#cite_note-9">[6]</a> On May 16, 2018, it was announced during the CBS upfronts presentation that the revival would 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 would host a rival, cable morning show that airs opposite his mother's program.<a href="#cite_note-10">[7]</a> On July 9, 2018, it was announced that the series would premiere on September 27, 2018.<a href="#cite_note-11">[8]</a> On September 21, 2018, it was reported that CBS had extended the running time of the premiere episode of the revival by five minutes.<a href="#cite_note-12">[9]</a> On November 28, 2018, it was reported that the season would end after the thirteen episodes ordered by CBS had aired. However, it was further reported that the series was still under consideration by CBS to be renewed for another season.<a href="#cite_note-13">[10]</a> On May 10, 2019, CBS canceled the revival series after a single season.<a href="#cite_note-14">[11]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Casting">Casting</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Casting" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Alongside the initial announcement of the revival, it was confirmed that Candice Bergen would reprise her role as Murphy Brown.<a href="#cite_note-Revival-8">[5]</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Charles_Kimbrough" title="Charles Kimbrough">Charles Kimbrough</a> would not be returning to the series full-time, but might make a guest appearance in the revival.<a href="#cite_note-15">[12]</a> On March 16, 2018, it was announced that <a href="/wiki/Jake_McDorman" title="Jake McDorman">Jake McDorman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nik_Dodani" title="Nik Dodani">Nik Dodani</a> had also joined the main cast. McDorman was set to assume the role of Murphy Brown's now adult son Avery.<a href="#cite_note-16">[13]</a> On April 19, 2018, it was announced that <a href="/wiki/Tyne_Daly" title="Tyne Daly">Tyne Daly</a> had joined the main cast in the role of Phyllis, the sister of the deceased bar owner Phil from the series' original run.<a href="#cite_note-17">[14]</a> On August 5, 2018, it was confirmed during the <a href="/wiki/Television_Critics_Association" title="Television Critics Association">Television Critics Association</a>'s annual summer press tour that Kimbrough would reprise his role from the series' original run in a three-episode story arc.<a href="#cite_note-18">[15]</a> On September 13, 2018, it was reported that Adan Rocha had been cast in a series regular role.<a href="#cite_note-19">[16]</a> In October 2018, it was announced that <a href="/wiki/Merle_Dandridge" title="Merle Dandridge">Merle Dandridge</a> had joined the cast in a recurring capacity and that <a href="/wiki/Bette_Midler" title="Bette Midler">Bette Midler</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brooke_Shields" title="Brooke Shields">Brooke Shields</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Larroquette" title="John Larroquette">John Larroquette</a>, <a href="/wiki/Katie_Couric" title="Katie Couric">Katie Couric</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Gallagher" title="Peter Gallagher">Peter Gallagher</a> would appear in guest-starring roles.<a href="#cite_note-20">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[18]</a> Before the premiere of the season, it was reported that the first episode would feature a guest appearance from a prominent individual. The identity of the guest was kept secret until the episode aired with the network going so far as to not include the scene in which they appeared in screeners for the press. Upon the episode's release, it was revealed that the guest star was in fact former secretary of state and Democratic presidential nominee <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>.<a href="#cite_note-22">[19]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critical_response">Critical response</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Critical response" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> On the review aggregation website <a href="/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes" title="Rotten Tomatoes">Rotten Tomatoes</a>, the season holds an approval rating of 45% with an average rating of 6.00 out of 10, based on 47 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "This just in: while the nostalgia and wit are welcome, Murphy Brown's dated messaging tactics feel heavy-handed and smug, leaving this formerly formidably timely series feeling like a reboot reaching for the headlines."<a href="#cite_note-23">[20]</a> <a href="/wiki/Metacritic" title="Metacritic">Metacritic</a>, which uses a weighted average, assigned the season a score of 53 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<a href="#cite_note-24">[21]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="Cultural_impact">Cultural impact</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Cultural impact" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Murphy_as_a_single_mother">Murphy as a single mother</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Murphy as a single mother" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> 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 <a href="/wiki/Katie_Couric" title="Katie Couric">Katie Couric</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joan_Lunden" title="Joan Lunden">Joan Lunden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paula_Zahn" title="Paula Zahn">Paula Zahn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Alice_Williams" title="Mary Alice Williams">Mary Alice Williams</a> and <a href="/wiki/Faith_Daniels" title="Faith Daniels">Faith Daniels</a>, who treated the fictional Murphy and Corky as friends and peers. <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dan_Quayle_crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Dan_Quayle_crop.jpg/180px-Dan_Quayle_crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="234" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1675" data-file-height="2175"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 180px;height: 234px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Dan_Quayle_crop.jpg/180px-Dan_Quayle_crop.jpg" data-width="180" data-height="234" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Dan_Quayle_crop.jpg/270px-Dan_Quayle_crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Dan_Quayle_crop.jpg/360px-Dan_Quayle_crop.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dan_Quayle" title="Dan Quayle">Dan Quayle</a> criticized single parenting during his 1992 speech.</figcaption></figure> At the point where she was about to give birth, she had stated that "several people do not want me to have the baby. <a href="/wiki/Pat_Robertson" title="Pat Robertson">Pat Robertson</a>; <a href="/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly" title="Phyllis Schlafly">Phyllis Schlafly</a>; half of Utah!" Right after giving birth to her son Avery, Murphy sang the song "<a href="/wiki/(You_Make_Me_Feel_Like)_A_Natural_Woman" title="(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman">(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman</a>". This storyline made the show a subject of political controversy during the <a href="/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election" title="1992 United States presidential election">1992 American presidential campaign</a>. On May 19, 1992, <a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President</a> <a href="/wiki/Dan_Quayle" title="Dan Quayle">Dan Quayle</a> spoke at the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_Club_of_California" title="Commonwealth Club of California">Commonwealth Club</a> in San Francisco. During his speech,<a href="#cite_note-25">[22]</a> he criticized the Murphy Brown character for "mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone".<a href="#cite_note-forerunner-26">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-27">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-28">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-29">[26]</a> Quayle's remarks caused a public discussion on <a href="/wiki/Family_values" title="Family values">family values</a>, culminating in the 1992–93 season premiere, "You Say <a href="/wiki/Dan_Quayle#Perceived_gaffes" title="Dan Quayle">Potatoe</a>, I Say Potato", where the television characters reacted to Quayle's comments and produced a special episode of FYI showcasing and celebrating the diversity of the modern American family. Because Quayle's actual speech made little reference to Murphy Brown's fictional nature (other than the use of the word character), the show was able to use actual footage from his speech to make it appear that, within the fictional world of the show, Quayle was referring to Murphy Brown personally, rather than to the fictional character. At the end, Brown helps organize a special edition of FYI focusing on different kinds of families, then arranges a retaliatory prank in which a truckload of potatoes is dumped in front of Quayle's residence while a disc jockey playfully commenting on the incident notes the Vice President should be glad people were not making fun of him for misspelling "fertilizer". This referenced how, on June 15, 1992, at a spelling bee in <a href="/wiki/Trenton,_New_Jersey" title="Trenton, New Jersey">Trenton, New Jersey</a>, Quayle had erroneously corrected an elementary-school student's spelling of "potato" to "potatoe". The cue card used by the teacher read "potatoe". When Candice Bergen won another <a href="/wiki/Emmy" class="mw-redirect" title="Emmy">Emmy</a> that year, she thanked Dan Quayle. The feud was cited by <a href="/wiki/E!" title="E!">E!</a> as #81 on its list of "101 Reasons the '90s Ruled".<a href="#cite_note-e-101-30">[27]</a> In 2002, Bergen said in an interview that she personally agreed with much of Quayle's speech, calling it "a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable" and adding that "nobody agreed with that more than I did."<a href="#cite_note-ap2002-31">[28]</a> Quayle eventually displayed a sense of humor about the incident—after the controversy died down, he appeared for an interview on an independent Los Angeles TV station and for his final question was asked what his favorite TV show was. He responded with "Murphy Brown—Not!" The station later used the clip of Quayle's response to promote its showing of Murphy Brown re-runs in <a href="/wiki/Television_syndication" class="mw-redirect" title="Television syndication">syndication</a>. Quayle's complaint notwithstanding, prime-time TV in 1992 was "boosting family values more aggressively than it has in decades", wrote <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a> magazine critic Richard Zoglin, citing everything from <a href="/wiki/Home_Improvement_(TV_series)" title="Home Improvement (TV series)">Home Improvement</a> to <a href="/wiki/Roseanne" title="Roseanne">Roseanne</a>. Murphy Brown was worth highlighting in a vice-presidential speech "not because it represented the state of television and the culture in general" but because Murphy's choice of single motherhood departed from it.<a href="#cite_note-Zoglin-32">[29]</a> The show has been seen as blazing a trail for single-mother characters in <a href="/wiki/Ally_McBeal" title="Ally McBeal">Ally McBeal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sex_and_the_City" title="Sex and the City">Sex and the City</a>, <a href="/wiki/Desperate_Housewives" title="Desperate Housewives">Desperate Housewives</a>, and <a href="/wiki/The_Good_Wife" title="The Good Wife">The Good Wife</a>—and "benefited from Bergen's character going through a political maelstrom so none of them had to."<a href="#cite_note-Zoglin-32">[29]</a> In 2010, Murphy was ranked #25 on the <a href="/wiki/Pop_(American_TV_channel)" title="Pop (American TV channel)">TV Guide Network</a> special, 25 Greatest TV Characters of All Time.<a href="#cite_note-33">[30]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="Syndication">Syndication</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Syndication" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> Murphy Brown was unsuccessful when it was introduced in off-network syndication in the 1990s, in part because of costly music rights fees. Also, some topical news and cultural references featured in episodes of the show had quickly become dated.<a href="#cite_note-34">[31]</a> It was reintroduced to cable and digital multicast networks in the 2010s, beginning with a run on <a href="/wiki/Starz_Encore" title="Starz Encore">Encore Classic</a> in 2013,<a href="#cite_note-blackclassic-35">[32]</a> with the series airing on <a href="/wiki/Antenna_TV" title="Antenna TV">Antenna TV</a> as of 2018.<a href="#cite_note-36">[33]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(8)"><h2 id="Home_media">Home media</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Home media" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-8 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-8"> <a href="/wiki/Warner_Home_Video" class="mw-redirect" title="Warner Home Video">Warner Home Video</a> released the first season of Murphy Brown on DVD in Region 1 on February 8, 2005. Due to low sales and high music licensing costs, no future releases are planned.<a href="#cite_note-37">[34]</a><a href="#cite_note-38">[35]</a> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"> <tbody><tr> <th style="padding:0 8px;" rowspan="2">DVD name </th> <th style="padding:0 8px;" rowspan="2">Eps </th> <th style="padding:0 8px;" colspan="3">Release dates </th> <th style="padding:0 8px;" rowspan="2">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/DVD_region_code#1" title="DVD region code">Region 1</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/DVD_region_code#2" title="DVD region code">Region 2</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/DVD_region_code#4" title="DVD region code">Region 4</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td>The Complete First Season </td> <td align="center">22 </td> <td>February 8, 2005 </td> <td>N/A </td> <td>N/A </td> <td> <ul><li>A documentary, Murphy Brown: An FYI Exclusive, features a look back at season one and how it all began with interviews by Creator/Executive Producer Diane English, Candice Bergen, writers and supporting cast.</li> <li>Episode commentary on "Summer of '77" and "Respect" with Candice Bergen and Diane English.</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(9)"><h2 id="Awards_and_nominations">Awards and nominations</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Awards and nominations" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-9 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-9"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Murphy_Brown" title="List of awards and nominations received by Murphy Brown">List of awards and nominations received by Murphy Brown</a></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(10)"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Murphy_Brown&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Notes" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-10 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-10"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> Corley was only credited for the episodes in which he appeared during season eight. </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> In households; 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