News: Tony and Emmy Award Winner Tyne Daly Joins the Cast of Murphy Brown When it Returns to CBS

UPDATED with additional casting news:

TONY AND EMMY AWARD WINNER TYNE DALY JOINS THE CAST OF

“MURPHY BROWN” WHEN IT RETURNS TO CBS

Tony and Emmy Award winner Tyne Daly will join the cast of MURPHY BROWN when it returns to CBS for the 2018-2019 broadcast season.

Daly will play Phyllis, the sister of the beloved, deceased bar owner Phil from the original series, and it’s evident that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. She has taken over the bar and is a friend and confidant to Murphy and the gang.

UPDATED with more casting news from new press release:

JAKE MCDORMAN AND NIK DODANI JOIN THE CAST OF “MURPHY BROWN” WHEN IT RETURNS TO CBS

Jake McDorman (“Limitless,” “Lady Bird”) and Nik Dodani (“Atypical”) will join the cast of MURPHY BROWN when it returns to CBS for the 2018-2019 broadcast season.

McDorman will play Avery, Murphy’s millennial journalist son who is following in his mother’s footsteps, perhaps too closely, and has his mother’s competitive spirit and quick wit.

Dodani will play Pat, the director of social media for the news show who is tasked with bringing Murphy and the gang into the 21^st century.

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UPDATED with casting news from new press release:

“Faith Ford (Corky Sherwood), Joe Regalbuto (Frank Fontana), and Grant Shaud (Miles Silverberg) will reprise their original characters from the hit comedy when MURPHY BROWN returns to CBS for the 2018-2019 broadcast season.”

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In a press release,

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“MURPHY BROWN” RETURNS TO CBS

CANDICE BERGEN REPRISES STARRING ROLE

NETWORK GIVES WARNER BROS. TELEVISION-PRODUCED COMEDY

13-EPISODE SERIES PRODUCTION COMMITMENT

FOR 2018-2019 BROADCAST SEASON

CBS has given a 13-episode, series production commitment to a current day revival of the Network’s classic comedy MURPHY BROWN from Warner Bros. Television for the 2018-2019 broadcast season, it was announced today by Kelly Kahl, President, CBS Entertainment, and Thom Sherman, Senior Executive Vice President, Programming, CBS Entertainment.

Candice Bergen, who starred in the title role from 1988-1998, will reprise her role. As its 30^th anniversary approaches, MURPHY BROWN returns to a world of cable news, social media, fake news and a very different political and cultural climate.

Warner Bros. Television, producers of the original series, will produce the new multi-camera comedy with original creator Diane English serving as writer/executive producer through her Bend in the Road Productions banner. Bergen will also be an executive producer.

During the show’s original 10-year run on CBS, MURPHY BROWN received 62 Emmy nominations (with 18 wins), 15 Golden Globe nominations (with three wins), three Screen Actors Guild awards, five Directors Guild nominations (with two wins) and four Writers Guild nominations (with two wins). Bergen won five Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.

In 2010 TV Guide named Murphy Brown one of the “25 Greatest TV Characters of All Time.”

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