When Murphy Brown returns to CBS this drop after a 10-year hiatus, the series will be honest correct as provocative because it changed into staunch by its fashioned scurry. Within the revival’s first episode, “we in point of fact stick our heads within the lion’s mouth,” star Candice Bergen talked about on the Television Critics Association’s summer season press tour in L.A.

However the picture’s most eyebrow-elevating 2d might per chance per chance attain in its fourth episode, which will handle the #MeToo circulation at a time when the CBS network is coping with the sexual harassment allegations leveled in opposition to CBS Corp. CEO and chairman Les Moonves in a unique Unusual Yorker article. The episode will be titled “#MurphyToo.”

“On behalf of everybody on our picture, we capture the allegations of sexual misconduct extraordinarily seriously,” talked about Murphy Brown creator Diane English of the Moonves allegations. “So seriously that we in point of fact developed an episode in regards to the #MeToo circulation many months within the past. …We improve the investigation entirely.”

She added, “none of us maintain had any negative experience in that regard at CBS, and I hurry attend to the Invoice Paley days,” referring to the network’s founder.

(Earlier within the day, CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl also addressed the Moonves allegations: “Leslie has been a cultured boss and a mentor for a in point of fact lengthy time. He set me on this job. At the same time, we must appreciate the voices that stretch forward. All allegations might per chance per chance also simply restful be and are being taken seriously.”)

In January, CBS introduced it changed into reviving Murphy Brown, which aired on the network from 1988 to 1998.

Within the revival, Bergen’s Murphy Brown, who has been retired for a pair of years, is net net hosting a morning picture on a cable news network, while her now-adult son Avery is the liberal articulate at “an opposing network called the Wolf network … Fox!” talked about Bergen.

Murphy is “a fierce mom, but she’s a aggressive mom, so Avery has his work minimize out for him,” talked about Bergen.

When Murphy Brown started in 1988, there changed into no net, no social media and “cable news changed into honest correct getting started,” talked about English. Now, “to set them on the earth of 24-hour cable news changed into very, very rich for us.”

The revival will be focused “by the prism of the clicking,” talked about English, adding that no topic what President Trump says, “the clicking is no longer the enemy of the individuals.”

English talked about she has stopped planning episodes out too a long way prematurely, on myth of “we don’t maintain to win too a long way forward” of unique events, and predicted that “some things are going to drop” in September. Episodes will air roughly three weeks after they are filmed, to preserve them topical.

English talked about she first toyed with the realization of a Murphy Brown revival in 2012 when Sarah Palin ran for vp, “but it completely wasn’t a predominant consideration the least bit.”

Warner Bros. TV chief Peter Roth approached her again after the 2016 presidential election. “Because the months ticked by, it started to feel esteem there changed into an genuine motive to attain attend,” talked about English, who took 9 months to write down the principle script.

The success of NBC’s Will & Grace revival closing drop “changed into encouraging,” talked about English. “It changed into always a difficulty that you would attain attend and shatter your legacy.”

As Murphy Brown did in its fashioned scurry, English will continue to solid right-existence TV journalists on the picture (“we’ve always tried to blur the line between fictional and actuality”), and Murphy will continue to maintain a new assistant every episode. Additionally, the principle episode entails a secret cameo from an “enormously successfully-known particular person,” talked about English.

CBS launched a new teaser of the picture, from the revival’s first desk learn: