Their legal battle with NBC is still on, but “Will & Grace” creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan are back on the sitcom’s set.
Mutchnick and Kohan sued NBC in December 2003, claiming the network engineered a deal with NBC Studios, which produces “Will & Grace,” to keep the show’s renewal fee artificially low. (Following NBC’s merger with Universal, NBC Studios was absorbed into the larger NBC Universal Television Studio.)
That deal, which was finalized in 2002 and runs through this season, cheated the creators out of a substantial amount of money from their profit participation in the show, the suit claims. NBC countersued in March, saying Kohan and Mutchnick acted in bad faith during negotiations.
Since then, the pair have been “invited not to show up,” as one source told the Hollywood Reporter. However, tensions have apparently cooled to the point that the network doesn’t mind having Kohan and Mutchnick on set, nor do they mind being there.
“Will & Grace” opened its seventh season last week to an audience of about 16.5 million viewers.
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