The upcoming "Murphy Brown" reboot will tackle topical events such as the #MeToo movement as well as "wolf news," which is the sitcom's crafty take on the Fox News Channel, show creator Diane English said over the weekend.
"We are concentrating on bigger themes — climate change, Me Too, Russian meddling," English said at a panel held at the Television Critics Association Sunday morning, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"These things aren't going to not be topical a year from now so that's how we're planning our episodes. Digitally, we have the ability to pop in a super topical joke at the last minute if we wanted to."
English said that the 13-episode CBS revival would indirectly address the recent allegations of sexual misconduct against the network's CEO Les Moonves.
The New Yorker published a report detailing accusations from six women who accused Moonves of sexual harassment and English said this was something that she took "extremely seriously."
"We developed an episode about the Me Too movement months ago," she elaborated Sunday, according to The Hollywood Reporter, adding that Moonves would not be alluded to in that specific episode.
"It's written. It's to bed. It's about to be rehearsed. It's not that we would be afraid to do it, it's just that I think we have a better story to tell — a more interesting story that's more personal to Murphy," she said.
"Murphy Brown," which originally ran from 1988 to 1998, tells the story of a TV journalist who works in a Washington D.C. newsroom.
The reboot will include many original cast members including Candice Bergen, Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto and Grant Shaud, The Hollywood Reporter noted.
Viewers can expect to also find some thinly veiled references to Fox News worked into the revival's plot line.
In the sitcom, Murphy Brown's son, Avery, works for a conservative network as the lone liberal voice.
"He's also a television journalist, who is working for an opposing network called The Wolf Network — Fox," Bergen said, according to The Wrap.
Production for the series kicked off on July 24 and first episode taping in New York wrapped up just before the weekend, The Hollywood reporter noted.
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