TV: They’re back, and still trying too hard for laughs

The original series of Will & Grace apparently remains very popular with people who watched it as teenagers; but it was, and is, a bit too much of an American joke machine for my taste

Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally in Will & Grace (RTE 2)

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Will & Grace: RTÉ 2

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All things good and not so good come to an end – in some cases only temporarily. The over-hyped, under-achieving Derry Girls, despite its weaknesses, is booked for a second season. Not so BBC One’s McMafia, ultimately a modern Anglo-Russian version of Michael Corleone’s journey into crime in the Godfather. The ...