Bette Midler, Brooke Shields, Katie Couric to Guest Star on MURPHY BROWN

Bette Midler, Brooke Shields, John Larroquette, Katie Couric, and Peter Gallagher will guest star on "Murphy Brown," according to Deadline.

Both Midler and Couric had guest starred in the original series, Midler as Caprice, and Couric playing herself.

In the revival, Midler will reprise her role as Caprice Morton, Murphy's former secretary on the Thursday, November 8th episode. Though now Caprice has a surprising new connection to Murphy, making her, if possible, even more entitled and unbearable.

Shields will appear in the Thursday, November 15, episode playing Holly Mackin Lynne, a woman who has been in a coma for years and finally wakes up. One of Corky's (Faith Ford) good friends from her beauty pageant days, Holly's ordeal was dubbed The Sleeping Beauty Case 10 years ago, but was never resolved.

John Larroquette will also appear in the Thursday, November 8, episode playing Judge Nate Campbell, a kindred spirit to MURPHY BROWN (Bergen).

In the Thursday, November 8, episode, Couric will re-appear as herself as she will be seen hosting a Lifetime Achievement event and running into her old friends, Murphy (Bergen) and Corky (Ford).

Gallagher will appear in the Thursday, November 1, episode playing conservative right-wing news anchor, John Haggerty for the WOLF Network, covering an election with Avery Brown (Jake McDorman). He is also a notorious manspreader.

Multiple Emmy Award winners Candice Bergen and series creator Diane English reunite for MURPHY BROWN, the revival of the ground-breaking comedy about the eponymous broadcast news legend and her biting take on current events, now in a world of 24-hour cable, social media, "fake news" and a vastly different political climate. Amid a DIVIDED nation, chaotic national discourse and rampant attacks on the press, Murphy decides to return to the airwaves and recruits her FYI team: lifestyle reporter Corky Sherwood, investigative journalist Frank Fontana, and her former wunderkind news producer Miles Silverberg. Joining them is social media director Pat Patel, who is tasked with bringing Murphy and the team into the 21st century. Murphy's millennial son, Avery, shares his mother's competitive spirit and quick wit, and is following in her journalistic footsteps - perhaps too closely. The team still lets off steam at Phil's Bar, now run by his sister, Phyllis. Now back in the game, Murphy is determined to draw the line between good television and honest reporting, proving that the world needs MURPHY BROWN now more than ever.

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