

Though a daredevil reporter, insecurities regarding fame and (especially) his personal relationships have him in psychotherapy for the majority of the series.


Murphy's best friend and sometime competitor is investigative reporter Frank Fontana ( Joe Regalbuto), the only person who addresses her as "Murph". Her colleagues at FYI include stuffy veteran anchor Jim Dial ( Charles Kimbrough), who affectionately addresses Murphy as "Slugger" and reminisces about the glory days of Murrow and Cronkite. Dominating the FYI news magazine, she is portrayed as one of America's hardest-hitting (though not the warmest or most sympathetic) media personalities. In her profession, she is considered one of the boys, having shattered many glass ceilings encountered during her career. Over 40 and single, she is sharp-tongued and hard as nails. Murphy Brown ( Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic who, in the show's first episode, returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic residential treatment center. CBS canceled the revival after one season on May 10, 2019. In January 2018, it was announced that CBS ordered a 13-episode revival of Murphy Brown, which premiered on September 27, 2018. The series originally ran until May 18, 1998, after airing a total of 247 episodes over ten seasons. The series stars Candice Bergen as the eponymous Murphy Brown, a famous investigative journalist and news anchor for FYI, a fictional CBS television newsmagazine, and later for Murphy in the Morning, a cable morning news show. Murphy Brown is an American television sitcom created by Diane English that premiered on November 14, 1988, on CBS. Shukovsky-English Productions/Entertainment.
