WILL & GRACE
NBC, 9:30 p.m. ET
Tonight’s episode of Will & Grace is a full-out salute to Lucille Ball and I Love Lucy, with three members of the cast taking turns playing Lucy in recreations of various classic I Love Lucy scenarios: The candy factory, the grape stomping, and, yes, the TV commercial for Vitameatavegamin. I just showed that latter episode the other night as part of my Rowan University TV History class – now being taught online, somehow – so time marches on. And the students really enjoyed it. During the most recent TV writers’ strike, I proposed a series in which SNL players and other prominent TV and movie stars would be given the chance to recreate episodes of classic TV shows as a one-shot deal. Since then, ABC has done it twice with episodes of Norman Lear’s 1970s sitcoms, and now this. I’m telling you, again, there’s gold in them thar TV hills…. And the scripts already are written.