The CBS pilot for Will & Grace creators Max Mutchick and David Kohan’s new project has cast one of the two male leads. Michael Urie, best known for Ugly Betty will be one of the two partners named by the title of the project – the other has yet to be cast.

Deadline had word today that Urie has been tapped for a co-starring role in the pilot. So far the only other casting news for this project has been Sophia Bush in the role of the yet to be cast other partner’s fiance. Bush is coming off the long running CW hit drama One Tree Hill, which is ending it’s run this year after nine seasons on the air.

Urie will play the gay half of the two partners on the pilot who are longtime friends and also business partners. He’s been keeping busy recently with live theater performances; the latest has been a starring role in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Broadway. It looks like he’s ready to come back to television though, and this mutil-camera comedy might be his ticket. If it can avoid being derivative and focuses too much on gratuitous gay jokes. I know, gratuitous gay jokes from the people who brought you Will & Grace? It would be truly shocking indeed.

Also on board from the old Will & Grace team is director James Burrows, who has also done some work recently on the new series 2 Broke Girls. I wonder who else will pop by from Will & Grace? What’s Shelley Morrison up to these days?

在《丑女贝蒂》（Ugly Betty）之后，我们很久没有见到那个一身贱气的小Gay男Marc了，而如今他就要重出江湖了，这一次他还是演Gay。据国外媒体报道，迈克尔·尤瑞（Michael Urie）将回归荧屏加入CBS新剧《直弯好基友》（Partners）的拍摄。

这部半小时喜剧讲述的是一直一弯（尤瑞 饰演）两位挚友同时也是生意伙伴的人生故事，他们的友谊比两人任何一段恋情都长。试播集中，当直男准备向女友(索菲亚·布什 饰演)求婚时，弯男本想表支持，却差点神经质般的导致了直男与女友的分手。

《丑女贝蒂》完结后，迈克尔·尤瑞一直在百老汇忙碌，目前他正在出演曲目How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying，这是《丑女贝蒂》后出演的第一个常规角色。该剧由经典喜剧《威尔与格蕾丝》（Will & Grace）的幕后黄金搭档David Kohan和Max Mutchnick联手操刀制作，《直弯好基友》能否缔造《威尔与格蕾丝》似的成功值得我们期待。