Murphy Brown revival aims to hook the kiddos with top-secret Hillary Clinton cameo
Because nothing says “Timely political content!” like a cameo from one of the most important political figures of 2016—recycling a joke that was getting long in the tooth back in 1998—CBS’s Murphy Brown reboot brought out the big guns tonight, drafting Hillary Clinton for a surprise appearance on its very first episode. The sequence with Clinton (applying to be Murphy’s secretary, complete with a painful reference to having “some experience with emails”) was kept a closely guarded secret by the network, which cut the bit from early-release review screeners.