As for the Ellen and Will & Grace references, not everyone has HBO or watches small indy films, so, yes, a lot of the mainstream public know Piven and Cannavale best from their work on hit sit-coms.

Piven? No, the real God of Love is Ron Jeremy.

Why does everyone at AICn who disagrees with me or doesn't get a joke also do the same clever gag of misspelling my user name? If anything, I'm Napofat, not Napo-lean.

See, I have no idea who or what "mullymt" is or was, but it's not that hard to look at the way you have it spelled and spell it that way.

For example, we know that the new Cupid series will be set in Los Angeles. Thomas could establish that Claire had a practice in Chicago several years back. In the pilot, Trevor would show up, and the viewers who had never heard of the original series would learn the backstory of their history together. Yes, the ages of the actors would still be about the same as those from the original show, so the characters would not have aged over the span of ten years. But they can keep the amount of time that has passed ambiguous. I really hope this is the direction is going with the pilot -- making it an indirect sequel with a loose continuity to the events of the original series, instead of trying to reboot the whole thing outright.