Date: 1st March 2001

O'Neill Looking To Earn Respect On New Drama


Ed O'Neill, who returns to series television tonight (Thursday) on the new CBS cop drama Big Apple, has told the New York Post why he selected a series so different from Married ... with Children for his comeback. O'Neill, who played Al Bundy on the long-running Fox sitcom, remarked, "I'm glad I did Married ... with Children and I liked making all that money and we all had a lot of laughs. But there's that dramatic side, which people seem to respect more. There's that level of respect that dramatic actors get that comedic actors often don't."

Source: Studio Briefing