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"Eric McCormack has revealed that he was happy to return to dramatic acting in new show Perception. The Will &amp;amp; Grace actor told Digital Spy that filming the crime drama - which airs on Watch in the UK - felt like &amp;quot;going back to [his] roots&amp;quot;.  &amp;quot;My bread-and-butter &amp;#039;til Will &amp;amp; Grace was drama, and often [playing] bad guys and corporate assholes,&amp;quot; McCormack explained. &amp;quot;So this very sympathetic gay lawyer on a comedy for me was the 180 degree [change].&amp;quot; &amp;quot;[My Perception character Dr Daniel Pierce] is nothing to do with Will, and I think hopefully that&amp;#039;ll make people interested, but also make it easier for them to believe.&amp;quot; Perception - which sees McCormack play the brilliant but schizophrenic Pierce - was picked up for a second season by US network TNT before the first had finished airing. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s been a long gestating [show] - we shot this pilot two years ago, in 2010,&amp;quot; the actor revealed. &amp;quot;So it was very rewarding that it did as well in America, in the summertime, as it did.&amp;quot; Perception continues tonight (Wednesday, October 10) at 9pm on Watch. &amp;gt; Perception&amp;#039;s Rachael Leigh Cook: &amp;#039;We go further down the rabbit hole&amp;#039; Watch a trailer for Perception below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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