Editing Cybill (section)

==Plot==
''Cybill'' takes place in Los Angeles and focuses on the character of a somewhat faded actress, Cybill Sheridan (played by [[Cybill Shepherd]]), who, because of her age, had been relegated to playing [[character actor|character roles]], bit parts, and TV commercials.<ref>{{cite magazine|title= Cybill
|magazine= [[Entertainment Weekly|EW]] |url=https://www.ew.com/article/1995/01/13/cybill|access-date=2016-02-25}}</ref> Also featured are her daughters: headstrong Zoey (Witt) and uptight Rachel (Pfeiffer), two ex-husbands: Ira (Rosenberg) and Jeff (Wopat), and her hard-drinking best friend Maryann (Baranski).

Due to the show's premise, many episodes featured a [[show-within-a-show]] format, usually in the [[cold open]]s, showing Cybill Sheridan playing a variety of other characters in her various film and TV acting roles.<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Ray Loynd |url=https://variety.com/1994/tv/reviews/cybill-1200439592/ |title=Cybill |magazine=Variety |date=1994-12-29 |access-date=2016-02-24}}</ref>

In her autobiography, ''Cybill Disobedience'', Shepherd stated that the Cybill character was based on herself—or at least what her life as an actress could have been without the successes of ''[[The Last Picture Show]]'' and ''[[Moonlighting (TV series)|Moonlighting]]''. Many of the show's details and situations were mined from her own family, marriages, and experiences.<ref name="CD">''Cybill Disobedience''</ref>