Avery. That'll be the baby's name.
Television's Murphy Brown has decided to name her infant son after her late mother, Avery, TV Guide reports in its Oct. 31 issue.In past episodes, Murphy - played by Candice Bergen - tried out such names as Robert Kennedy Brown and Adlai Stevenson Brown.
"We have hundreds of suggestions," said the CBS show's executive producer, Gary Dontzig. A viewer suggested Avery Brown, Dontzig said, but he added, "We thought of it first."
The baby-naming episode of "Murphy Brown" will air Nov. 9 during the fall sweeps, one of the ratings-monitoring periods used to set advertising rates.
Murphy's mother was portrayed by Colleen Dewhurst, who died last year.
TV Guide also said Murphy's search for a nanny will end when her resident house painter, Eldin, played by Robert Pastorelli, gets the job.