Bergen says she wouldn’t be doing Murphy Brown again if the election went the opposite. “If the election had gone a different way if Hillary had been elected, there would have been no question of the show coming back because it would have been nice in our minds, but then we thought about it” [ series creator ] Diane [ English ] once told CBS when Sarah Palin was running with McCain that she said I need only six episodes, “Bergen told CBS News. “Then it petered out because it was guided solely by the abundance of content that is spun every day out of the White House.”