Dame Edna Everage is to become a permanent member of the cast of struggling American comedy Ally McBeal, it was revealed ... who played a woman who was "undateable".

Ally McBeal fans remember that the show had a unisex ... series' titular character but instead will follow a young Black woman who joins Cage and Fish fresh out of law school.

But Ally McBeal also feels akin to Sex and the City. Both shows, featuring single, professional women in the late ’90s and early 2000s, were attempts at a feminist statement that layered comedy ...

Flockhart shot to mega-stardom in the late 1990s as the star of “Ally McBeal” about a quirky Boston lawyer with miniskirts and maxi-neuroses — a role she reprised at the Emmys in January.