Ally McBeal is poised to return to our screens ... This 23-episode series introduces Robert Downey Junior as Larry Paul, a lawyer, who has a smouldering on/off romance with Ally.

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 ...