Miles Silverberg

(Played by Grant Shaud):

Bio: Miles grew up the second child of Nathan and Connie Silverberg, two liberals who founded just about every coalition there is. They took there son to many protests at a young age along with many other things such as trying to make him play softball in the nude for an alternative lifestyle convention. They also tended to embarrass Miles, doing things such as dressing up as dolphins during his prom to protest the serving of tuna. His older brother, Josh, always seemed to outshine him and handed him down all his things.

At a young age, Miles Silverberg didn't want to be Batman or a Cowboy. He believed that the real heroes on TV were the reporters. In 1977, at the age 14 or 15, he visited the set of FYI for the first time in his life while they were still in rehearsals and vowed that this is what he would work on when he grew up. Later in his life, while he saw Murphy on the show, he thought to himself that if there was anyone he would want to work with, it would be her.

Miles would get his wish. After skipping a grade in high school and graduating out of Harvard, Miles would replace Irvin as executive producer of FYI while Murphy was at Betty Ford. His first official act was to put Corky Sherwood, who was hired before as Murphy's temporary replacement, on full time due to the ratings that she brought in. He impressed Murphy right away with his persistence as a journalists and the fact he never gave up.

During George Bush's inaugural Ball, Miles asked out a co-worker named Jackie (I forget which department she works in.). This relationship ended by Valentines day of that year when she broke up with him.

At the beginning of the second season, Miles's brother, Josh came over. Murphy met Josh and decided to go out (Miles however was not pleased and made several hilarious cracks at her age since Josh was much younger.) Deciding to double date, Miles brought along a girl named Audrey Cohen he was meaning to go out with in the past but hadn't got around to. Because Miles didn't want to reveal this was their first date, he had her pretend they had been seeing each other much often in the past, which resulted on some funny stories on her part she made up.

A few weeks later, while on his vacation, his flight was delayed in Tobago and he had to miss the broadcast. Not only that, but the biggest story of the year was going on: An air pilot was threatening to detonate nuclear missiles unless his wife reconciles with him. As you can guess, Miles was the only reporter who was near the pilot and stole a car phone so he could be interviewed. In that episode, he revealed how truly important informing the public is to him and risked his life for an interview.

On New Years Eve of that year (The party at Corky's apartment), Miles brought along Audrey out for the second time. They would finally become a couple at the end of the second season when Miles brought her on their third date to Corky's wedding. (You know, I don't know if this means anything to you, but since a lot of people have been asking about it, yes, Miles once had an episode guest starring Teri Hatcher. She played a woman named Madeline who was his secret admirer and sent him notes via fax.) During this season, he has also been shown to have laid his job on the line in protest when the network tried to censor a story.

Miles has been shown to have had trouble committing to Audrey, who was pestering for them to move in together. When she lost her job and could no longer afford to keep her apartment, Miles made a quick decision to have Murphy hire her. Not a bright idea, because her being there the whole time he was at work "suffocated" him and he decided to break up. To make him jealous, Audrey went out with Frank. This relationship ended when she realized that she was only dating him to make Miles jealous. She and Miles dated again, and she quit her job (Just like all of Murphy's competent secretaries.)

On his thirtieth birthday, Miles nearly had a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. His doctor warned that the way Miles handled his stress, diet and lifestyle was harmful to him. He heeded his words and instead of keeping his stress bottled up inside, he exploded at people when he was angry. It did lower his stress count, however.

Also during that season, he has questioned his sexuality after having a dream about his new gay co-worker Rick involving the Washington monument (Corky, who will ironically be his future wife, was the only one who seemed to be highly involved in this fact by setting him up on dates with her priest and things like that.). After a talk with Rick discussing his lifestyle, Miles was convinced he wasn't.

While on a trip to New York (And by this time Audrey and Miles were living together.) , Miles decided he would propose to Audrey by taking her to a Redskin's game with sideline passes while the scoreboard flashed "Audrey, will you marry me?" Unfortunately, Miles was so busy he didn't even notice that she had already left him due to his obsession to work (In actuality, they were planning on marrying the two but she left to play Daphne on the popular sitcom, Frasier.). Afterwards, the tickets were given to Frank, then to Jim, then to Murphy and Peter Hunt, then to Corky who took Miles with her (And got hit while their from behind by a football play.).

(Note: Please thank Michelle, another fan on AOL, for this information. It's a long story, but I missed the entire 7th season of Murphy Brown. My local network doesn't have to rights to this season either, so that means I'll have to wait until next season when reruns come on Lifetime.)

The following season, while having his friend's helping him move to another apartment, he was left alone with Corky and they got to discussing their love lives. When he asked her how he could could repay her, she asked him to take her out to dinner. Thinking it was just between friend's, he accepted.

While there, Murphy and Peter (Now dating) interrupted this and asked to join in. After Corky went to the restroom saddened, there was a typical TV scene and Miles realized that this was in fact a date. He was alarmed because Corky was like a sister to him and his employee. Later discussing this in the events in the car, they agreed that dating would be a bad idea but then kissed. The next day in Murphy's office, Corky talked about the relationship with Miles. Murphy, unaware of what had happened after she left, told Corky that Miles was uninterested, which made Corky to dump Murphy's fish bowl over Miles's head. They later discussed this in the car and agreed that dating could be interesting but they decided not to.

The next time this would be brought up would be the Valentine's episode, "Rumble in the Alley." They talked and found they had a lot in common. Unfortunately, a little later on the series Miller Redfield came back for Corky and to be a part of a new show, "The Next Wave," which Miles was to produced. The lack of time for Miles seeped into his relationship with Corky and they both realized he didn't have enough time for her, making her start to date Miller.

After Jim's advice, Miles tried to make Corky jealous by going out with super model Vendela, whom he had met because one of his journalists had an interview with her. Miles, Vendela, Murphy, Corky and Miller all went to join Murphy while she previewed food at a restaurant. This episode (In which Vendela left Miles since he seemed too interested with Corky, then all but Murphy left also.) was one of the big preludes before the next episode, where Miles was attending Peter's bachelor party. Corky, having broken up with Miller, stopped by to give Frank his wallet and caught up with Miles. After meeting, they kissed and were then kicked out, running to the Caymen Islands to get married.

(Okay, the rest is stuff I know.)

Two days later, the two told their news to the FYI staff, who were shocked with the news and believed that they rushed into it, due to the hastiness of the marriage and the fact they hadn't even made living arrangements (Though Murphy was the only who went up to tell them this.). After being dragged later on later on by Murphy in order to talk to Corky, they confused their mutual feelings of regret to each other and nearly divorced, until they realized that it was only the speed of the marriage that was the problem and decided to stay married but go back to dating.

The next mention was about a month later when Corky and Miles finally wondered about consummating their marriage in an episode where Miles had to give a story to either Murphy or Corky. Corky was dissapointed in the fact that Miles thought that Corky was trying to use sex in order to get a story however and left. Around January, after wondering just how legit their marriage really was, they decided to have a real wedding and invited their families (It was this episode when they finally had an 'official' marriage also.). The episode ended in their families bickering, which in my opinion good a nice twist to typically corny episodes which other shows had used when dealing with this matter. In fact, it's second only to the Simpsons in originality, where Homer actually filed for divorce first just so it wouldn't be another of those lame episodes other shows did.

Miles was also tricked by Murphy to produce the show, "Front and Center". Near the end of the 8th season, budget cutbacks forced CBS to have to let go of both Corky and Frank because according to Phil, the network couldn't afford the 3 of them (I'd never thought I'd say this, but what happened to Miller? Isn't he a part of the show, making it 4 of them?). I never bought this though, because how the heck would the show survive with only Murphy for the entire hour (And if, by chance, it became Murphy and Miller, than it would be the same thing as Front and Center except it would be considered in the Entertainment division.).

Miles stood up to Stan which impressed him to the point of promoting Miles to oversee the entire news division (Now, I like Miles and all, but doesn't that seem like a bit much just for standing up to him?). He decided to go to the job in New York and has since left the show.