Eric McCormack is using his time off from "Will & Grace" this summer to romance a dead woman.

McCormack is headed to Vancouver for a multi-episode run on Showtime's "Dead Like Me," which opens its second season in July. The cable network says McCormack will make a "dramatic departure" from his "Will & Grace" character.

He'll play a reality-show producer named Ray Wright who pursues Daisy (Laura Harris), not knowing she's actually a reaper, one of the dead who mingles with the rest of us and takes people's souls just before they die.

McCormack won an Emmy in 2001 for playing gay lawyer Will Truman on NBC's "Will & Grace," which returns for seventh season in the fall. He's been nominated two other times, and has also earned five Golden Globe nods and a GLAAD Media Award for the role.

His other credits include "Free Enterprise," "Lonesome Dove: The Series" and "The Music Man" on Broadway.

The second season of "Dead Like Me" opens Sunday, July 25. Showtime has ordered 15 episodes, one more than last season.