Within months of the demise of "Murphy Brown", the actress was back on CBS, headlining her own sitcom "Maggie Winters" (1998-99), about a woman who returns to her hometown after a failed marriage and a string of dead-end jobs. After stints in routine TV movies and an addition to the cast of Norm McDonald's "The Norm Show" (ABC, 1999-2001), Ford found another moderate sit-com hit when she co-starred with Kelly Ripa in the ABC sit-com "Hope & Faith" (2003- ), playing a woman whose normal family life is disrupted when she takes in her self-involved, out-of-work soap actress sister (Ripa). Ford's Disney connections also helped land her a supporting role in the Vin Diesel comedy "The Pacifier" (2005).