ShondaRhimes-related stories
Posted Aug 3rd 2009 1:00PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Grey's Anatomy, Spoilers Anonymous, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Shooting of Season 6 of
Grey's Anatomy has already begun which means only one thing: spoilers are leaking to the web!
Are Izzie and George dead of alive? Will Meredith be pregnant since actress Ellen Pompeo is? Who is returning to the show? Are they introducing new characters? These questions and more are answered in this
Grey's Anatomy update!
Warning! Spoilers coming up.Continue reading Grey's Anatomy update: past guest stars return, funeral in the works, etc.
Posted Jul 30th 2009 6:01PM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Reality-Free
Season six of
Grey's Anatomy is going to be odd. Getting past the fact that T.R. Knight isn't coming back, Ellen Pompeo is pregnant.
Shonda Rhimes has mentioned that Meredith will not get pregnant to coincide with Ellen so we'll either get
How I Met Your Mother-esque bump hiding, or Meredith will disappear for a while.
The only Grey left is Lexie Grey, Meredith's half-sister. Although her relationship with Mark is interesting to watch, could she carry the show's title albeit temporarily?
Continue reading Would you watch Lexie Grey's Anatomy?
Posted Jun 27th 2009 9:03AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
This is
Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at
TV Squad where we supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
tips form or by emailing us at
tvsquad at gmail dot com, or call and leave a message at
(775) 640-8479. Your anonymity is guaranteed, if you wish to remain as such.
Note that over the summer,
Spoilers Anonymous will be published every two weeks due to production hiatus for most TV series. Weekly columns will resume in August.
This week we have spoilers for:
90210, Desperate Housewives, Gossip Girl, Greek, Grey's Anatomy, House, NCIS: Los Angeles, One Tree Hill, Scrubs, Smallville, The Office and Ugly Betty. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!) Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted May 28th 2009 11:03AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Grey's Anatomy, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free
This season's
Grey's Anatomy ended on quite a tense note, with both George and Izzie's lives hanging in the balance. Izzie, of course, had been battling cancer for most of the season, while George was hit and then dragged down the street by a bus after pushing a young woman out of the way. The episode ended with both characters flat-lining, leaving fans to agonize for months over who survives. Now, however, it looks as though we may have an answer.
Both of the actors in question,
Katherine Heigl and
T.R. Knight, have made no secret of their displeasure with the show and their respective storylines as of late. Heigl pulled her name out of Emmy consideration last year, while Knight reportedly asked to be let out of his contract this past December. The behind-the-scenes grumbling has led to a great deal of speculation about who may live and who may die, but now
E! Online's Marc Malkin is reporting that he knows the fate of at least one of those two characters.
Continue reading Do we have an answer to the Grey's Anatomy cliffhanger?
Posted May 16th 2009 2:00PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Spoilers Anonymous, How I Met Your Mother, Casting, Reality-Free, Gossip Girl
This is
Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at
TV Squad where we supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
tips form or by emailing us at
tvsquad at gmail dot com, or call and leave a message at
(775) 640-8479. Your anonymity is guaranteed, if you wish to remain as such.
This week we have:
Desperate Housewives, One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, How I Met Your Mother, Grey's Anatomy, and Brothers & Sisters (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted Apr 14th 2009 3:02PM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Celebrities, Reality-Free
For months there has been speculation of Katherine Heigl and T.R. Knight leaving
Grey's Anatomy. The rumors of Izzie's possible death are being dealt with in the current storyline, but George's outcome has been dormant. Having several weeks without a new episode has stirred up some more rumors and speculation.
Entertainment Weekly has been suggesting that George will play a pivotal part of the end of the season. Without giving much plotline away, the rumors are that George may die. In interviews T.R. Knight has stated that he doesn't even know if George lives or dies. Shonda Rhimes is also tight-lipped about the situation. I've compiled the two arguments for discussion: for and against George's death.
Continue reading The curious case of George O'Malley
Posted Feb 25th 2009 9:02AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Casting, Reality-Free
Could Meredith be getting another half-sibling on Grey's Anatomy? According to Entertainment Weekly's Mike Ausiello, it's very likely.
In his latest installment of Ausiello TV, he notes that late last year, executive producer Shonda Rhimes began quietly looking for a male actor to play a mysterious new recurring role. The person had to be both bi-racial and in his late 20's.
Although we won't know for sure until next season, it seems likely that the character might be the product of the affair between Meredith's mother and the Chief, as their affair was 20-some years ago.
A few other things spring to mind:
Do doctors really sleep around this much? I mean, we know that Sloan, Callie, Izzie, and all the rest of the staff currently employed at Seattle Grace have bedded down pretty much everyone on the show. But apparently, that was happening 20 years ago, as well.
Continue reading Grey's news: Is Meredith getting another half-sibling?
Posted Feb 20th 2009 12:04PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S05E16) "In Human please Doctor Yang." - Doctor CampbellWhen I learned a few weeks back that Faye Dunaway was going to guest star this week, I was a tiny bit worried at what her role would be since
Grey's Anatomy has not been very good lately at introducing new characters and Dunaway deserves better. Luckily for her, the role of Doctor Margaret Campbell was introduced with some humor and her presence helped Cristina become a better doctor while touching the topic of when doctors should retire.
Continue reading Grey's Anatomy: An Honest Mistake
Posted Feb 13th 2009 3:02PM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
As a TV blogger, I've got to say this whole drama is exasperating. I'm a little tired of writing about Heigl, Knight and Shonda. I was even on the fence about choosing the "Reality-Free" category for this post, since the backstage hijinks of
Grey's Anatomy could give any reality show a run for their money.
On Wednesday, I reported that James Pickens let slip
that Heigl and Knight were leaving Grey's Anatomy. Yeah, that's not true, according to Shonda Rhimes. Rhimes says that rumors spread as fact and that Pickens' words were taken out of context.
Heigl and Knight are not leaving Grey's Anatomy, and that's a fact, again, according to Rhimes. Do I smell a cover (your ass) up, Shonda?
The original rumor stated that it wasn't a done deal because they were trying to negotiate story arcs for the characters for next season. That's a pretty detailed fact to be "just a rumor," if you ask me.
It will be very interesting to see what actually does take place when all is said and done. I'm exhausted, and I'm really starting to wonder if I'll ever care as much about Izzie and George in proportion to the amount of will-they-won't-they that has gone on.
Posted Dec 6th 2008 11:03AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show
I guess I'm not surprised to hear that Oprah Winfrey has been named the most powerful woman in entertainment. You can read the full list
here, in
The Hollywood Reporter's 17th annual "Women in Entertainment: Power 100" special issue.
OK, here's the thing about this. I really do get why
Oprah is powerful. She's in charge of her own show (remember years ago when she fought to gain control and fired a bunch of people?); she's launched a bunch of other shows, including
Rachel Ray, Dr. Phil, and maybe Dr. Oz coming up; she opened that school for girls in Africa; people read the books she recommends; they buy the stuff she likes; and she even had a hand in getting Obama into the White House.
Continue reading Dear Oprah: Power doesn't equal popularity
Posted Nov 11th 2008 12:24PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Dirty Sexy Money, Reality-Free, Life on Mars
A few days ago, ABC announced that
Lost would premiere on January 21 from 8 to 11 p.m. and that it would take the Wednesday at 9 p.m. timeslot starting the following week. That news left the
Private Practice fans wondering what would happen to their show come January 28 because the Wednesday at 9 p.m. timeslot has been
PP's for over a year.
Answers have arrived and they'll affect not only the
Private Practice fans but also
Life on Mars's viewers.
Continue reading More schedule shuffling at ABC
Posted Nov 3rd 2008 11:25PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Grey's Anatomy, Watercooler Talk, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Because I'm writing the
Spoilers Anonymous column every week, I'm pretty much up-to-date with what is going to happen in our favorite TV series. However, I never saw the latest news from
Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello coming. Reading comments left in response to Ausiello's announcement and
a post on the same subject written by E!'s Kristin Dos Santos, it looks like I'm not the only one extremely surprised by the news.
Usually, we get a few weeks warning before a major character leaves a series. But this time, we get about four days to prepare. As reported by Ausiello and many other entertainment media today, actress Brooke Smith is leaving the ABC hit series this Thursday. To learn more about her departure and what other tweaks the network asked the show to make, continue reading.
Spoilers ahead!Continue reading Hahn leaving Grey's Anatomy this week: was it because of lesbian storyline?
Posted Oct 9th 2008 10:23AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Private Practice, Reality-Free
Mainly because I watch
Pushing Daisies at 8, but also because I can't find much else to watch at 9, I've tuned into the first two episodes of
Private Practice's second season. During last year's aborted first season, I tuned in and out, curious to see how the
Grey's Anatomy spin-off was progressing. What I found was a) a show that was too busy making its thirty- and forty-something doctors act as immaturely as the twenty-something residents at Seattle Grace and b) that Kate Walsh's character of Addison Montgomery went from strong and funny to whimpering and lovelorn.
The second development was especially disheartening, since Addison had become my favorite
Grey's character by far, mainly because through sheer force of her acting ability, Walsh was able to turn Addison from a one-dimensional enemy of the Meredith-Derek relationship to the surgeon we rooted for the hardest.
But in the first two episodes, most of what I liked about Addison has returned. And what isn't there is on the way to coming back.
Continue reading It's good to see the old Addison Montgomery back
Posted Sep 2nd 2008 2:38PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Video, Grey's Anatomy, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free
As a fan of
Grey's Anatomy from the beginning, I was disappointed with last season. The characters were wandering around with seemingly no direction, Meredith and Derek were getting on my last nerve, and there was a storyline that revolved around resuscitating a
deer. It was not exactly the finest example of television I had ever seen.
Regardless, I'm excited about the fifth season, premiering on September 25.
Shonda Rhimes has always struck me as the type of producer and writer who listens to fans and can remove herself from her product enough to realize that something isn't working.
It seems as though my faith is already being rewarded. In a new promo for season 5, Rose, the nurse that Derek had been dating while trying to get over Meredith,
drops a bombshell: she's pregnant! Now
that's a way to get me interested in this storyline again.
Video of the promo and spoilers about Rose's revelation follow after the jump.Continue reading Grey's shocker: does Rose have a big secret?--VIDEO
Posted Jul 25th 2008 7:33PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, TCA Press Tour, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
So I've been back from LA for a couple of days, watching Rich and Keith file frantic reports from Comic-Con. It just makes me shake my head in sympathy. Though CC is a different animal from the TCAs, in both structure and in sheer volume of people and activities, I still know exactly how they feel. It all starts to feel like a blur after awhile -- panels, reporter scrums, parties, meeting your favorite (and not-so-favorite) TV stars... When you get back to "normal life," it almost feels like it never happened.
Anyway, now that I have a day or two to reflect, I took
a cue from our friends at AOL and came up with a list of things I learned on this press tour. But this list will involve both the network-related things I learned with what I learned about celebrities, my fellow critics, and myself.
Continue reading Things I learned from the press tour - TCA Report
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