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By Daniel D'Addario 8/25/11 5:16pm

Shonda Rhimes Goes Back to the Gilded Age

Someone’s been reading her Thorstein Veblen! Read More

By Christopher Rosen 5/15/09 4:02pm

Fade to Black: Are Television Cliffhangers The Industry’s Next Great Dying Commodity?

Here are five words we never thought we’d type: Thank goodness for Shonda Rhimes! The talent-deprived showrunner of Grey’s Anatomy left us with a doozy of a cliffhanger heading into the summer. Both Izzie (disgruntled actress Katherine Heigl) and George (disgruntled actor T.R. Knight) were left on the precipice of death as last night’s season Read More

By Christopher Rosen 2/11/09 1:33pm

How Will Grey’s Anatomy Get Rid of T.R. Knight, Anyway?

By now you’ve no doubt heard the completely unsurprising news that Katherine Heigl and T.R. Knight are going to leave Grey’s Anatomy at the end of the current season. James Pickens Jr., better known as the Chief of Seattle Grace hospital, spilled the beans to US Weekly during this past weekend’s NAACP Awards Read More

By Christopher Rosen 1/13/09 3:59pm

Yet Another Doctor Leaves Grey’s Anatomy! Also, The Sun Rises

If it’s Tuesday, it must be time for another Grey’s Anatomy cast member to leave the show. In what seems like a weekly occurrence, Entertainment Weekly‘s Michael Ausiello is reporting that Australian actress Melissa George is exiting the show of her own accord. No word yet on when Ms. George’s final episode will air, Read More

By Christopher Rosen 12/09/08 3:45pm

Another Grey’s Anatomy Star Hates the Show!

We hope some ambitious key grip is keeping detailed notes about the behind-the-scenes histrionics that take place at Grey’s Anatomy on a weekly basis. If it’s as crazy as it sounds, a fantastic tell-all book is waiting for us in the future. Last night, the drama surrounding the making of Grey’s Anatomy officially superseded the Read More

By Christopher Rosen 12/05/08 4:04pm

Grey’s Antaomy Dead Man Walking Twist Revealed!

We have asked ourselves the full gamut of questions concerning Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl) having sex with her long dead finance Denny (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) on Grey’s Anatomy: What is this? Are they joking? Why are we watching this? Seriously, are they joking? However the one question we can’t seem to wrap our head around Read More

By Christopher Rosen 3:54pm

Grey’s Anatomy Goes Supernatural, Gets Even Worse

Are you all caught up on Grey’s Anatomy? Good! Then we have a question for you: what exactly are we watching? Knee deep into the show’s fifth season, most of the press bestowed upon Grey’s has been about the casting. Amazingly, no one seems to be talking about the actual content of the show, which Read More

By Christopher Rosen 11/12/08 3:42pm

Grey’s Anatomy Hires Awesome Doctor!

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes. She had to fire actress Brooke Smith, setting off a hailstorm of criticism stemming from the fact that the actress was part of the show’s first lesbian relationship with fellow actress Sara Ramirez. And while we still tend to believe Ms. Read More

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Shonda Rhimes Goes Back to the Gilded Age

Fade to Black: Are Television Cliffhangers The Industry’s Next Great Dying Commodity?

How Will Grey’s Anatomy Get Rid of T.R. Knight, Anyway?

Yet Another Doctor Leaves Grey’s Anatomy! Also, The Sun Rises

Another Grey’s Anatomy Star Hates the Show!

Grey’s Antaomy Dead Man Walking Twist Revealed!

Grey’s Anatomy Goes Supernatural, Gets Even Worse

Grey’s Anatomy Hires Awesome Doctor!

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