October 28, 2008
After recently announcing that his wife and star of How I Met Your Mother Alyson Hannigan is pregnant with their first child, Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Alexis Denisof will appear on Private Practice as an expecting father – with two pregnant wives. TV Guide reports that Denisof will play prospective daddy with a case of Big Love on the November 19th episode of the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off. As a refresher, Hannigan, 34, is expected to give birth to their first child on the spring of 09. The two met on the set of Buffy during the 1999 season and eventually got married in a resort near Palm Springs, California on October of 2003.
As Denisof’s character Rudy arrives at Oceanside Wellness, he comes in with a pregnant woman in tow. He then returns later with another pregnant woman in need of Dr. Addie Montgomery’s (Kate Walsh) attention. Surely, Hannigan must be praying it’s all fiction and has nothing to do with real life events. Curiously, the episode is entitled “Serving Two Masters.”
October 22, 2008
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Private Practice may not be getting much buzz as its mother ship series Grey's Anatomy but it has certainly pulled enough ratings for ABC to grant the sophomore drama a back-nine order. This renewal marks the latest network series to get a full-season pickup, following NBC's Knight Rider and Chuck, CBS' The Mentalist, FOX's Fringe and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and CW's 90210.
When Private Practice kicked off on September 26, 2007, the medical drama raised a few doubtful eyebrows as some critics panned the show as a letdown from its predecessor, Grey's Anatomy, from which the character of Addison Montgomery originated. Gradually, though, the show attracted a solid fan base that has sustained its hype every Wednesday night in between airings of Dancing with the Stars and Dirty Sexy Money.
October 8, 2008
Left with little chance to survive, the big network medical dramas seemed to have incurred an epidemic of low ratings last time. They entered the fall season with a lot of problems, leftover issues and the fate of many characters hanging in the balance. There was no doubt that one of the shows victim to this disease is ABC's Private Practice. The Grey's Anatomy spin-off features Addison (Kate Walsh) growing further away from her original character. She is almost unrecognizable as her former self, and the doctors she was surrounded with don't help either. However, it seems as though the show is starting things anew, joining the ranks of the other medical dramas it emerged with.
Though many easily blamed the infamous writer's strike, the problems still lay in the shows themselves. Grey's Anatomy ended in a disastrous slump, turning more into a soap opera than a medical drama. There was more focus in the moldy Derek-Meredith question than what was important: saving other peoples' lives.
October 2, 2008
Questions on bioethics are faced weekly on ABC’s Private Practice, the spin-off of the hugely successful series, Grey’s Anatomy. Having recently begun its second season, Private Practice executives assure fans that things are going to get heavier this time around.
There’s more drama afoot, and series creator Shonda Rhimes has revealed that the doctors will be dealing more with real issues that could cause controversies. “We're telling stories that will provide a lot of moral debate among our doctors and maybe debate at home when you watch,” Rhimes explained.
October 1, 2008
After a very long break, Private Practice returns tonight for a whole new season of dysfunctional doctors trying to find their way through life. It's been a long while since Private Practice has been on the air. Along with its Wednesday night neighbors Pushing Daisies and Dirty Sexy Money, Private Practice ended its abbreviated freshman season way back in December of last year due to the WGA strike.
Over the summer, Shonda Rhimes, the creator of Private Practice and its progenitor Grey's Anatomy, and her cast of ridiculously good-looking actors talked to television critics about how she is planning to reboot the show for its second season.
September 3, 2008
Fans of Sarah Drew are happy to know that the 27-year-old Everwood actress is slowly making her way back to television with a number of guest appearances. Previously, she had a little cameo on AMC’s Mad Men, and then just last month, she landed a role in the CW’s new drama series, Privileged, which is created by Everwood’s writer, Rina Mimoun. On Privileged, Drew is playing Joanna Garcia’s best friend. Drew will only appear in the eight episode, but this doesn’t mean that her stay will be brief. In fact, Mimoun believes that Drew is someone they all can’t get enough of.
"You can't just have her on once," Mimoun told Entertainment Weekly last month. "[Her Everwood character] Hannah was never supposed to be on for more than, like, a two-episode arc, and she ended up staying forever!"