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...Creator Shonda Rhimes should have just gone the CSI route and titled this spin-off Grey's Anatomy: Los Angeles. Addison Forbes Montgomery (Kate Walsh) hooks up with a group of doctors whose personal entanglements, snappy dialogue and eccentric medical-ethics dilemmas add up to Grey's in a warmer climate. Fine if that's all you need, but if you're sick of TV clones, Practice is not the cure...
...Grey’s Anatomy,” Dr. Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez) delivers an unusual rumination on the sexual mores of surgical interns: “We’re all 17 years old. This is high school with scalpels.”In this confession, Shonda Rhimes—who wrote the episode and created the series—echoes a similar statement from the mouth of Jerry Seinfeld from his self-titled show: “Our lives. What kind of lives are these? We’re like children, we?...
...reality programming or shows dealing in danger, terrorism and uncertainty that mirror the real world, the problems of five surgical interns and their bosses at Seattle Grace seem refreshingly familiar. "This is an old-fashioned show, and that's what makes it feel fresh," says creator and executive producer Shonda Rhimes, a black woman who has made a conscious effort to increase diversity (both racial and gender) in the show's casting. "The high-tech plot-driven shows are fantastically exciting. We're an alternative." And unlike Meredith's dilemma, there's no uncertainty about which option viewers of Grey...
Staying at home with her infantdaughter, screenwriter Shonda Rhimes discovered pretty quickly that there were basically two things to do: change diapers and watch television. And watch she did--day and night, she confesses. But she found the females on TV a boring bunch. "They seemed to exist purely in relation to the men in their lives," she says. "Women I knew were competitive and a little snarky and had their share of bad days. There wasn't a show out there about women who seemed like them...
More than half the characters on Grey's Anatomy are African American or female, although Rhimes insists she didn't write race into it at all. Her script for the pilot had no physical descriptions other than gender. But it came naturally to her to cast that way. "Shonda sees the world through the eyes of human beings. That's the bottom line," says Washington, who says his role as the brilliant surgeon has finally allowed him to break away from playing so many stereotypical thug roles. "Her characterizations are definitely her strong suit," says ABC Entertainment chief Stephen McPherson...