Chris Lowell
Chris Lowell recently gave us a few minutes of his time to preview what's ahead for Private Practice's William "Dell" Parker. For one thing, look for Oceanside Wellness' soon-to-return office manager/nurse to strike a spark with a mom-to-be played by Everwood alumna Sarah Drew.
Lowell also shares with us Dell's latest take on the not-gonna-be-with-Naomi situation, and teases the big adventures in "midwifery" to come. Check it out at this link.
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Wow. Now I know what Ron Burgandy meant when he said he was in a glass case of emotion! So much went on tonight. There was a poison Granny, a baby switch and a nasty stripper with a rash on her bum! Yuck! Speaking of bums, I loved how Sam was more concerned with Stripper Ginger's rash instead of the fact that she was gyrating in his face. He's my kind of guy! Another classic example of how men and women handle break-ups differently. Women bring ice cream over and men send strippers. Whatever works, I guess!Poison Granny was very clever. Malicious and insane, but very clever. I guess a mother really will do whatever it takes for her child. I would have had her butt hauled off to prison but Sam recognized the desperation in her actions and decided to go along with the scheme by telling her son he was allergic to alcohol and staging an intervention to get him help. Did anyone else feel bad for Violet? I did too, then I heard that she spent $6000 on a bike. Did this bike come with wings...
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Thank God my anticipation for this show didn't ruin the first episode for me. I was afraid I put a hex on the show by hyping it so much in my head. Sure, at first I wanted Addison to stay in Seattle and in Karev's arms, but I think I'm going to like her "one-man gyne show" in L.A.!I didn't think I was going to laugh when Sam saw Addison naked because it had been all over the commercials, but I did. She did the robot! Anyone doing the robot is hilarious, at least in my book.Overall, I felt this show had a different vibe than Grey's Anatomy. I liked that it was not set in a hospital and the conversations and issues were more grown-up and less petty. Don't get me wrong, I love my Grey's, but this new dynamic was refreshing. But, of course, it did mimic the wacky medical situations that seem to come out of nowhere. Addison will be delivering a three-headed baby in no time!I enjoyed the intense relationships that already exist between the characters and look forward to the new ones that ...
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Chris Lowell, Private Practice
ABC's Private Practice premieres this Wednesday. TVGuide.com is counting down to the Grey's spin-off's arrival with daily cast-member Q&As.
Chris Lowell has never had a problem attracting women. First he wooed no less than Veronica Mars. Now he's got the ladies on ABC's Private Practice (premiering Wednesday at 9 pm/ET) all hot and bothered. But there's more to this 22-year-old stud muffin than meets the eye. We caught up with Kate Walsh's youngest costar to dish about becoming a sexy symbol, jumping on the Grey's Anatomy bandwagon and teaming up with TV veterans.
TV Guide: What attracted you to Private Practice?
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Tim Daly and Kate Walsh by Ron Tom/ABC
Watching Thursday night's underwhelming, overly frenetic "backdoor pilot" setup for the seemingly inevitable Grey's Anatomy spin-off, I was reminded how blown away I wasn't by the original Grey's pilot as well. The Grey's pilot had its problems, but this glossy new twist on the formula seems much more problematic.When Grey's first appeared, with the pilot held for mid-season in a year when Lost and Desperate Housewives exploded on the scene and turned ABC's fortunes around, my initial thoughts were: Loved the cast. Liked the characters. But at first look, the reliance on heavy-handed voice-over (since dialed back a bit) and woe-is-me, life-as-an-intern-is-hard whining obscured many of the charms that would soon emerge, and it felt a bit generic.By the end of that first half-season, though, I was hooked. The heightened mix of hospital drama and romantic comedy, lathered in torrid and twisty soap operatics, was infectious, and the wonderfully blended (by sex and race) cast pulled it o...
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The things a girl has to do to stay on the air — especially an underdog like Veronica Mars (the insanely appealing Kristen Bell), that smart-as-a-whip cult hero/college detective for whom solving cases and breaking hearts is all in a day's work. If only she could rustle up some ratings while she's at it.
Trying to avoid what seems an almost inevitable death notice, Veronica Mars has returned from hiatus with a new format of stand-alone episodes in place of longer, convoluted mystery arcs. The good news is that simplifying Veronica doesn't mean dumbing down.
The show's virtues are intact: irony-laced banter, film noir-ish voice-overs with a twist ("Where's the sugar rush of sweet justice I should be feeling right now?") and deliciously tortured triangles, currently involving Veronica, poor- little-rich-boy Logan (Jason Dohring)
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Question: Why, oh why, would we want to switch to Team Pizonica when he is leaving to be on Grey's 2.0?
Answer: I'm enjoying it while it lasts. So sue me.
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Who's doing what this pilot season? From the Reporter:• Huff's two-time Emmy nominee, Oliver Platt, has joined ABC's D.C.-set British import, The Thick of It.• As first scooped by Ausiello, Chris Lowell (aka Veronica Mars' Piz) is set to guest-star on the Grey's Anatomy episode setting up the possible spin-off. Deets on Lowell's character, even his name, are being kept hush-hush. Hmmm....• Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls) joins Molly Stanton (Twins) and Dorian Brown as sorority sisters trying to clean up their act after college in an untiled Fox laffer.• Eric Winter (Wildfire) is a police detective in CBS' Viva Laughlin.• Reba's Steve Howey is The Beast in Fox's comedy about a womanizing veterinarian.• James D'Arcy is a lead agent on the hunt for E.T. sleeper cells in Fox's Them.• Thad Luckinbill (The Young and the Restless) has joined CBS' police serial Protect and Serve.
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Piz has hit the big time!Sources confirm that Chris Lowell — that's Veronica Mars' Piz to you — has joined the cast of the in-the-works Grey's Anatomy spin-off (or, as the lawyers over at ABC insist we call it, "The upcoming enhanced two-hour Grey's Anatomy episode with a potential for afterlife") executive produced by Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers and Mark Gordon.Althought this is fantastic news for Lowell and his growing legion of admirers, it probably doesn't bode well for Veronica Mars' renewal chances. Also not helping matters: the impressive premiere ratings for those damn Pussycat Dolls. Still, this is a huge break for Lowell, one of the nicest, most down-to-earth young actors in the biz. Let's hope success doesn't corrupt his soul.
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Kristen Bell, Veronica Mars
In Part 1 of our Q&A with Kristen Bell, the Veronica Mars star dished on her decision to dabble in big-screen horror (with Pulse, which opened at No. 5 this past weekend) as well as the (equally scary?) prospect of real-life marriage. Here in Part 2, the actress talks about Veronica Mars' own love life, hangin' out on the Gilmore Girls set, and making beautiful music.
TV Guide: Let's talk about Veronica Mars. What have you heard about how [series creator]
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