This week's Grey's Anatomy featured a harrowing tale of a mother (Sarah Chalke) trying to get her son treatment, even though every time he was diagnosed, it ended up being wrong. The tale was meant to help viewers in case their children were afflicted with the same baffling ailment, Kawasaki Disease — which will hopefully pay off in the long run.
However, it was through this story...
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Oy vey. Or as Virginia Chance (Martha Plimpton) might mangle her Hebrew-isms: "Molotov! (for mazel tov)." Fox sure doesn't make it easy to say goodbye to Raising Hope as it ends its third season on a new night with back-to-back episodes (9/8c), the sort of treatment you'd normally see from a network burning off a show in which it has lost faith. Thankfully, that's not the case here. Hope has already been picked up for a fourth season, and it goes out on a delightfully deranged musical high, with Burt (the sublime Garret Dillahunt) center stage as he frantically preps for his overdue Bar Mitzvah.
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Sarah Chalke is back in the hospital!
The Scrubs alum heads to Grey's Anatomy this week for a story that's based on her own experience in dealing with her son's diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease, an illness that inflames blood vessels in the body and is difficult to diagnose — which is exactly why Chalke was so willing to share her family's story in hopes of helping others affected by the disease who may not know it.
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Sarah Chalke has traded Sacred Heart for Seattle Grace. The former Scrubs star is heading to Grey's Anatomy this spring, TVGuide.com has confirmed. TVLine first reported the news.
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"Why just watch if you can feel?" As new-season slogans go, ABC's feels ... well, a bit clingy and demanding. Back off, ABC. I'll feel you when I'm good and ready.
But the proof is in the programming, and ABC's new fall schedule — unveiled during Tuesday's Lincoln Center upfront presentation — feels like something I'll be spending a fair amount of time analyzing, and perhaps even enjoying, in the season to come. (See the full lineup here.)
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