October 2007 News Archive (Page 4)

Newlyweds Kate Walsh and Alex Young strolled on their way to a University of Southern California football game at the L.A. Coliseum Saturday.

The 38-year-old Walsh wore a brown leather jacket and jeans, and carried a USC maroon and gold blanket. Good thing they were playing Stanford and not Kate's alma mater and another Pac-10 rival, the University of Arizona!

With a handsome new husband and Private Practice doing well in the ratings so far, Kate Walsh has plenty to celebrate these days. Who cares if USC somehow lost to a team they were favored to beat by 41 points?

Don't call her a McShrink! Amy Brenneman says that Private Practice is much more than just a Grey's Anatomy spinoff. The Connecticut native and married mother of two talked a little with Us Weekly about the show recently.

Us: What attracted you to the show?
Amy Brenneman: They really set out to write about people 10 years older than the Grey's Anatomy crew, and all the funny and smart stuff that goes with having been around those 10 additional years.

Us: How is working with Kate Walsh?
Amy Brenneman: Wonderful! She's a lovely girl. She's classy, funny and very humble.

Us: You also star in The Jane Austen Book Club with Maria Bello and Emily Blunt. Was that fun to film?
Amy Brenneman: I loved hanging with the girls, and Emily Blunt made me laugh my ass off. She's a goofball. I haven't experienced this since high school, but we cracked each other up during scenes.

Us: How do you stay so fit?
Amy Brenneman: Between doing this job and having two kids, I don't! I laugh when I read, "Oh, she spends two hours in the gym every day." I'm like, No, she doesn't, she has two kids!

She may be a newcomer to prime time, but Audra McDonald is already winning rave reviews from her co-stars. TV Guide talked to the four-time Tony Award winner, who plays fertility specialist Naomi Bennett on Private Practice.

TVGuide.com: How is life on Private Practice these days?
Audra McDonald: I don't know if it's fortunate or unfortunate for the producers: The cast is a group of people who really like each other. So when we do group scenes, it's very difficult to get anything done because we're having too much fun. They always need to tell us to shut up.

TVGuide.com: Any scenes where that happened recently?
Audra McDonald: Any group scene you see, especially ones in the conference room. Those scenes probably took a long time because we wouldn't shut up.

TVGuide.com: You've won four Tony awards. How does being on Private Practice, and TV in general, compare to Broadway?
Audra McDonald: Well, the live audience certainly gives you a barometer in terms of how you're doing. It forces you to focus in a different way than you focus when someone yells, "Action!" The muscles that are flexed are the same, but there's something about the danger of being in front of a live audience — you only have that one chance; whereas, if you mess up, you can do it again on film.

TVGuide.com: Does your experience on stage help you nail scenes faster?
Audra McDonald: Not necessarily, because it's different. You're doing something over and over again. So you get a lot of chances to do it different ways. What's hard for me is the lack of continuity. You shoot a lot of scenes out of order; you shoot the end before you shoot the beginning.

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Last night's episode, "In Which Sam Receives an Unexpected Visitor," was at times intense. It was also the episode - or at least the title of the episode - ABC originally announced it was going to air next week, October 10.

In any event, follow this link to read our official episode guide to "In Which Sam Receives an Unexpected Visitor" if you missed it, or want to re-live the action!

Feel free to discuss the episode, too, in Private Practice Insider's FORUM by following this link. We will have our list of quotes, music and pictures from the episode up throughout the day to complete your viewing experience.

Last week's premiere of Private Practice didn't disappoint, and tonight's episode looks like another good one! Our FORUM is open for comments. Share your thoughts on "In Which Sam Receives an Unexpected Visitor" and everything else about the show before and after the show airs this evening.

Join the discussion here!

We've posted a couple of sneak preview clips from tonight's episode below, and Private Practice Insider will have its official episode guide, compilation of the night's music, list of memorable quotes and image gallery posted as soon as we can after the show to complete your viewing experience. Enjoy!

Below you will find a two-minute video clip from tonight's all-new episode of Private Practice. Believing Sam is in a rut, Pete and Cooper order up a special surprise for him, then try to watch from Addison's house... with funny results.

Looks like a good one on tap for 9 p.m. tonight! Follow the jump for yet another clip from tonight's episode, "In Which Sam Receives an Unexpected Visitor," in which Addison and Charlotte debate a controversial medical situation.

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Shonda Rhimes & Co. apparently got the message that in May's back-door pilot of Private Practice, Addison acted like too much of a whiner and wimp.

As a result, two changes were made by the producers late in production of the season opener last week, "In Which We Meet Addison ..." They were:

1. The opening scene where Addison resigns from Seattle Grace. This was going to be, initially, a casual little chat over coffee with Dr. Richard Webber in the Chief's office, instead of the more heated confrontation you saw. This, in fact, was such a last-minute change that the photos released by ABC (and posted on this site) depict the original version of the opener. See below:

2. Addison's big speech to the other doctors, which originally was to end with her admitting that she didn't have a big finish, which was to be followed by much mockery from the other docs. In the end, they added the big finish, including the whole "world-class surgeon" bit that left the other Oceanside Wellness doctors practically kneeling in her presence.

Small changes, to be sure. But what they have in common is that Dr. Addison Montgomery seems far more confident, aggressive and in control of her own destiny - in other words, the Addison everybody liked enough to make her deserving of her own Private Practice to begin with. And those changes suggest that someone finally got through to Shonda along those lines.

Baby steps, but steps in the right direction.