My feeling is - although I hope I'm wrong - is that if the spin off flops then that will hurt Grey's ratings in turn too.
I just think that it's too risky - even for Grey's - to do a spin off so soon and take a main, and major, character off the original.
Gloria Says:
March 29th, 2007 9:08 PM
I have to admit I did not like Addison when she first appeared on GA. ( I have this thing about ANYONE interfering with Der and Mer. But, as time has moved on so have I. I REALLY like her, now ,that she and derrick are divorced. I also like Kate as an actor and a real person. I too was not comfortable with a spin off from Grey's in the (3) Season. It just seemed to soon for that. I really thought it would be disastrous. But, now I 'm going to watch and wait and see. I will miss her on grey's and I do wish her all the success she deserves. I just don't want the writing for grey's to get lost in the schuffle. There are still hundreds of story lines that need to be told about each character on grey's. Just PLEASE don't lose this momentumn.
SpoilerFix Says:
March 29th, 2007 9:21 PM
There is a clause in KWs contract, so that if this flops, she goes back to Greys.
susy Says:
March 30th, 2007 4:19 AM
goodbye Addison! I hate her a lot and ABC made me a big gift.
Jackie MM Cambridge Says:
March 30th, 2007 6:02 AM
In the spin off can Denny come back???? no only kidding.. I like Addison and i will watch the spin off if its shown in UK but I would not like anything to detract from Greys...It is truley the best thing ever... I love Izzie.....She needsa good man to cheer her up.....this time one who stays alive.
We're especially excited about the introduction of the clueless male gyno, who'll meet Addison after she accidentally walks on him in the middle of administering a pelvic exam to a woman he's asking for love-life advice, a character-establishing encounter that will be punctuated by a wisecracking nurse practitioner who declares with an eye-roll, "For a guy who spends all day staring into vaginas, you sure don't know anything about the opposite sex, doc!" Later, to the surprise of no one, Addison and the gynecologist will have an impulsive sexual encounter in an unoccupied exam room that complicates her romantic pursuit of Taye Diggs, setting up the first season's primary romantic storyline.
LA Says:
March 30th, 2007 12:05 PM
Team Private Practice! I've been disappointed in Grey's of late. I think it's lost the edge that made it so special in seasons 1 and 2. Hopefully, Shonda will find that edge again in a fresh start, and the character of Addison is a perfect "jumping off" point.
To me, the best thing they can do is put Private Practice on Thursday nights at 10:00.
Cherish Says:
March 30th, 2007 3:28 PM
I love Kate Walsh and I am totally gonna give the show a chance. If it doesn't work out, she has that clause in her contract that says she can go back to Grey's Anatomy. So either way, I'm happy.
McSeriously Says:
March 30th, 2007 4:35 PM
sounds kewl
lucy Says:
March 31st, 2007 10:34 AM
i really want her to stay in the show and ill even watch it but still.. its not greys anatomy w/o kate walsh/addison.
mcdreamylove1 Says:
April 2nd, 2007 2:04 PM
wait so greys anatomy will keep on air even if the spin-off works(which i hope it doesnt)?
i dont really like addison because I LOVE MCDREAMY,DEREK, PATRICK DEMPSEY, but still i want her to stay on the show . I vote 4 addisex (addison + alex) i think shell cheat on mcsteamy with alex. like she hasnt done it before , you saw what she did to derek.
Debra Sue Says:
April 4th, 2007 5:22 PM
First of all, I think that Grey's is losing its touch. Second season was awesome and third is stuggling to match. Kate Walsh is an awesome actress and I love her, but I fear for her career in GA. Frankly I fear for GA. If the show flops...will it be the end of GA as we know. Will it slowly crumbling like the Russian Empire, once great, then taken over by the own citizens? What is GA falls because of the viewers? Personally, GA need a boost, I'm just not sure how, but I know Private Practice can't be the solution. Anyway, when the show Private Practice, they better show it on a different night at 9:00 ( I can't stay up to 10:00 to watch T.V ) Anyway, Kate Walsh is hot and amazing!!!
Marlene Finnegan Says:
April 5th, 2007 7:54 PM
I am really tired of not seeing the show Grey's Anatomy continue on a regular basis. They just don't seem to care if we continue to watch current programs. Just drop the plot like a hot potato and put on what they please without any warning. Discusting! ABC needs to wise up.
rayofsunshine Says:
April 17th, 2007 3:57 PM
It's good for Kate, and even better for the character of Addison, so good luck to both of them on the new spin-off!
im excited for the show because that means that addison and alex have to hook up first. I've been waiting for that for like EVER. I wonder what mark does because it says that he "fails" at his 60 no sex thingy. Hmmm... i wonder who it is that makes him "fail"???
Devo Says:
April 24th, 2007 4:35 PM
From what I understand it's in Walsh's contract that if the spinoff fails, she goes back to GA. Wouldn't YOU make that a condition of the deal? The woman's busted her butt for years in Hollywood. Give her a break and support the spinoff. Plus, she'll FINALLY get all the screen time she deserves. Not the blink-and-you'll-miss-em entrances and exits she's been given in many of the last GA episodes. If you're inspired by/admire strong, independent, accomplished women, then
WATCH the spinoff/support the show. If yu just like Addison, WATCH the spinoff/support the show.
Grey's Sweetheart Says:
April 26th, 2007 12:57 PM
Devo, you're so right!!! Kate Walsh worked her butt off all her life. At 14, she was working in a Burger King. She typed up reports for her stepfather to make money. All this woman knows is to work and work. I feel sorry for her. She worked as a waiteress in Manhatten, she worked everywhere!!! She deserves this. I'll watch totally watch it. I was going to watch it anyway. I LOVE HER!!! She deserves more than 2 seconds. Sometimes, I think she's not even in the episode! Yet, she's an awesome actress that should be in award winning movies!!
Nany Says:
April 29th, 2007 3:42 PM
I heart Kate Wlash and especially Addi i want her deaaaaaaaaaadddddddd
tabitha Says:
May 4th, 2007 8:22 AM
I love the new show and I like Kate's personality better in it!
Danielle Says:
May 4th, 2007 9:53 AM
I loved the show last night!! I was thinking to myself that it would make a kick ass spin off!! Guess I was the last to know lol. I am a HUGE fan of Taye Diggs and his wife Idina Menzel and I hope that this show does aire because I want him to bounce back onto the screen. I love Kate Walsh and I think the move would be good for Addison but if she did move, I doubt that Grey's Anatomy would be completely out of the picture.
New Grey's fam Says:
May 4th, 2007 4:30 PM
The Other Side of This Life was the 2nd time I watched Greys Anatomy. I am now a fan. I loved the characters in California so much. I was hoping it would spin off. Please spin.
Alexandra Says:
May 5th, 2007 1:30 AM
LOVE THE SPIN-OFF!!
Please keep it!!
Don't get me wrong, I still love watching Grey's Anatomy and I will continue to watch it but I really felt that Kate Walsh wasn't getting enough screen time and Addison is such a cool character, so it makes me excited that there will be a show dedicated to her.
Keep it coming!
Alexandra Says:
May 5th, 2007 1:41 AM
all those that think Kate should go back to GA:
I just read an interview with Kate Walsh and she said that she is so happy to be working with a new ensemble and is excited for the spin off. She said that she doesn't know what will happen if Private Practice doesn't continue, and that she might now go back to GA.
Do you really want to risk that? I mean, come on! Addison is just a character. She's barely been on GA and even so she wasn't happy. Its not like Kate Walsh is going to play a different character in Private Practice, she's STILL Addison.
Kate is happy. Addison is happy. With the new show there is a wide range of possible storylines and the cast is awesome. Why would you jeprodize that?
What if Kate decided not to go back to GA? Then you would totally lose Addison.
I think that they should keep the new show. I hope that the ratings go up because I thoroughly enjoyed last thursday's episode.
P.S- I am a big GA fan, don't get me wrong.
Can't you be both a GA fan and a Private Practice fan?
Acil Says:
May 6th, 2007 2:41 PM
I have to admit I thought the spin-off was a horrible idea ... buuuut..
I absolutely LOVED the two hour episode introducing Private Practice.
It was so good ! I cant believe people are against this. Two is always better than one! Kate Walsh is still Addison, that means Private Practice will still inter-mingle with GA every now and then. I'm so excited. More story lines, and now it's almost like a double dose of Grey's Anatomy a week!
How could you not love this?
March 29th, 2007 5:57 PM
My feeling is - although I hope I'm wrong - is that if the spin off flops then that will hurt Grey's ratings in turn too.
I just think that it's too risky - even for Grey's - to do a spin off so soon and take a main, and major, character off the original.
March 29th, 2007 9:08 PM
I have to admit I did not like Addison when she first appeared on GA. ( I have this thing about ANYONE interfering with Der and Mer. But, as time has moved on so have I. I REALLY like her, now ,that she and derrick are divorced. I also like Kate as an actor and a real person. I too was not comfortable with a spin off from Grey's in the (3) Season. It just seemed to soon for that. I really thought it would be disastrous. But, now I 'm going to watch and wait and see. I will miss her on grey's and I do wish her all the success she deserves. I just don't want the writing for grey's to get lost in the schuffle. There are still hundreds of story lines that need to be told about each character on grey's. Just PLEASE don't lose this momentumn.
March 29th, 2007 9:21 PM
There is a clause in KWs contract, so that if this flops, she goes back to Greys.
March 30th, 2007 4:19 AM
goodbye Addison! I hate her a lot and ABC made me a big gift.
March 30th, 2007 6:02 AM
In the spin off can Denny come back???? no only kidding.. I like Addison and i will watch the spin off if its shown in UK but I would not like anything to detract from Greys...It is truley the best thing ever... I love Izzie.....She needsa good man to cheer her up.....this time one who stays alive.
March 30th, 2007 7:40 AM
I read a few more details about the new spin off at
http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/greys-anatomy/the-greys-anatomy-spin+off-just-as-delightfully-quirky-as-the-original-series-248197.php
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March 30th, 2007 7:41 AM
We're especially excited about the introduction of the clueless male gyno, who'll meet Addison after she accidentally walks on him in the middle of administering a pelvic exam to a woman he's asking for love-life advice, a character-establishing encounter that will be punctuated by a wisecracking nurse practitioner who declares with an eye-roll, "For a guy who spends all day staring into vaginas, you sure don't know anything about the opposite sex, doc!" Later, to the surprise of no one, Addison and the gynecologist will have an impulsive sexual encounter in an unoccupied exam room that complicates her romantic pursuit of Taye Diggs, setting up the first season's primary romantic storyline.
March 30th, 2007 12:05 PM
Team Private Practice! I've been disappointed in Grey's of late. I think it's lost the edge that made it so special in seasons 1 and 2. Hopefully, Shonda will find that edge again in a fresh start, and the character of Addison is a perfect "jumping off" point.
To me, the best thing they can do is put Private Practice on Thursday nights at 10:00.
March 30th, 2007 3:28 PM
I love Kate Walsh and I am totally gonna give the show a chance. If it doesn't work out, she has that clause in her contract that says she can go back to Grey's Anatomy. So either way, I'm happy.
March 30th, 2007 4:35 PM
sounds kewl
March 31st, 2007 10:34 AM
i really want her to stay in the show and ill even watch it but still.. its not greys anatomy w/o kate walsh/addison.
April 2nd, 2007 2:04 PM
wait so greys anatomy will keep on air even if the spin-off works(which i hope it doesnt)?
i dont really like addison because I LOVE MCDREAMY,DEREK, PATRICK DEMPSEY, but still i want her to stay on the show . I vote 4 addisex (addison + alex) i think shell cheat on mcsteamy with alex. like she hasnt done it before , you saw what she did to derek.
April 4th, 2007 5:22 PM
First of all, I think that Grey's is losing its touch. Second season was awesome and third is stuggling to match. Kate Walsh is an awesome actress and I love her, but I fear for her career in GA. Frankly I fear for GA. If the show flops...will it be the end of GA as we know. Will it slowly crumbling like the Russian Empire, once great, then taken over by the own citizens? What is GA falls because of the viewers? Personally, GA need a boost, I'm just not sure how, but I know Private Practice can't be the solution. Anyway, when the show Private Practice, they better show it on a different night at 9:00 ( I can't stay up to 10:00 to watch T.V ) Anyway, Kate Walsh is hot and amazing!!!
April 5th, 2007 7:54 PM
I am really tired of not seeing the show Grey's Anatomy continue on a regular basis. They just don't seem to care if we continue to watch current programs. Just drop the plot like a hot potato and put on what they please without any warning. Discusting! ABC needs to wise up.
April 17th, 2007 3:57 PM
It's good for Kate, and even better for the character of Addison, so good luck to both of them on the new spin-off!
April 21st, 2007 10:32 PM
im excited for the show because that means that addison and alex have to hook up first. I've been waiting for that for like EVER. I wonder what mark does because it says that he "fails" at his 60 no sex thingy. Hmmm... i wonder who it is that makes him "fail"???
April 24th, 2007 4:35 PM
From what I understand it's in Walsh's contract that if the spinoff fails, she goes back to GA. Wouldn't YOU make that a condition of the deal? The woman's busted her butt for years in Hollywood. Give her a break and support the spinoff. Plus, she'll FINALLY get all the screen time she deserves. Not the blink-and-you'll-miss-em entrances and exits she's been given in many of the last GA episodes. If you're inspired by/admire strong, independent, accomplished women, then
WATCH the spinoff/support the show. If yu just like Addison, WATCH the spinoff/support the show.
April 26th, 2007 12:57 PM
Devo, you're so right!!! Kate Walsh worked her butt off all her life. At 14, she was working in a Burger King. She typed up reports for her stepfather to make money. All this woman knows is to work and work. I feel sorry for her. She worked as a waiteress in Manhatten, she worked everywhere!!! She deserves this. I'll watch totally watch it. I was going to watch it anyway. I LOVE HER!!! She deserves more than 2 seconds. Sometimes, I think she's not even in the episode! Yet, she's an awesome actress that should be in award winning movies!!
April 29th, 2007 3:42 PM
I heart Kate Wlash and especially Addi i want her deaaaaaaaaaadddddddd
May 4th, 2007 8:22 AM
I love the new show and I like Kate's personality better in it!
May 4th, 2007 9:53 AM
I loved the show last night!! I was thinking to myself that it would make a kick ass spin off!! Guess I was the last to know lol. I am a HUGE fan of Taye Diggs and his wife Idina Menzel and I hope that this show does aire because I want him to bounce back onto the screen. I love Kate Walsh and I think the move would be good for Addison but if she did move, I doubt that Grey's Anatomy would be completely out of the picture.
May 4th, 2007 4:30 PM
The Other Side of This Life was the 2nd time I watched Greys Anatomy. I am now a fan. I loved the characters in California so much. I was hoping it would spin off. Please spin.
May 5th, 2007 1:30 AM
LOVE THE SPIN-OFF!!
Please keep it!!
Don't get me wrong, I still love watching Grey's Anatomy and I will continue to watch it but I really felt that Kate Walsh wasn't getting enough screen time and Addison is such a cool character, so it makes me excited that there will be a show dedicated to her.
Keep it coming!
May 5th, 2007 1:41 AM
all those that think Kate should go back to GA:
I just read an interview with Kate Walsh and she said that she is so happy to be working with a new ensemble and is excited for the spin off. She said that she doesn't know what will happen if Private Practice doesn't continue, and that she might now go back to GA.
Do you really want to risk that? I mean, come on! Addison is just a character. She's barely been on GA and even so she wasn't happy. Its not like Kate Walsh is going to play a different character in Private Practice, she's STILL Addison.
Kate is happy. Addison is happy. With the new show there is a wide range of possible storylines and the cast is awesome. Why would you jeprodize that?
What if Kate decided not to go back to GA? Then you would totally lose Addison.
I think that they should keep the new show. I hope that the ratings go up because I thoroughly enjoyed last thursday's episode.
P.S- I am a big GA fan, don't get me wrong.
Can't you be both a GA fan and a Private Practice fan?
May 6th, 2007 2:41 PM
I have to admit I thought the spin-off was a horrible idea ... buuuut..
I absolutely LOVED the two hour episode introducing Private Practice.
It was so good ! I cant believe people are against this. Two is always better than one! Kate Walsh is still Addison, that means Private Practice will still inter-mingle with GA every now and then. I'm so excited. More story lines, and now it's almost like a double dose of Grey's Anatomy a week!
How could you not love this?