Grey's Anatomy On TV: Schedule
"Lay Your Hands On Me"
Thursday, August 14, 9 p.m. (repeat, episode 4.11)
"Untitled"
Thursday, September 25, 9 p.m. (NEW, 5.1)
Season 5 of Grey's Anatomy finally begins!
"Lay Your Hands On Me"
Thursday, August 14, 9 p.m. (repeat, episode 4.11)
"Untitled"
Thursday, September 25, 9 p.m. (NEW, 5.1)
Season 5 of Grey's Anatomy finally begins!
June 8th, 2007 2:30 PM
p.s. i really hope that burke gone doesnt mean marlow is back cuz i dont like that english creeper. and p.s.s. everyones comments are invovling the deal with T.R. but apparently thats not the only reason he was let go.
p.s.s.s. who would you guys like to see be the new attending in burke's place?
June 8th, 2007 2:37 PM
ok so p.s.s.s.s. even though id like to see a hot actor..as hot as tim daly from private practice...be the new attending...it would be easy to fit dr. erica hahn into the plot...BUT she would conflict with bailey cuz they kinda have the same bossy personalities
...so in real life im glad IW was fired cuz he an ass**** but for the show im sad about no more burktina
June 8th, 2007 2:43 PM
Hi everyone :/
I´m a huge Grey´s Anatomy fan :) ... and I´m from Germany ... I can tell you that this show is as huge in Germany as in America :) ... which is definately a good thing especially for all the fans overseas ....
but ... the whole thing with Isiah is depressing and shocking for us too ... I have no idea what Isiah thought when he acted totaly crazy :( ... I´m so disappointed I hardly have no words which can describe what I´m feeling and thinking :( ...
anyway I really hope that the GA cast will forgive him even without Isiah coming back to the show ... I hope that he has learned his lesson and continous to bahve better in the future ... whoever he is working with :/ ...
and just for the record :) ... I hope that Shonda will do anything wich is possible to keep the show and most of all the charachters as exciting, lovely and various as as in the first and second season :) .. the third one is a good one but there still is room for more ...
kisses your German friend :)
June 8th, 2007 2:48 PM
I think its bullshit that IW will not be returning. Please do not get me wrong I love T.R and I think that IW said was horrible, but i mean each character makes greys anatomy what is it. I don't think they show is going to be the same without him. dumb move
June 8th, 2007 2:55 PM
I am a Grey's Anatomy die hard fan, however, the last two eposides were a total disappointment!!!! I'm already expecting the same for the next season. If IW is being fired for just calling someone a name, please let me in on who does not make a mistake. Burke, Cristina and the Nazi make the show! Addison should stay on Grey's Anatomy because the spin-off was lame. Meredith and McDreamy's romance resembles something out of high school. I hate to say it but I think season 4 will be yhe end of GA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 8th, 2007 3:53 PM
People are looking at it from one of two perspectives: from the Preston Burke side, and from the Isaiah Washington side. Yeah, it's going to be weird to not see Burke roaming the halls, that cool element gone. But it's the Isaiah Washington side that should be getting more attention; yes, he called T.R. a faggot. It was wrong - even though there are plenty of people being called niggas and niggers; it's rampant as well, but it doesn't get a deal of attention because Blacks aren't the media martyrs that the GLBT community are right now. Example: Imus derides the Rutgers basketball team, as "nappy headed hos". Yeah, people initially were in shock, but it quickly wore off after he "apologized " while they were on Oprah. But IW calls him a faggot and the world is in an uproar. Yes, he said it twice. But afterwards, there was genuine remorse. If there wasn't, he wouldn't have went through all that trouble of doing PSAs and the like; but people still want to keep the spotlight on that like it is what we should be concerned with consistently.
Point blank, they should have kept him on the show. Watch them replace him with some docile character/actor.
June 8th, 2007 3:55 PM
Not really suprised in IW leaving Grey's.
I really liked his Burke character, I will miss him. But, we really don't know him as Isiah Washington, do we? We know him as who we see every week on TV. Of course we are mourning Burke, not Isiah, right? I wish IW all the luck in the world with his career, but I want Burke back!! Grey's will not be the same. They will have a hard time replacing him as he was one of the original characters. What do you think??
June 8th, 2007 4:48 PM
Really, really upset.
June 8th, 2007 5:09 PM
Burke's character is the reason so many people watched the show. Besides the fact that he had the best relationship on the whole show, he had the best personality. He was calm, cool, & collected. He also was good looking & just an all-around great actor. Why would ABC fire him when so many people watch the show for him & Cristina's relationship. I don't understand...
June 8th, 2007 5:16 PM
if preston burke isn't returning, i honestly have no reason to watch the show. he was the reason i paid attention. and, on another note, there aren't too many television shows that show a strong black male in that position (more especially in a position i see myself being in some time in the future. the chief is great, but burke was the best)...and with burke leaving, i am back to the drawing board. bottom line: without burke, there is no reason for me to watch the show...
June 8th, 2007 5:19 PM
Notice how nobody cares that T.R Knight is coming back...they're all too busy talking about how outrageous it is that Isaiah Washington won't be back.
I agree! George's part was ehhh, okay. But Burke...Burke was an amazing character. I definetely will miss him. He was my favorite! I'm not sure about S4 yet. I might watch just to see Cristina's character. I love her character. We'll see.
June 8th, 2007 8:32 PM
I hope he sues the hell out of the them! I'm so over this show. I wish them nothing but the worst.
June 8th, 2007 8:43 PM
You people keeping saying that if PD were to say the n-word him would have immediately been fired. Will you please, please stop lying. We all know that PD would not have been fired. He would have been given as many changes as needed to make amends. I am so hoping that the main ones that were so judgemental will slip up, and we know that she will. And I know I speaking out of anger, but I'm not apologizing, I've learned that it doesn't help.
June 8th, 2007 9:02 PM
Reading the comments here is so sad, heartbreaking...our Burke is gone....
June 8th, 2007 9:07 PM
I'm a huge Grey's fan, possibly one of the biggest and I thought it was completely wrong, obviously, of Isaiah Washington to use a gay slur against T.R. Knight, but if someone's gotta go in addition to Kate Walsh (who by the way I think should stay), I'd rather it be Burke than Georgie. Seattle Grace will definately not be the same without Preston, but if George was to leave, there would be a meltdown. I think though Washington is a great actor and plays Burke better than anyone else could, T.R. deserves to stay more. He's Georgie! And using a gay slur against Knight was a complete mistake. Sorry, Isaiah, you're great on Grey's, but you make a big mistake, you pay for it.
June 8th, 2007 9:22 PM
Ssuzanne, both Isaiah and Patrick Dempsey said the whole choke rumor was not true. Both said they got in each other's faces, but that it was all words and over in minutes.
Amanda, if I had a nickle for every tiime that argument has been used since October I would be able to retire. If you are not Black, you have no idea how often the N word is used without any reprecussions at all. It is only a word. Either word. It does not define the person. I hope TR gets over his shame at being gay so that a word, any word, will not have such a negative impact on him that he will feel the compelling need to destroy another man's career over it.
Hafsa, Shonda may make it work for some of the fans without Isaiah, but I will not be among them. This is the worst case of over reacting and media hype in the history of Hollywood. This all smacks of interest groups that control public opinion and personally, I would like to make up my own mind rather than having it force fed to me. Ted Casablanca and Michael Ausiello are two online reporters (I believe both gay men) who have beat Isaiah to death with this for the past 8 months.
Kathryn, he was fired for the f word not the rumors of choking that both people involved claim were not true. It should have been handled on the set. TR Knight is the one who created the media circus over this and yet he was rehired. I don't believe I am an idiot, but I got interested in the show because Isaiah Washington was on it. I got hooked on it because of the Burke and Cristina storyline, and I have no interest in watching it without him. I will not be back in the fall.
Jaime, Isaiah didn't deny using the f word. He denied calling TR the f word and by TR's own admission, he over heard Isaiah referring to him by that word when he was arguing with Patrick Dempsey. He did not call TR the word. It was not a lie, it was misunderstood and misquoted by unscrupulous people in the media who wanted to change his meaning and crucify him for using the word in his denial. It is amazing how quick we are to believe the worst in people just because it makes good copy.
This says one thing to me. Hateful, unforgiving people who cannot accept a sincere apology and move on have won. That is sad. Even after the horrible ending to the wedding, I continued to have hope that Burke and Cristina would find their way back together in season three. Shonda made it clear that they both loved each other even though the wedding did not happen. I was not alone in that hope. Many, many fans of Burketina were wishing the same thing.
Now, all I can say is that I hope the loyal fans of Grey's Anatomy enjoy season three. I personally cannot stand the incestuousness that is Gizzie. To me their entire sexual relationship is creepy, although I enjoyed their friendship. Enjoy the continual up and down of the Mer/Der relationship. I like both of them but get tired of the ups and downs that don't give you a chance to breath in between. I hope they have some of the promised fun times in Season 3. Hopefully Alex will finally find a love interest, Sloan will figure out why his character is even on the show, and Bailey and Weber will be more than the token Blacks on Shonda's interracial cast.
I am disgusted with all of it. I have never been much of a television watcher, so the past two and 1/2 years have been an aberration as I was drawn into Sunday and then Thursday nights with the doctors of Seattle Grace. Life will get back to normal now. I am sad. I am disappointed. I will survive and I will continue to be a fan of the fantastic Isaiah Washington.
June 8th, 2007 9:36 PM
Amen, BB.
June 8th, 2007 9:41 PM
The entire cast was willing to move on after the first incident the only one who couldn't let it go was IW. When the reporter asked about the fight at the Golden Globes TR responed by saying "What fight?" IW however took over the mic and then repeated and lied about his offence. Some people can choose to live in their dream world if you want. But the truth is IW brought this on himself. Neither him or his fans have the right to blame anyone else for his mistakes. Many actors who has worked with him in the past has talked about his bad behavior. There is no way the gay slur was his first or last incident witht he Grey's cast.
I'll miss Burke's relationship with Cristina but other than that I say good riddance.
June 8th, 2007 9:57 PM
Sorry DixieGirl, i was just utterly shocked to read any post and went straight to writing a comment. But i read it now, and i guess if IW really is more of a 'liability' because of his 'history of disruptive behaviour' and that it would actually jeapordise GA's success, termination is the only solution. But i still think the puzzel is not complete with IW off the picture.
June 8th, 2007 10:07 PM
Yes we do, we have the right to blame ABC and Shonda Rhimes for leading us to believe that he would be back. They haven't made things better, things will get worst.
June 8th, 2007 10:12 PM
I am re-posting here one reader's comment (from the Seattle PI's "TV Gal" blog) because I think he sums up my thoughts so well:
>>Posted by steve.body at 6/8/07 2:04 p.m:
Maybe Isaiah Washington quoted Howard Beale because it most succinctly summed up what someone in his situation would have to feel after what he's been put through over his idiotic remark.
You're offended by it? So was I. BUT, the conventional wisdom is that we, the almighty public, are not after blood. We want people to admit their mistakes, learn from them, be publicly contrite, and set an example with their subsequent behavior. If that's actually the case - and we're all not just some glorified lynch mob - Isaiah Washington did EXACTLY what we all SAY we want a person like him to do: publicly and openly show contrition, attempt to make sincere amends, and not just try to weasel out of it, ala the entire Bush administration.
The consequences of his thoughtless remark should have been that he was put through the wringer, forced to grovel, and then be allowed, encouraged even, to keep doing that until everyone's agreed that he's changed his stripes and earned back our trust.
We seem to take the idea of stripping a person's entire livelhood, reputation, and self-esteem mighty lightly these days. What's the freakin' incentive for anyone to be introspective, remorseful, and publicly contrite - with all the stress and humiliation that entails - when the eventual outcome is going to be the same no matter what?
As with Don Imus, we demanded certain conditions under which we could tolerate the offender's presence in our public eye, got them, and then banished them anyway. And Washington did far more, with more sincerity, than Imus did.
Here's the net result, and you can get all huffy and dismiss this if you want to but it CAN and very well may come back to bite you in the fanny later on: We're voluntarily surrendering our freedom of speech. We're not making words illegal, exactly - Lord knows that's been tried and didn't work - but we're raising the verbal standard to such a shrilly restrictive level that anyone can transgress without even realizing that what they're doing is bad.
I was born and rasied in the mountains of Virginia and recently referred to myself in a newspaper column as a "hillbilly." It's a term I've used thousands of times on myself, knowing that it's both true and untrue, and have had fun with. An editor called me and told me that the paper couldn't print the word because it's on a list of words that constitute "hate speech."
Freedom of speech, as Aaron Sorkin so eloquently pointed out in "The American President," isn't easy. It's standing and listening to your opponent advocate, at the top of his lungs, that which you would spend a lifetime opposing. Speech is only truly free when we're free to speak.
Consequences for the thoughtless slur? Absolutely, and real enough to sting. But let's be honest with ourselves: Do we want contrition and a sincere apology and a person with a new appreciation of the power of words? Or do we just want disgrace and humiliation and an opportunity to wallow in our self-righteousness?
Can't have both.
Choose.
Or lose the freedom to even make the choice.
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Well said, Steve!
June 8th, 2007 10:57 PM
personally i'm glad he's gone. as a character, burke wasn't that exciting. his whole part on the show was with cristina and now thats over. i would like to see them meet again for closure cus he kinda just ran off. but o well.
as an actor, you shouldn't make mistakes as big as the ones he has. and twice! he doesn't even seem like he cares. he's too cocky and thinks he can say and do w/e he wants. well sorry but you can't.
and even if he stayed or left, i'd still watch the show. it doesn't matter. cus people saying they are true fans and then not watching it means you are not true fans. you need to give it a shot. you'll proably like it.
June 8th, 2007 11:32 PM
: I hope the TR Knight's return condition was not based on Shonda's decision to fire IW. This is called backmail! IW and Kate Walsh are both leaving the show after a terrible season. THey are good actors!! You're taking a big risk. The chemistry between the original team was great in S1&2. This wedding story that You invented between Burke &Christina in S3 was so silly. When I think Sara Ramirez who was supposed to go is staying and that you hire Chyler Leigh, I don't think the show will be what it was in S1&2 . Shonda, yeah! you burned it all down and S4 won't be build on new beginnings but on future departures!!!
E Pompeo, perhaps, & P Demsey , for sure, will quit the show.
June 8th, 2007 11:49 PM
Comments: Hmmm
Great post. I totally agree. Hats off to Steve.Body who so eloquently sums up my thoughts as well.
June 9th, 2007 1:51 AM
this is really ridiculous! IW is a great actor and there are alot of people who loves BANG. this is unfair. seriously.