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!
July 5th, 2007 1:02 AM
I just read my friend's comment on here and I didn't think she was going to be that rude.
So to Calliope, first off I am not rude. And to mcdreamylove1, why would I say something that stupid?!?(So much crap is flying around about who said what and what happened that I've chosen to stop commenting on this story because I don't know what to believe anymore). So for the recorder I had my friends over at the time of the interview and when I clicked on her to read what others thought my friend wanted to make a comment because she was pissed so I told her that she could use my email address and my user name because it automically pops up on my computer and she wouldn't have to sign up just to make one comment.
I have actually said in the past on other message boards really nice things about Patrick and T.R so why would I all of a sudden decided to say something as dumb as that?
I personally am sick and tried of hearing about this and to be this is an unfortunate thing. Almost everyone's name was dragged through the mudd.
July 5th, 2007 5:07 AM
How is he blaming anyone. He's tell what happened, and exactly what happened. TR told his side and he didn't have a side to tell because he wasn't even there, yet people had no problem believing him, and he only did it for personal reasons and personal gain. The only reason people are disagreeing with this is becasue PD is more involved them people want to believe or wanted to know. The bottom line is that this all started with PD, and that's what people don't want to believe. This is the reason why ABC allowed TR and KH to freely speak even though they put a gag order on IW - - to protect PD from the bad press, their leading man. All ABC has to do is say IW's story isn't true, but all they can do is stoop to name calling -- "McBlamey). How immature and stupid is that. ABC is as ruthless as they come. I can understand younger people not understanding what's going on, but older people know his story makes more sense than anything we've heard since this happened. People kept saying they wanted to know what happend, now we know they really didn''t mean it.
July 5th, 2007 5:09 AM
I just read a few post, and it's obvious that once again, some people are commenting that haven't even seen the interview.
July 5th, 2007 6:42 AM
Maybe the reason Patrick Dempsey isn't commenting is that he is concentrating on the much more important issue of taking care of his newborn sons, along with the rest of his family while making a movie at the same time. According to the TWoP forums, he did make a very dignified comment to the press and then indicated he wanted to move on. Seems that he's acting like a true adult here.
July 5th, 2007 8:25 AM
Well of course he wants to move on, we now know the extent of his involvement. People have been saying move on since the whole thing started, but yet no one was listening then. Now that IW has been let go and he wants to finally tell what really happened, now everyone (the ones who have gotten what they want), are ready to move on. If everyone was acting like adults, then this would have been over when IW and PD made up in Oct.
And ABC could put this to rest simply by commenting and saying his story isn't true. Even Larry King tried to reach several people about IW's story, and they wouldn't comment. I think Larry King believes what IW is saying.
July 5th, 2007 11:55 AM
I think it is too bad to lose such a great character of the show. I think everything went very badly for Isaiah, and he is sorry. He is too good of a character on the show to lose him. He is by far my favorite on the show. I am not sure I will watch, once they write him off. We all lose from this.
July 5th, 2007 5:03 PM
Get a grip and jh just said what's been on my mind all this time.
I am afraid, however, I am still not ready to move on! I will miss Burke, in fact I already do and I just want Isaiah Washington back on the show. It is just sad that the papers and their readers (I for my part wish I had never read or heard about the entire thing! things probably/certainly would have been different if this never leaked to the press or people wouldn't have paid attention.) couldn't focus on Isaiah's and everyone else's acting skills. That's what their job is or at least should be about. This cast has done such a wonderful job in shooting this show and this is what everyone is talking about after 3 seasons. It's just incredibly sad. It shouldn't have come this far.
As for Shonda, she made me fall in love with these characters, so she will have to do hell of a job to console me. I am just so sad about this. Seriously, I am so sick of the crashing and burning!!!
July 5th, 2007 7:42 PM
Maybe my question was overshadowed by anger and dispute, but I am still wondering if there's a place on the internet where I can view the interview??????????
July 6th, 2007 9:08 PM
McYummyMyTummy you should look on youtube and type in "Larry King" or "Isaiah Washington" and you should be able to find it.
Hope that helps.
July 7th, 2007 1:19 AM
He's bringing EP into this now too, good lord man shut up!
July 7th, 2007 4:43 AM
what's ep stand for?
July 7th, 2007 5:57 AM
Hiya Vicky, EP stands for Ellen Pompeo.
July 7th, 2007 9:12 AM
He's telling what happened, and as E! reported he didn't say she was late, only that PD wanted to wait for her, that didn't been she was late. Is was about PD constant tardiness.
July 7th, 2007 12:51 PM
First, people are saying over and over that his story doesn't match what was said in other interviews, but it does in fact match what KH said on the Ellen show (before TR went there), so I do believe this story.
Second, I don't think that using "the word" when not directed at anyone or just to deny having used it is bad... It's an hypocrisy to say "ohh, the F word" when everyone knows what the means, it's implied, and it's socially acceptable.
But he apologized. He did the damn meetings, he blamed himself and only mentioned others to explain the reasons he might have snapped off. I know gay people that weren't either insulted or in any way affected with what was said... Everyone said that the media blew this thing out of proportion. And even Larry King, who usually won't let people get away with anything, believed him.
It's obvious he won't come back to the show, and I think it is a pity. It was a great character. But for some reason lead actors are rarely black in big series, so being a "liberal story" where everyone's life is given the same degree of attention, it must have made too many people angry.
July 8th, 2007 5:35 AM
I will miss Burke and I think Isaiah Washington is a fine actor- however, I think people have to understand that his interview was obviously self-serving. I bet if he hadn't done what he did at the Golden Globes (grabbing the mike from Shonda and using the word "faggot" in front of a room full of reporters) he probably would still have a job, IN SPITE of the dust-up with PD and using the word in whatever the original context was. ABC was playing it cool, TR Knight was playing it cool (he didn't talk about the incident until AFTER the Golden Globes.) The person who started it up again was IW.
I'm sad to see Burke go, I'm sure Shonda and ABC are sad to see the character go but I understand why they did it.
July 8th, 2007 8:10 PM
Thanks whateverbub!
July 9th, 2007 12:26 AM
i want him back...in season 4..there's no grey's anatomy eithout Isaiah Washington
July 9th, 2007 12:27 AM
i want him back...in season 4..there's no grey's anatomy without Isaiah Washington
July 10th, 2007 1:02 PM
If ABC let IW because of the GG incident, then their more superficial then we ever thought. An award is more important than an human being. Now that's just sad and it says a lot about our country.
July 10th, 2007 4:23 PM
To respond to MJ- have you seen the GG footage? I watched it the night after the Golden Globes because I was hoping to see Shonda give her acceptance speech. I was so happy for my show. The cast was together and unified and glowing. And then Isaiah grabbed the mike from Shonda when she was trying to do him a favor by NOT talking about the incident. And you just saw everyone's face fall. All of a sudden all of their hard work which a minute before was being celebrated was dashed to the ground.
He's a very talented actor - he will be missed on the show. But obviously, he's hard to work with- everything HE'S said leads me to think this. (I've worked with actors for years so I know what it's like to work with someone who feels the need to point out another actor's lateness. It's a very specific kind of actor who does that and those actors are no fun.)
I will miss Preston Burke too. But IW will get more work and the show will go on. (and perhaps be a more enjoyable working experience for the cast still on the show.)
July 16th, 2007 11:20 AM
I have been an absent fan of Isaiah and have let others like MJ, Sabrina, and Iceman carry the load here so I wanted to add to their comments by saying some posters are losing sight of what is really at the heart of this. Isaiah lost his job, not because he used an inappropriate word in a behind the scenes dispute with Patrick Dempsey in reference to himself, but because TR Knight misrepresented what happened and the media jumped on this crusade of bad, bad homophobic Isaiah, poor victimized TR. This was false. As I have said repeatedly it made no sense. Isaiah has no history of problems with the gay community in twenty years in the entertainment business. Even the rumored dust up on the set of Soul Food was denied by Nicole Ari Parker, the actress supposedly involved who has said on her website that it never happened. I don't understand how the media can get away with this. I don't understand how TR Knight can get away with this.
Isaiah apologized originally about the fight with Patrick Dempsey. He and Dempsey cleared the air immediately and went back to work. That wasn't this issue. It was the Knight outing and subsequent passing blame on Isaiah that grabbed media attention. The fact that not one person from ABC is disputing Isaiah's side of the story is even more proof that this is exactly what happened. In addition, his side of the story matches that said by Dempsey and Pickens and even Jeffrey Dean Morgan in several interviews. Even Heigl said the original dust up was nothing and everyone went back to work. She was angry about the F word uttered after the Golden Globes and that it might have offended Knight.
In terms of the Golden Globes, backstage in the press room Ted Casablanca would not stop asking about the on set incident. He asked repeatedly until Isaiah felt he would make it stop by saying he hadn't used the word. That is what he then later regretted that he had said the word on television in front of millions even if it was not directed at Knight or anyone else. As he explained in the interview he was sorry that this took away from their win and the enjoyment of that recognition. He took responsibility for that and did the rehab, and the apology, and the PSA. Everything that Isaiah has done has been consistent from the beginning.
If Knight is allowed to remain on the show with a pumped up story line because of this premeditated trashing of his cast mate that ultimately put him through hell and caused him to lose his job, he should be fired and never hired again in the entertainment business. Isaiah has a right to clear his name from lies and self serving inuendo on the part of Knight. As long as Knight remains on ABC I will not support that network. Isaiah should be rehired with a huge apology from all involved.
It is amazing to me that anyone should think he should just accept the misrepresentations and go away. I think he has a lawsuit against Knight for liable and extreme emotional distress that was completely undeserved and I wish he would pursue it. Who should he blame for what has happened to him if not the person who is responsible? Get rid of Knight and the entire cast would be better off. Who will he go after next? It sounds like he originally targeted Patrick Dempsey. I guess it was easier to get the black man fired. I know no one wants to hear that, but the evidence supports it.
July 18th, 2007 9:58 PM
If anyone of you people had seen and rightfully comprehended the LK interview, then, your negative opinions and take on IW's version of the story would have changed. (for one) Isiah didn't start blaming anyone, he respectively explained to LK what happened, and then proceeded to explain the possible ways that the situation could of been avoided. (for two) He was sincere, and honest, calm and relax; and for what it's worth, I don't think Grey's Anatomy would ever be the same. People would just be watching the usual clichéd things happening in the hospital, and the unique and unusually bright mind of Dr.Burke would be missing. GA will become like all the other medical shows out there. When Isiah Washington becomes an Oscar winning actor, ABC will be sorry ---that's my take on the situation.
Good Interview Isiah.
July 18th, 2007 9:59 PM
If anyone of you people had seen and rightfully comprehended the LK interview, then, your negative opinions and take on IW's version of the story would have changed. (for one) Isiah didn't start blaming anyone, he respectively explained to LK what happened, and then proceeded to explain the possible ways that the situation could of been avoided. (for two) He was sincere, and honest, calm and relax; and for what it's worth, I don't think Grey's Anatomy would ever be the same. People would just be watching the usual clichéd things happening in the hospital, and the unique and unusually bright mind of Dr.Burke would be missing. GA will become like all the other medical shows out there. When Isiah Washington becomes an Oscar winning actor, ABC will be sorry ---that's my take on the situation.
Good Interview Isiah.
November 11th, 2007 5:04 PM
isaiah was mad,used words, didnt direct them to anyone,even if they matched a certain person,defended himself publicly by saying the word again, and the world turns upside down.whats this word? FAGGOT!! The human race is being deprived and cheapened. t.r knight is a faggot, i am saying it directly to him. one more he is a pathetic piece of filth.
May 17th, 2008 7:40 PM
bayfront : your comment is way true.
1. Sad day when people let irresponsible non-neutral mediapersons, with no business being so critical, one-sided and reporting falsehoods, make up their minds for them. They actually destroy lives, shame on them. Media was rotten to IW. They will pay for Bad Karma.
2. If TRK caused the loss of job and ruin of another actor he truly deserves to never work again, and will pay for it someday. I agree with whoever said he is a wrong person to represent or set any example for the gay community. He came across as vindictive, unforgiving, selfserving, backstabbing, petty and mean. He depicts gays wrongly. He incited enough drama to draw sympathy and allow gays to persecute IW ?? His approach with IW was at best unbalanced. Never did he show the good grace to accept the apology publicly, why ??? If you so 'denounce publicly' then jolly well have the decency to 'accept an apology publicly' as well. He gloated at the humiliation of a coworker. It's just not done, and yet he's seen as the 'victim'. What is this.. some alternative nation .. wow
3. Also, it is easy for PD and TRK not to comment since they lost nothing + were gagged by ABC. However, TRK seems to have special privilieges, when he sang on ED's show. They all got over it coz they lost nothing, elementary ! Why would IW ever get over it ? Would any of them that said he should get over it, get over the loss of a job, millon-dollar contracts on top rated shows ?
4. Disney now supports gays due to business reasons at Disneyworld. This may have been why they found it easier to fire the black guy
than anger the gays by firing the real troublemaker, TRK. Bottomline: ABC is ruthless, coz Disney is partial = bad luck for IW.
5. Words like conspiracy and gaymafia seem possible when> how come you see so many white actors got back their jobs after saying a lot worse ? Maybe someone paid off the media to destroy IW, else why did media systematically hound him ? The unending hatred and attacks by gays who have never been this riled up on next to a non-issue?, so was it more racist than about the word used offhand? There was also a whole lot of gays who were barely offended by the episode, so why the crazy witchhunt ?
Who knows which of the above harmed IW most? He did do himself some harm but not enough to merit loss of his contract, esp. not when he trusted ABC. One hopes justice is served, sooner than later.Compensation to IW is a whole different ballgame.