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Kevin McKidd May Star in "Rome" Film

steve@iscribelimited.com (iheartizzie) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:35:43 EST

It looks like Grey's Anatomy's Major Doctor Hottie (Kevin McKidd) may have a reason to take a break from Cristina (Sandra Oh) and Seattle Grace, E! Online reports:

A Rome film! Yup, the show's newest star is a hot commodity these days.

His character, Lucius Vorenus, might be back in the saddle for Rome if plans for a movie version go forward, which is looking likely, according to numerous reports.

Introduced in Season Five, Kevin McKidd has been a huge hit on Grey's Anatomy so far, so with any luck, a Rome flick could be worked around his Grey's schedule.

What is Wrong with Izzie Stevens?

steve@iscribelimited.com (iheartizzie) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:53:50 EST

We're all wondering it, and E! Online has put together a list of theories and possible (using the term loosely, of course) explanations for Season Five's most intriguing plot line: Izzie's "visions" (and more) of Denny Duquette, her fiance who bought the farm in Season Two.

Which do you think is best? Do you have your own? Comment below ...

Theory #1: Izzie Has a Brain Tumor

Evidence: Symptoms of a brain tumor include: inability to concentrate (check), gradual changes in intellectual or emotional capacity (check), lethargy (check), changes in behavior or personality (check), and/or hallucinations (check).

Verdict: Debunked... or so we think. Shonda Rhimes told TV Guide's Michael Ausiello, "I think the love triangle with Denny, Izzie and Alex is among the most interesting we've ever done. Watching the chemistry between Jeffrey and Katherine again has been really touching. I can't wait for our viewers to see where we're taking it. But what it won't involve is Izzie having a brain tumor." Okay ... unless Shonda is just trying to throw us all off.

Theory #2: Izzie Is Losing Her Mind

Evidence: She is having hallucinations of her dead fiancé. Active, ongoing hallucinations where they have tons of sweaty sex and he incessantly follows her around. If it looks crazy, sounds crazy and smells crazy, it probably is crazy. Even the Seattle Grace nurses have blogged that she's out of her right mind: "Izzie Stevens has lost it. I mean it. She's gone... I hope things get better for her because it looks like Izzie can't take one more bad thing happening ..." Could the nurses know more than we think they know?

Verdict: Izzie could very well be on the verge of a nervous breakdown, which could definitely have implications for her relationship with Alex. His mom was nuts, and Ava (Elizabeth Reaser) had a devastating breakdown of her own last year - a situation, it's worth noting, that Izzie helped Alex endure.

All this does beg the question, though: Why is Alex so crazy-making? Is he just too hot? Does his pure sexual energy fry the brain?

Theory #3: Izzie Is Dead, Too

Evidence: We all saw The Sixth Sense. Everything is going right for Izzie, other than seeing her dead ex-fiancé. She has roommates who love her, boy toy Alex (Justin Chambers), who finally wants to be with her, and a job she loves, despite the fact she stole a heart... Is it possible that it's all just a happy limbo where Izzie has dwelt since she killed herself after Denny's first demise?

Verdict: As far as the rest of the characters are concerned, Izzie is alive and well, but who knows? And Mer has communed with dead Denny, dead Dylan and dead mom Ellis.

Theory #4: Izzie Has Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Evidence: The girl is way too busy fighting for surgeries to even take a moment to deal with the loss of her fiancé. This has happened once before, when Izzie was too active being an underwear model to face the emotional reality of putting her daughter up for adoption.

Verdict: Izzie's own best theory on what's happening to her is a delayed grief experience, and who's to say the doctor can't diagnose herself...

Theory #5: Izzie Has an Overactive Imagination

Evidence: Plain and simple, sex with a dead man is not possible, even if it is... fulfilling. Co-executive producer Joan Rater said on the Grey's Anatomy Writers' Blog: "Izzie knows this isn't real, she knows that, but it feels real and she just ... closes her eyes and, you heard the sounds coming from the room, as Meredith said, it sounded kinda porny, so whatever's going on with the dead guy, the sex is good, at least ..."

Verdict: If this is the love story the writers were hinting at for Katherine Heigl ... she's essentially having a love story with herself, and that's not healthy.

Grey's Anatomy Caption Contest CXXXIV

steve@iscribelimited.com (iheartizzie) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:56:09 EST

Welcome to the 134th edition of the Grey's Anatomy Insider Caption Contest!

To see who won last week, and to read the full list of entries sent in, click here.

Then get ready for the all-new Caption Contest below! All you do is think of your best caption(s) for this Grey's Anatomy photo, click "comments" and post away!

"Dream a Little Dream of Me" Recap, Quotes, Photos, Etc.

steve@iscribelimited.com (iheartizzie) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:55:11 EST

Dream sequences, fake-outs (that crazy Rose), fresh faces (Dr. Hunt!), old issues and turning over a new leaf. The Season Five premiere of Grey's Anatomy, "Dream a Little Dream of Me," which aired last night in a special Thanksgiving encore, certainly had it all.

If you missed it or wish to relive the drama, our episode guide has the full rundown. There's also our photo gallery, video section, guide to the episode's music and list of quotes.

Our Grey's Anatomy forum is always open and welcoming of your comments, as well. Thank you, as always, for visiting our site and we look forward to a new episode next week!

Happy Thanksgiving From Grey's Anatomy Insider

steve@iscribelimited.com (iheartizzie) — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:27:06 EST

Just in case you happen to check Grey's Anatomy Insider on this holiday, we posted a Patrick Dempsey picture. Today is all about things we're thankful for, right?

Here's the Grey's Anatomy star running errands in L.A. last week ...

As always, WE are thankful for you, our readers. We appreciate all of your visits and comments, helping make this the #1 online Grey's Anatomy community!

ABC Conducting Audience Testing on Izzie-Denny Story

steve@iscribelimited.com (iheartizzie) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:39:35 EST

Perhaps Katherine Heigl’s recent, pre-Emmy Awards quasi-complaint about not getting enough nomination-worthy material on Grey’s Anatomy wasn’t entirely off base.

Her character, Dr. Izzie Stevens, is sleeping with her dead lover, Denny (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), as we all know. The question is ... how does that even happen?

We'll have to wait and see, but according to Entertainment Weekly, ABC has already begun the process of "audience-testing" a love story between Izzie and Denny.

Last we checked, Shonda Rhimes wasn’t trying to create a Ghost Whisperer: Seattle, but then there isn’t a lot about Grey’s Anatomy that makes sense these days.

Actress Brooke Smith, whose Dr. Erica Hahn represented the only full-time lesbian character on the "Big Four" networks, was abruptly canned last month.

Mary McDonnell is an acclaimed and talented actress, but some have called her depiction of a renowned cardiac surgeon with Asperger’s ridiculous and unrealistic.

Add in Rhimes’ decision to have Izzie cavort with the dead, and Grey’s Anatomy has fast become this season’s most maligned show by fans (if you don’t count Heroes, that is).

It was theorized by many that Izzie's visions of Denny were related to her rumored brain tumor ... until Rhimes said last week that Izzie doesn’t have a brain tumor.

Sadly, that’s all the explanation we're going to get for now (Shonda Rhimes, Katherine Heigl, and ABC all declined to comment on the matter for this article).

However, with Grey's Anatomy iewership down 17 percent from last year, an insider says ABC is conducting audience testing on the Izzie-Denny love story.

Results aren’t in yet, so we’re forced to sift through future plot lines for any signs of relief. One can only wonder how the test audiences are reacting to it.

The good news is that Rhimes hasn’t given up on girl-on-girl action Bisexual Callie is about to start canoodling with new intern Sadie (Melissa George).

Elsewhere, Mark Sloan (a.k.a. Eric Dane, a.k.a. McSteamy) may end up doing the dirty with little Grey, Lexie (Chyler Leigh), and fan favorite Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) will show up for a special set of crossover episodes with her spin-off, Private Practice, in February.

The bad news is that Jeffrey Dean Morgan is slated to appear on Grey's Anatomy at least through February. There’s never an exorcist around when you need one.

Grey's Anatomy Spoilers: More Denny, George, Mark & Lexie

steve@iscribelimited.com (iheartizzie) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:29:14 EST

Michael Ausiello of EW has a lot of good stuff on Grey's Anatomy in his weekly spoiler Q&A today. He covers everything from the absence of George to the portrayal of Dr. Dixon, to Mark Sloan and "Little Grey" and more on Hahn's dismissal. Here goes ...

Q: Tell me more about this Grey's Anatomy-Private Practice crossover. I'm intrigued.

A: It'll take place over the course of three episodes (February 5, 12, and 19) and the only confirmed participant as of now is Kate Walsh.

Q: I didn't think Shonda Rhimes could ever come up with anything worse than Gizzie on Grey's Anatomy, but this ghost Denny business is about one episode away from officially being the worst thing the show has ever done. Please tell me it will be over soon!

A: Afraid not. Denny will be haunting Izzie at least through February. In possibly related news, the title of episode 14 is "Beat Your Heart Out." Hmmm....

Q: Is Mary McDonnell going to be back on Grey's Anatomy? I loved her Dr. Dixon. I watched last week's episode thinking she'd be back, but she wasn't.

A: Her second of three episodes, "All By Myself," airs December 4. Personally, I wasn't a fan. You know I worship the ground McDonnell walks on, but I found her Asperger's depiction a tad over the top. And I'm not alone. Megan, a self-proclaimed Aushole and Asperger's sufferer, called the portrayal "robotic and single focused - which we are but not to that degree. Grey's Anatomy missed the boat on this one. Instead of normal with slight social misperceptions, it came off as a bad version of a high-functioning autistic, and they're two different things."

Q: Enough with Izzie-Denny and Cristina-Owen. I'm surprised that no one has asked about another "situation" that I've noticed on Grey's Anatomy since the season began: The slow and steady flirtation between Mark and Lexie. Where are they going with this?

A: To first base in early '09, and I can't wait. McSteamy is actually making Lexie (gulp) interesting.

Q: Why has T.R. Knight had only a few scenes per episode on Grey's Anatomy recently?

A: I did some digging and, unfortunately, there's nothing juicy to report. I'm told it's just part of the natural ebb and flow of storylines. He'll start flowing again next year when he gets mixed up in the Alex-Izzie-Denny story, but not in any romantic sort of capacity. Shonda may be kooky but she's not a masochist.

Q: How come ABC has issues with lesbians on Grey's Anatomy, but no problem with all the guy-on-guy make-out sessions on Brothers & Sisters?

A: I honestly don't think the suits at ABC are scared of gay men or lesbians. They just despised the character of Erica Hahn and her romance with Callie Torres. And as soon as they had proof that the audience agreed, they dumped Brooke Smith. As an ABC insider explained, "In the process of doing some maintenance polling, the sample group for Grey's Anatomy hated the Callie/Erica coupling while still liking Callie."

Katherine Heigl Shops with T.R. Knight

steve@iscribelimited.com (iheartizzie) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:20:03 EST

By request, here's a picture of Grey's Anatomy stars T.R. Knight and Katherine Heigl (George and Izzie) out shopping together last week. Thanks for the link!

So cool that they're friends off the set (as are Katie and Justin Chambers). Now if we could only get some more George-Izzie scenes on Thursday evenings ...

Do You Miss the George-Izzie Friendship?

steve@iscribelimited.com (iheartizzie) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:15:07 EST

Gizzie fizzled out romantically, but it's the friendship George and Izzie that has many Grey's Anatomy fans up in arms. Specifically, they're wondering where it went.

These two BFFs used to be inseparable, but we haven't seen much of them on screen lately (although hopefully "All By Myself" will reverse that trend somewhat).

Tell us how you feel about the diminishing (or at least absent) friendship between the two in our informal survey below. This online poll is unscientific, and just for fun, but still, it does provide us at least a ballpark idea of where Grey's Anatomy fan opinion lies ...

Do you miss the George-Izzie friendship?

"All By Myself" Sneak Previews

steve@iscribelimited.com (iheartizzie) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:48:23 EST

First, a brief programming note: This Thursday, November 27, ABC will be airing "Dream a Little Dream of Me" from 9-11 p.m. This was the Season Five premiere.

Next week, the show will return with a new episode, "All By Myself."

When we learn anything about the show's upcoming TV schedule, we post it in the box on our site's right-hand sidebar. We try to update this as much as possible!

On to the sneak peeks of "All By Myself." In case you were worried that Denny went away ... he's didn't. In fact, he's following Izzie wherever she goes! Watch for him in the clip below, in which Richard explains who's getting the big solo surgery and why ...

All By Myself: Sneak Preview #1

Follow the jump for a second clip of Alex kissing Izzie, much to Denny's chagrin. We also posted the preview of the episode that aired after last Thursday's show ...

All By Myself: Sneak Preview #2

All By Myself Promo

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