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Great news over at Grey’s this week. Kim Raver is becoming a permanent member of the Grey’s Anatomycast and best of all, she may be replacing Katherine Heigl. ABC confirmed yesterday that Raver’s character, Dr. Teddy Altman, aka “Desert Storm Barbie”, has been made a series regular.
According to E!, “Katherine is definitely still under contract [with Grey's Anatomy] but it’s no secret she wants some time away from Grey’s to be with her baby and shoot movies, so bringing on Kim helps with that.”
As I explained yesterday, its upfront week. This morning, ABC and NBC announced their fall line-ups. Here’s a look at what’s staying and what’s going on ABC.
The alphabet network is cancelling four shows, Cupid, The Unusuals, Samantha Who? and According to Jim (finally) and are introducing ten new series next year. These new series are Cougar Town, a comedy about hot fortysomething women starring Courteney Cox, Eastwick, based the ’80s movie The Witches of Eastwick, stars Rebecca Romijn and Lindsay Price, Flash Forward is about what happens when every person get a preview of their life in six months, stars Joseph Fiennes and Sonya Walger, The Forgotten is about a bunch of freelance investigators who try to give faces, names and stories to unidentified victims, stars Reiko Aylesworth, Hank is Greenacresstarring Kelsey Grammer, Happy Town is like Men in Trees meets Harper’s Island, starring Geoff Stults, The Middle is a sitcom about a Midwestern family starring Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn, Modern Family is shot documentary style and follows three families, stars Ed O’Neill, V, is a remake of the 1980s miniseries about reptilian aliens who come to Earth to try to eat our flesh, starring Elizabeth Mitchell as an FBI agent trying to keep her son from becoming lunch and finally, Shark Tank is a new reality show about venture capitalists.
Here’s a look at the full schedule for ABC (after the jump):
Have you ever been watching a TV show and wondered, what is that song? Now ABC is making it easy for you to find out. The network has just launched the ABC Music Lounge which offers an inventory of songs and artists featured on its shows.
The web site offers streaming radio that plays over 200 artists who have been heard on ABC. Each artist also has their own page and a link to purchase their music online. In addition to …
The debate over the fate of Katherine Heigl’s character on Grey’s Anatomy rages on. Heigl, who is currently filming the upcoming thriller, Five Killers, with Ashton Kutcher in Nice, France, is now saying that she has no idea what will happen to her character, Izzie Stevens. At a studio party marking Grey’s 100th episode, Heigl said its too soon to speculate about the fate of Dr. Stevens.
“I was assuming that at one point and I got a lot of shrugged shoulders and shakes of the head, so I don’t know if that’s a yes or a no. No one will tell me and I don’t know how this is going to go,” Heigl said, noting series creator Shonda Rhimes’ passion for plot secrecy. “I don’t know if I live or die. I don’t know how Izzie fares,” said the actress, who’s played the character since the show debuted in 2005. “I’m there” if Izzie remains part of Grey’s Anatomy,” Heigl said.
Currently, Heigl’s character is battling a rare form of cancer that only has a 5% survival rate. In last week’s episode, Izzie survived a dangerous brain surgery but her fate still hangs in the balance fueling the rumors that Heig was leaving the show.
