Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder’s creator Shonda Rhimes was on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore and the Comedy Central host asked her, “Have you ever killed off a character because you didn’t like the actor?” Then for extra points, he asked her to name names. Once she stopped laughing, she said, “Yes! And I am not naming names.” Since she said names, I am assuming it is more that one. Once you kill off one character, I guess it gets easier. So I am assuming Katherine Heigl was the first and then it got easier to kill off the likes off Chris Lowell, Tim Daly, Eric Dane, Columbus Short and Patrick Dempsey. Not saying she didn’t like all of them, but maybe that explains why they were suddenly 86ed?
I personally can’t watch her shows anymore. I find her shows to be over the top depressing and sadistic. It’s like how can we destroy one character’s life one week, and then keep making it worse every week after that. Like having a character addicted to drugs, her boyfriend dies of an overdose, she finds out she’s pregnant, the baby has no brain and she carries the baby to term to donate the organs. That is just one example, but what about Meredith Gray, who in her family hasn’t died. Oh yeah, the kids. How long until one of them gets a terminal disease or gets hit by a car or drowns or something? And what more can she do to Mellie? That is why I am done with her shows.
And now it seems like the truest Diva is not the actors, but the person in charge. I think that says a lot because Chuck Lorre has worked with a lot worse than Rhimes and he only killed off one troubled actor and for good reason. Just saying.
What do you think of her admitting to killing off an actor she didn’t like?
Before Tim Daly was saving lives on Private Practice, he was helping solve murders on Hill Street Blues. How cute was the 25 year old in that 1981 episode?
Craig Ferguson and Tim Daly are going to guest star on Hot in Cleveland tonight and they have a very important question for Joy (Jane Leeves). Besides asking her to marry them, the two actors want to know whose rock is bigger! Although I am not sure which rock they are talking about because it seemed like they were talking more about their royal jewels as compared to royal jewel in their hands. Hopefully Joy will get that appraised for us on the season finale tonight at 10p on TV Land.
Tim Daly finally decided to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and he did it differently than anyone else. He actually stuck his head through an ice bucket on the set of his new CBS show Madame Secretary, and had the ice poured on top of him. He definitely earned his wings for this!
I don’t know where I have been, but did you know there were talks to do a Wings reunion? Something I have been waiting for 15 long years. But sadly it isn’t going to happen and Tim Daly aka Joe Hackett made sure it stays that way. Where is Monk, I mean Antonio Scarpacci when you really need him?
On a positive note I have been wondering what happened to Steven Weber and now we know. Well sort of… At least he is all over the Hollywood scene.
