Gilmore Girls

Our beloved Girls will not have new episodes until January 23! WOW - what a long break that is. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think I have any desire to watch the reruns on the CW. If I feel like watching an episode, it will most likely be on ABC Family. The ones from the good old days.

Gilmore Girls, The CW

Hep Alien has been sorely absent from this season’s Gilmore Girls. Now that Lane is pregnant, it looks as though the rock star dream will be on hiatus for awhile. I really miss Sebastian Bach’s guest appearances! Remember when he did “Hollaback Girl”? AWESOME! If you want to know what’s he is up to, check out this article.

Sebastian Bach, Gilmore Girls

The New York Post ran an article about Amy Sherman-Palladino’s new show. Check it out.

I’m still bummed she’s gone.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Gilmore uber-fan and critic Ausiello gives his take on this season:

Question: What do you honestly think about Gilmore Girls this season?— Jill Walker
Ausiello: The best compliment I can pay Dave Rosenthal is that it’s no better or worse than last season. On the plus side, I think he’s done a miraculous job of mimicking the Palladino style. Scene for scene, the show looks and sounds like Gilmore Girls (contrary to what the New York Times would have you believe). Unfortunately, DR has also mimicked AS-P’s occasional lapses of judgment, most notably the ill-conceived Lorelai/Christopher union and the so-far-pointless return of Marty. And don’t even get me started on Luke and Anna’s looming custody battle over April. I pray DR has the good sense to settle this dispute out of court. Bottom line: Given the dramatic power shift that occurred behind the scenes, I’m enjoying the season more than I ever thought I would. That said, I wouldn’t be crushed if our Girls packed it in this May. I think I’m ready to let go.

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Gilmore Girls, Michael Ausiello

Mike Ausiello over at TV Guide has an exclusive interview with Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. Check it out:

She’s baaack! Gilmore Girls’ beloved, loquacious creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, just got the green light from Fox to begin production on her new comedy, The Return of Jezebel James. And whom did she call first? I’m not gonna toot my own horn, but if you read on, you’ll figure it out for yourselves, as I get the ousted genius to dish not only on her upcoming series but also on her former one. She isn’t watching, but c’mon, AS-P simply wouldn’t be AS-P if she didn’t have something to say about it.

Ausiello: How’s unemployment?
AS-P: It’s fantastic! I’m so good at it! I never knew I had a talent for something like this!

Ausiello: Well, it sounds like you’re headed back to work. Tell me about the new show.
AS-P: It’s called The Return of Jezebel James, and it’s basically a sister buddy comedy. It’s about a very successful, very driven, very problem-solving kind of woman who’s a young-adult book publisher. She has her own imprint. And she decides to have a baby on her own, and the doctor says, “Whoops, you’re not going to be able to do that by yourself. Sorry, sweetheart!” And she winds up tracking down her younger, much-less-focused sister, who’s the polar opposite of her. And she says to her, “I will cut you a deal and pay you to carry my baby for me. But you have to move in with me, so that I can watch you and make sure it doesn’t come out with three heads.” And the younger sister, having very limited options, agrees, and that’s where our series takes off. But the pilot is these two women reconnecting and cutting a deal.

Ausiello: Is it an hour?
AS-P: It’s a half-hour multi-camera, baby!

Ausiello: Wow.
AS-P: “Oh, my god, are you kidding?!?!” I’m returning to my roots. The weird thing is I started on Roseanne, and I never thought I was going to be an hour-long writer. And then somewhere along the way, sitcoms started to be very bad, and very hard, and the process is very draining, and the opportunity to do Gilmore Girls kind of fell into my lap. For me it was returning to roots that I never thought I was going to leave in the first place.

Ausiello: So Fox is ordering a pilot, right?
AS-P: A pilot and, “Don’t annoy us.” That’s the other order, which I already told them I can’t fulfill. (Laughs)

Ausiello: Have you started casting the show in your head?
AS-P: I’ve been thinking about casting since I started writing this thing.

Ausiello: Can you tell me your dream picks?
AS-P: I don’t wanna say because then if I don’t get the dream, the second dream will have become my first dream. And then she’ll know that I liked another dream and say, “You didn’t like me first.” And then all of a sudden everyone’s dream is mad at each other’s dream, and then all the dreams are broken. But these characters, much like with Gilmore, really have to be able to do a lot of things. These are really tough-women parts. The older sister in the pilot has to be funny and strong and cry and flip out. There’s a lot of ground covered in the 22 minutes of craziness I plan to put on the air. It’s a search for another Lauren Graham. What’s nice to me about these girls — as opposed to Lorelai and Rory — is that Lorelai and Rory were so in sync with each other and that bond was so deeply engrained in them. These girls have no bond. (Laughs) These girls barely know each other’s telephone numbers. Their lives are so separate and so different. They really are building a brand new relationship, which is kind of nice.

Ausiello: Will Dan be involved?
AS-P: I’m workin’ on him. He’s my partner in crime. Nothing’s going to be as much fun, and, also, he’s the best that there is. I’m not going to find anyone better than him to move forward with. He’s avoiding me right now, but I am workin’ on him. (Laughs)

Ausiello: Now I have a few Gilmore Girls questions for ya.
AS-P: (Adopting a Southern accent) Oh, honey, I got nothin’ to say about Gilmore Girls.

Ausiello: At least tell me if you’ve been watching it.
AS-P: I have not been watching it.

Ausiello: Not at all?
AS-P: No. Couldn’t do it. I think we actually talked about this in my ginormous 12-hour marathon interview with you [last April].

Ausiello: You did, and Dan said you guys were going to watch it.
AS-P: He may’ve said that, but I’m a woman, honey. And women can fry up the bacon and bring it home in a pan. Here’s the bottom line: If it was great, I would feel horrible and want to throw myself off a building. And if it was not what I wanted it to be, I would throw myself off a… either way, I’d throw myself off a building. So there’s no good outcome there. You know, I still have friends there. I keep in touch with the cast. I just felt like it’s a new game and it’s a new show. Good, bad or indifferent, it’s a whole new thing.

Ausiello: Have you heard what they’re doing story-wise?
AS-P: I’m really disconnected. Is one of them possessed?

Ausiello: Lorelai and Christopher are married.
AS-P: Wasn’t that on the cover of TV Guide?

Ausiello: It was. We weren’t very discreet about that.
AS-P: You weren’t very discreet at all. You just threw it right out there, baby. I still read Mike Ausiello. That I read.

Ausiello: What was your reaction when you saw the cover?
AS-P: Look, it’s a new regime, it’s a new world. There are plenty of people who were not thrilled with me last year, so maybe they’re happier with the road that’s being taken now. I had my own ideas about everything, because I am me and, to me, my world and everything around me is really all I give a s–t about. So I had my own plans for this year. I had my own plans for a second year. And for a finale. But that didn’t happen. So they’ve got to go their own way. I have no contact with that staff. They’ve done it totally on their own. I wish them all well while I’m at the Century City Mall. (Laughs)

Ausiello: If they asked you to come back for the finale, what would you say?
AS-P: Because I don’t know where they’ve gone or what they’re doing, that’s almost an impossible question for me to answer because, like I said, I have it in my head how I want it to end, but that may not at all jive with what they’re doing now. I would say I don’t really see how that would happen, because it would be so weird for me to go, “OK, these writers have set their paths, so I’ll just do that.” That ain’t Amy. Amy can’t follow someone else’s path. Then she wouldn’t be the delightful human being that she is.

Ausiello: What if your ending will still made sense in the context of these new stories?
AS-P: Well, if it still made sense, then it’s definitely something we could talk about. I love that show. That show was my child. It was my everything. Dan and I did nothing but that show for six years. We’re still staring at each other like, “What do we talk about now?” And I love the crew there. My best friend, Helen, still works over there. And I adore Lauren and Alexis. I love them. I miss them very, very much. I miss not seeing them and working with them. So I can’t say that it wouldn’t be fun as hell to go back there and hang with them for a while. I’m just not sure if that’s really going to be possible. Our story lines were very meticulous. Dan and I crafted arcs to go way, way, way back — for good, bad or indifferent. Whether you liked it or not, we really put a lot of time and energy into setting up very early what we could pay off at the end, and I’m not sure that would be such an easy thing to pull off. I won’t say no, because it might happen. But I can’t see it right now.

Ausiello: Have you made peace with the way the whole thing ended?
AS-P: All those suckers can bite my ass, ladies and gentleman. It’s a business. I think they were wrong. (Laughs) I will always think that they were wrong to not sit down with us and figure out how this could work. The fact that there was no sit-down ever, no face-to-face with the studio or network to try and hash out what we needed and what we were asking for… that everybody just played it off like a negotiation… but that’s Hollywood. That will always piss me off, because it’s so frustrating that things get turned over to business affairs and then get reduced down to a strategy, as opposed to, “We’ve been in this for six years together. Can we sit down and talk about how we could make this work?” So, no. I’m still pissed off at something that was done to me in third grade. I’m very Russian in the, “You cross me, and I take your picture off the wall once you defect, and I don’t know you anymore” [sense]. It wasn’t personal, it was just what [Warner Bros.] felt they had to do. I’ll always be sad that I don’t get to close out Gilmore, because it was my kid. But I’ve got a new kid now. I’ve got a new baby now. I’ve got someone else to annoy me and make my ass chair-shaped.

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Amy Sherman-Palladino, Gilmore Girls

For all my knitting peeps out there, you too, can have the shirt that Lorelai wore on the episode “Knit, People, Knit.” Well, all it is missing is the caption “Knit or go home.” But I’m sure my crafty friends could fashion that on there if you so desire. The bad ass tee is available at Magpie.

Gilmore Girls, Knit People Knit, Lorelai Gilmore

Entertainment Weekly ran a fun article in their December 8 issue. It was gift guide with suggestions for the Lorelai Gilmore on your list among other TV characters. The suggestions for Lorelai were cute:

1) Punk Rock Onesies and Mohawk Ski Hats
2) LG Refrigerator with LCD TV
3) Chocolate candies/treats by Max Brenner the Bald Man
4) Left Field Cozy Knit Sweaters

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Lorelai Gilmore, Lauren Graham, Entertainment Weekly

Courtesy of Ausiello over at TV Guide:

Question: In the last podcast, you said that the story line on Gilmore Girls with Chris sulking and Luke helping Emily while Richard is sick has been “tweaked.” Does that also mean that Lorelai’s resulting epiphany about the two men has also changed?— Katie
Ausiello: Turns out it was just a minor “tweaking.” The story plays out the same way, with Luke running errands for Emily and Chris throwing a pity party for himself. But it’s my understanding that Lorelai’s epiphany will be more gradual. The end result, of course, will be the same: Luke in, Christopher out. Speaking of Episode 13, in a Gilmore first, nearly the entire hour will take place in the hospital. I hear there’s some great Lorelai/Emily stuff. It’s about damn time.

Gilmore Girls Season 7, Gilmore Girls Spoilers

The holidays are great and all, but you know what that means - no new TV for awhile. I guess I should get out in the world anyway! But to hold us over, here’s some scoop on what’s ahead after the holidays:

Luke continues the custody procedures but needs Lorelai to write a letter as character reference. Lorelai must babysit Davey, Sookie’s son. To help ease her time with the boy, Lorelai brings him a gift.

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So I was out of town last week, but I wanted to be sure to rant about that last episode. WOW! It was a good one, wasn’t it? Overall, I really enjoyed it. We finally got to see the plot move forward. Luke is fighting for April and big news, he is maybe ready to fight for Lorelai again. Meanwhile, Lorelai is beginning to have serious doubts about her marriage. She doesn’t jump at Chris’ wanting to have a baby, either. Remember when she told Luke, “yeah, kids would really be good”?? The end is near, I do believe. I think we’ll see the party with a major blowout on the scale of last season’s party meltdown (Rory and Logan hooking up, Chris drunk, Luke leaving Lorelai). But I guess we’ll have to wait a few weeks to see!

I’m bored with Rory’s story. Why is her storyline so dull?

Gilmore Girls Season 7, Luke and Lorelai, Rory

Ok, this is my favorite Lauren on Ellen appearance to date. From Valentine’s Day 2006. This is a must watch. Fast talking Lorelai bleeds over into Lauren Graham’s interview blur big time. This one is about George Clooney.

This clip has Lauren playing piano and singing a song to Ellen. This aired on the same day as the 100th episode of Gilmore Girls

Accroding to Kristin at E!, things are looking up!

From Wendy: I’m sick of no contact between Luke and Lorelai! What’s going to happen?
No worries, Wendy. The silence ends this week, and things are about to change. Unfortunately for Christopher, that means marital troubles are imminent. Luke will be back in Lore’s life, and the two will become a major support system to each other in the coming months.

Gilmore Girls, Luke and Lorelai

If you’ve never seen Lauren on a talk show, you’ve really missed out. She is very funny and always has a great story or two to share. I’m going to post a few of my favorites from her appearances on Ellen in the next few days. Enjoy!

These clips are from her first visit to Ellen promoting “Bad Santa” and are hilarious.

Lauren Graham, Gilmore Girls, Ellen

The director’s cut of tonight’s episode is up now. Check it out. Ouch — looks like trouble is starting now for the newlyweds…