Private Practice

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Private Practice is a spin-off of the highly popular ABC series, Grey's Anatomy starring Kate Walsh as Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery, a renowned neonatal surgeon. After realizing that her life isn't advancing at Seattle Grace, Addison packs her bags and heads off to Santa Monica to start a new life. She reunites with her newly divorced med school friends, Naomi (Audra McDonald) and Sam (Taye Diggs), and joins them in their chic private practice. The series, created by Shonda Rhimes, is produced by ABC Television Studio in collaboration with The Mark Gordon Company and Shondaland Productions. It first aired as an episode of Grey's Anatomy. The episode, titled The Other Side Of This Life, was known as a backdoor pilot. It tested the idea of the show, but also shared the plot with Grey's Anatomy scenes weaving in and out, from which it was spin-off. Awards Young Artist Awards Category: Best Performance in a TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actor - Joey Luthman Year: 2009 Result: Won (Tied with Carlos Knight for "ER") NAMIC Vision Awards Category: Drama Year: 2009 Result: Nominated People's Choice Award Category: Favorite New TV Drama Year: 2008 Result: Nominated , Won the 4th place. Image Awards Category: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series - Taye Diggs Year: 2009 Result: Won Category:Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series- Audra McDonald Year: 2009 Result: Nominated Category: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series -Taye Diggs Year: 2008 Result: Nominated Category:Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series-Audra McDonald Year: 2008 Result: Nominated Category:Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series-Shonda Rhimes(In Which We Meet Addison, a Nice Girl From Somewhere Else) Year: 2008 Result: Nominated TV.com Fashion Awards Category:On Air: Best Overall Fashion - Male - Dr. Sam Bennett Year: 2008 Result: Nominated BMI Film & TV Awards Year: 2008 Result: Won, Tim Bright, Chad Fischer Year: 2009 Result: Won, Tim Bright, Chad Fischer Season 1 # Episodes : 9 Season Premiere: September 26, 2007- In Which We Meet Addison, a Nice Girl From Somewhere Else Season Finale:December 5, 2007 -In Which Dell Finds His Fight DVD Release: September 16, 2008 Viewers: 11.5 m Season 2 # Episodes : 22 Season Premiere: October 1st,2008 - A family thing Season Finale: April 30, 2009 - Yours, Mine and Ours DVD Release: September 15, 2009 Viewers: - Season 3 # Episodes : - Season Premiere: October 1st,2009 - A Death in the Family Season Finale: Spring 2009 DVD Release: - Viewers: -

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  • season premier....I've seen better, but it was decent. I have a real problem with some of the stupidity in this episode...they need to hire a better medical personnel to help them with their writing.moreless

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    By jeterlv, Dec 13, 2011
    Good show, but being in the medical profession it was irritating..if not disturbing to see the doctor (Addison) come out to ask her "friends" if they should save her uterus! I can tell you from real life long experience....they don't ask! (at least not in this situation) Doctors save lives and tell your family later the pt may not have children. It's a sad part of the circumstances, but they do everything in their power to save (all) of the patient if they can't they fix what they can to keep you alive.

    AND the stupidity was the doctor and her friends actually saying..If we/you save the uterus Violet will die. So what should the decision be?

    HOW can you use a uterus if you are dead? When would saving the uterus be an option if you die? Stupid Stupid Stupid writing and they should be paying attention to these things.moreless

  • Immature, selfish, disloyal, sexually craven people. They can all go to Hades.

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    By CTGEire, Nov 28, 2011
    It's like 6th grade homeroom. But the twelve year olds have adult bodies. So instead of kisses and giggles they exchange STDs and warts. In other words, this is incredibly shallow and immature tripe. To repeat the metaphor, its what a twelve year old who watched too many medical dramas would write if they made their own. Here's some advice, talk to people who actually work in medicine. I promise that the work is more dramatic and interesting than you could ever write about a bunch of self obsessed sex addicts. This seems like it could be a good rule for writing shows. Personal drama is always intense and gripping for those involved. But to everyone else it's like pulling out a big string of baby pictures. Get away from us with that!moreless

  • The best show in ages!

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    By pablobiglia, Oct 05, 2011
    The best TV show in ages. Private Practice is amazing, Shonda Rhimes really knows how to write a show and how to touch every fan. In my opninio, Private Practice is ten times better than Grey's Anatomy.
    The team is great, Paul, Tim, Amy, Kate, Audra, etc, they are just the best cast on the history of television.

    All the stories are touching. The caracters are wonderful, they have a great chemistry togheter. The recurring roles are always a great cliffhanger, because you know that, eventually, they will come back to another special story.

    Shonda deserves the best prize for this show!moreless

  • Doctors with too much time on their hands.

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    By addict666, Sep 18, 2011
    I keep wanting for this show to be better and I feel the more the writers try to make it more interesting the worse it gets. The first season was too boring and the third season has plots that are beyond ludicrous. They had a nice balance of things for a while but it was completely destroyed by the latest season. The mix of humor and comedy that Shonda Rhimes is known for is not quite pulled off in this show that relies too heavily on some of the characters for comedy and the others for drama. All the scenes with Violet are getting very hard to watch and I really hope the show goes in a lighter direction. Naomi is the one character who constantly delivers no matter how tiresome her and Sam's drawn out love affair lasts.moreless

  • Better than the Original

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    By AlexEdwards1, Sep 18, 2011
    I know, I know that makes me sound insane, but hear me out. Grey's Anatomy is a terrific show, and was my must see show of the week, but after the first phenomenol three seasons, things began to get overloaded. Espicially the humoungous cast, which is a burden sometimes to try and follow the stories when there are so many of them. Then I heard Kate Walsh's Addison Montogomery would be getting her own show, set in the sunny City of Angels. And thus a back door pilot was shown on Grey's. I immediatly fell in love with the quirky, yet lovable cast of characters, Amy Brenneman's outwardly collected, yet secretly neuorotic Psychiatrist Violet Turner and Paul Adlesteins' Porn obsessed yet geuniunly nice Pediatrician Cooper Freeman for example. Yet as the series went on I realized that the medical side of the show was much more developed than Grey's.
    After three years, the show finally is in a place where, outside of ratings, needs to be associated with Grey's as the storylines are much more original and intruiging.moreless
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