ABC's new fall shows slant toward Grey's Anatomy DVDdrama — they've got a very strong night of comedy already on Wednesday nights, and they're looking to fill the void being left by Lost, so it makes a certain amount of Grey's Anatomy DVD set.
The new Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset dramas include Off The Map, which is almost exactly Grey's Anatomy DVD — it's from Grey's Anatomy seasons 1-5 DVD boxset creator Shonda Rhimes — except that Grey's Anatomy DVD involves doctors who have gone off to assist the less fortunate in a faraway land.
The other Grey's Anatomy DVD Set the network seems most excited about is No Ordinary Family, which stars Michael Chiklis (Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset) and Julie Benz (of Dexter) as the parents of a family that abruptly obtains supernatural powers. No, really. They've got the Grey's Anatomy DVD actors lined up, and this is actually the kind of show I can easily envision becoming a hit, but it remains to be seen how superpowers are going to plug into an ongoing story.
There's also a legal Grey's Anatomy seasons 1-5 DVD boxset called The Whole Truth, which is one of those legal-drama names that tells you absolutely nothing except that ... Grey's Anatomy DVD is a legal drama. The gimmick is that you follow both the defense and the prosecution, so you supposedly will feel pulled between the two sides.
I fear that the high concept may be a little too high with My Grey's Anatomy DVD set, which involves — stay with me — a group of people who were filmed for a documentary as high-school students and then are revisited by the documentary crew ten years later. So it's like otherGrey's Anatomy DVD boxsetshows, except that it's sort of a combination of two faux-documentaries.
The most irritating title comes from Grey's Anatomy seasons 1-5 DVD boxset, complete with hyphens, which is a cop show starring Michael Imperioli of The Sopranos. This Grey's Anatomy DVD show also has faux-documentary elements, so you can consider that device to have blown right by "trend" and moved directly to "Grey's Anatomy DVD set."
And finally, for Grey's Anatomy DVD, we have Body Of Proof, another obnoxiously punny title attached here to a show about Dana Delany as a medical examiner who used to be a neurosurgeon. Case of the week, justice for the Grey's Anatomy DVD set, etc. Delany certainly has the goods as far as carrying a network drama, and it certainly didn't look terrible, but I have to say, it did look like practically every other Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset that is similar in type.
On the comedy front, I personally laughed most at the preview for Mr. Sunshine, which stars Matthew Perry and Allison Janney. Grey's Anatomy seasons 1-5 DVD boxset's a very, very Chandler-ish presentation of Perry, so if you hated him on Friends, you're not going to like it, is my guess. On the other hand, Grey's Anatomy DVD's non-laugh-tracked, which I found very flattering to him in the brief glimpse I saw, because broad takes often seem less quirky and more wry when there isn't a cackling crowd. And Allison Janney is divine, naturally, Grey's Anatomy DVD set, very different role from C.J. Cregg.
What we saw of Better Together was uneven, I thought. Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset's a comedy about three couples, one of whom has just met, one of whom has been dating for years, and one of whom is older and married. The opening sequence has a nice joke about couples asking each other how they look, but some of the other stuff fell a bit flat for me. Grey's Anatomy DVDt does have Debra Jo Rupp (That '70s Show), who's funny in most things she does, and the pilot was directed by sitcom giant James Burrows, so that will probably be worth a shot, at the very least. (This is the Grey's Anatomy DVD set show that's getting a spot in the fall in that cushy Wednesday-night block; The Middle will move to 8:00 p.m., and this will air between that and Modern Family.)
Happy Endings, I did not like at all. Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset's yet another gang-of-young-folks comedy, and nothing about the preview seemed at all fresh, or at all reflective of the smarter tone that comedy has taken on in recent seasons. The network calls it a "Grey's Anatomy DVD," and almost every time a network refers to something as "Grey's Anatomy DVD," it manages to be anything but modern — with the exception of Modern Family.
There's also one new unscripted Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset in the mix: if you like Undercover Boss and its conviction that rich people are secretly very kind and wonderful, you'll love Grey's Anatomy DVD Millionaire and its display of the very wealthy heading off to do volunteer work in secret. They're charged with finding "tGrey's Anatomy DVD set." Every single thing about this premise makes me cringe with every fiber of my being, but with that said, I haven't seen it yet. It's been pushed off to Friday nights, which can be a death slot, but perhaps those looking to unwind at the start of the weekend will enjoy a few tales about the Grey's Anatomy DVD boxset of the extremely wealthy.
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