http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/ellengray/ Look for her columns in the Daily News Monday through Thursday. She can be reached at graye@phillynews.com.]]> en-us 2007-07-27T01:30:05-05:00 2012-02-07T07:41:02-05:00 Nathan Fillion and Dana Delany aren't the only new neighbors on ABC's "Desperate Housewives." Look for a gay couple to move onto Wisteria Lane this season. "Housewives" creator Marc Cherry, holding forth at an ABC party on The Very Last... http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/ellengray/2007/07/welcome_to_the_neighborhood.html Earlier in the Television Critics Association's summer meetings -- months ago, as one reporter puts it -- NBC entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman told us he'd had conversations about bringing Isaiah Washington to NBC even before he knew that Washington's contract... http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/ellengray/2007/07/practice_and_the_imperfect.html Someone's just asked the entire cast of ABC's "Men in Trees" what they've learned about relationships this past year. Which, if you're a nosy person who occasionally peruses the Tattle column, you might consider a tricky question to pose to... http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/ellengray/2007/07/going_fishing_with_men_in_tree.html As the session for ABC's "Dirty Sexy Money" gets under way, the cast of "Carpoolers" is out in the ballroom lobby, taking pictures of their own pictures, which are plastered on a hotel pillar. You're taking pictures of yourselves? I... http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/ellengray/2007/07/for_carpoolers_life_in_the_fas.html I'm not sure how much I should burden you with ABC's session for "Cavemen," given that most of the people reading this haven't seen the original pilot -- and won't, at least until about eight episodes in, by which point... http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/ellengray/2007/07/more_cavemen_here_than_wed_rea.html ABC press release of the day, regarding the show "Just for Laughs," which premieres on the network Aug. 7, with Episode 101. "In the release issued just a little earlier, 'Episode 101' was erroneously listed as the season finale. Attached... http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/ellengray/2007/07/just_for_laughs_we_hardly_knew.html "Pushing Daisies" director/executive producer Barry Sonnenfeld, who's not exactly an unknown (you may recall his work as a director in "Men in Black" and "Addams Family Values"), is mildly miffed that some critics have apparently likened the pilot to the... http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/ellengray/2007/07/credit_where_credits_due.html If you're currently listening to "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" on CD -- or have listened to any of the other Potter books -- you already know the voice of Jim Dale, who's also the narrator of ABC's "Pushing... http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/ellengray/2007/07/if_youre_currently_listening_t.html The blog's been resting, but the critics have not, as a bunch of us did lightning visits to studios from Hollywood to Burbank, meeting with the casts of TNT's "The Closer," NBC's "Heroes," CBS' "Two and a Half Men" and... http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/ellengray/2007/07/putting_the_tour_back_in_press.html "Gilmore Girls" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, here to talk about her new Fox sitcom, "The Return of Jezebel James," gets "the inevitable question" and the answer is no. As in, no, she didn't watch the finale of the show she didn't... http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/ellengray/2007/07/last_words_just_kidding.html Julianna Marguilies returns to regular series TV next season for the first time since she left "ER" in 2000. The star of Fox's "Canterbury Law" didn't come easily. Margulies says that when she first got the pilot script for the... http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/ellengray/2007/07/julianna_marguilies_returns_to.html Last season, there were reports that NBC had backed away from making Zach -- Claire the cheerleader's buddy -- on "Heroes," gay, and speculation that managers for actor Thomas Dekker, who's no longer on the show, had insisted the character... http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/ellengray/2007/07/terminating_the_controversy.html Don't expect to see Arnold "Terminator" Schwarzenegger on Fox's "Terminator" movie franchise spinoff, "The Sarah Connor Chronicles." "The reality is, as governor, he's incredibly busy. As a star, he's incredibly expensive," says consulting producer James Middleton, who's also overseeing the... http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/ellengray/2007/07/no_arnold_for_sarah_connor.html If the wedding on the season finale of Fox's "Bones" seemed just a little sudden, producers tell us that's because we missed the episode where Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) was working up to his proposal to Angela (Michaela Conlin), asking a... http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/ellengray/2007/07/tiptoeing_around_tragedy.html Cherry Jones will be playing the president of the United States when Fox's "24" returns next winter for "Day 7." "Applause to Joel [Surnow] and Bob [Cochran] and Howard [Gordon} for consistently reaching," says Fox entertainment chairman Peter Liguori, who... http://blogs.phillynews.com/dailynews/ellengray/2007/07/24_puts_a_cherry_on_top.html