GREY’S ANATOMY ( Sun March 30, Seven – 8:30pm)
Also returning this week is this excellent medical drama, which made headlines last year more for the homophobic antics of (eventually) fired star Isaiah Washington (he called gay co-star T.R Knight a ‘sniveling little f***ot’, refused to apologize and suggested Knight should be fired instead) than its multiple Emmy Nominations. Washington is gone now, but just when you think it’s safe to go back in the ICU and ogle hunky healers Patrick Dempsey and Eric Dane, a new controversy is brewing – numerous websites have sprung up calling for the sacking of Emmy-Winning Korean-American actress Sandra Oh (Dr. Christina Yang) because she’s ‘too ugly’. Personally, I think Oh is pretty, but surely her acting ability (Emmy-winner!) is more important than her looks on a dramatic series anyway? Perhaps, some ‘fans’ of the show need surgery on their over-active spite glands…
GOOD NEWS WEEK (Mon March 31, Ten – 9pm)
Got a fetish for tiny little men of suspect sexual preference, but don’t have the patience to marry a certain highly litigious Hollywood personality we won’t mention here?! Good News, people! GOOD NEWS WEEK, that is! The superb current affairs/comedy/gameshow that started on the ABC in 1996 and moved to and got cancelled by Channel Ten in 2000 is back, primarily due to the US Writer’s strike leaving a huge, sucking void in the programming schedule where a huge, sucking American sitcom would normally be. So GNW is back, once again hosted by diminutive dreamboat with the ambiguous amore, Paul McDermott. And now the bad news – spectacularly unfunny team captain Mike Robbins will also be returning, but Aussie dyke-icon and former rival team captain Julie McCrossin will not be.
