Lynette Rice

How to Save a Life (eBook, ePUB)

The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first inside story of one of TV's most popular and beloved dramas, Grey's Anatomy.

'I'm a Black woman casting my own show. I wanted their world to look like the world that I live in. I don't think about it in those terms [diversity], and I militantly think I don't have to.' Shonda Rhimes

'Multiple generations have discovered Derek through Netflix. They are passionate around the world. It's humbling.' Patrick Dempsey

More than 15 years after its premiere, Grey's Anatomy remains one of the most beloved dramas on television in the US and the UK. It continues to win its time slot and has ranked in the Top 20 most watched shows in primetime for most of its 17-season run. It currently averages more than 9 million viewers each week.

Now it's time to hear from the people who made the show happen.

A cultural touchstone, it introduced the unique voice and vision of Shonda Rhimes, it made Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh and T.R. Knight household names, and injected words and phrases into the cultural lexicon like 'McDreamy,' and 'you're my person.' And the behind-the-scenes drama has always been just as juicy as what was happening in front of the camera, from the high-profile firing of Isaiah Washington to Katherine Heigl's fall from grace and Patrick Dempsey's shocking death episode. The show continued to haemorrhage key players, but the beloved hospital series never skipped a beat.

Lynette Rice's How to Save A Life takes a deep dive into the show's humble start, while offering exclusive intel on the behind-the-scenes culture, the most heartbreaking departures and the more polarizing plotlines. It's the perfect gift for all Grey's Anatomy stans out there.

'It's incredible how this show just keeps resonating with the young generation. It's really touching.' Ellen Pompeo

'As much of my life as I feel like I [gave that] character, she has saved me and helped me grow into the artist that I am. . . . If [Shonda] didn't ask me to come back for the series finale, I would hurt her.' Sandra Oh

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Headline
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472290342
• Artikelnr.: 62328335

Autorenporträt

LYNETTE RICE has covered the entertainment industry for twenty-five years. She's currently an editor-at-large at Entertainment Weekly and was the only journalist to secure an exclusive interview with Patrick Dempsey after his 2015 departure from Grey's Anatomy. She previously wrote about the TV industry for The Hollywood Reporter. A native of Redlands, California, How to Save a Life is her first book. She lives in Sherman Oaks, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Author's Note
Cast of Characters
1 "Pick Me, Choose Me, Love Me," or, How It All Began
2 "The Fairy Tale May Be Slightly Different Than You Dreamed," or, Working
with an Ensemble
3 "You Give Them Someone to Run To," or, The Care and Feeding of Fans and
Media
4 "He's Gone. I'm Free," or, How Isaiah Washington Brought Shame to Seattle
Grace
Interlude: "Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol
5 "I Need a Reason to Get Up Every Morning," or, How Addison Montgomery
Kicked Off the Spin- offs
6 "You Fought. You Loved. You Lost," or, A Look Back at Some of the Most
Polarizing Relationships on the Show
7 "There's an End to Every Storm," or, How Katherine Heigl Went from Famous
to Downright Infamous
Interlude: "How to Save a Life" by the Fray
8 "He's Very Dreamy, but He's Not the Sun," or, How Grey's Anatomy
Loved-Then
Learned to Live Without-Patrick Dempsey
9 "It's a Beautiful Day to Save Lives," or, The Guest Stars Who Survived
and Some Who Didn't
10 "Somebody Sedate Me," or, How Grey's Anatomy Managed to Gross You Out
11 "Not Everyone Has to Be Happy All the Time. That Isn't Mental Health.
That's Crap," or, Eleven of the Most Memorable Episodes of Grey's Anatomy
12 "Trauma Always Leaves a Scar," or, The Most Heartbreaking Departures and
Deaths . . .
Interlude: "Keep Breathing" by Ingrid Michaelson
13 "We Have to Keep Reinventing Ourselves, Almost Every Minute, Because the
World Can Change in an Instant," or, How Shonda Rhimes and Ellen Pompeo
Became the Highest-Paid
Women in Television
14 "Everybody Wants Their Place in History," or, Deciding When to Hang Up
the Scrubs
Entertainment Weekly Sources
Acknowledgments
Index