Private Practice News

This May 16, 2012 file photo shows Audra McDonald at the Friars Club Roast of Betty White in New York.

Network television needs Olivia Pope. The networks faced their worst numbers ever this season, and it has become basic knowledge that if you want daring, top-notch television, you go to cable.

An emerald-green silk chaise, a Craftsman-style lamp and scattered family heirlooms lend Southern-belle intrigue to the "Nashville" creator's Santa Monica work space.

With the fall schedules of the five broadcast networks announced, there's much to be anticipated.

A few days before she creates another moment at Lincoln Center, Audra McDonald says yes, she can remember some of the earlier ones.

In the seven years since her last album, Audra McDonald has kept busy. She spent several years in Hollywood, filming the television series Private Practice .

When the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Institute began putting together plans for a "Broadway at NOCCA" series, organizers had big dreams as to whom they wanted to bring to Lupin Hall, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts' main performance venue.

"Why couldn't Seinfeld have black people? Did they think black people wouldn't find it funny?" This was the question the producer/director/writer Issa Rae asked herself when creating her wildly popular Web series, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl .

Like FOX, ABC managed to order a host of new series this week without changing the overall structure of its schedule.

An emerald-green silk chaise, a Craftsman-style lamp and scattered family heirlooms lend Southern-belle intrigue to the "Nashville" creator's Santa Monica work space.

FOX's fall TV lineup includes a glut of comedy, not the least of which is "Enlisted." Geoff Stults stars as Sgt.

The Broadway revival of the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess closed in September 2012, but its star, Audra McDonald, says she's just now recovering from the role - both emotionally and physically.

"I love that the gay White House chief of staff is threatening to pretend the first lady is a closeted lesbian," Shonda Rhimes said to a roomful of writers.

ABC canceled the shows "Body of Proof," "Red Willow," "Happy Endings," "Malibu Country," and "How To Live With Your Parents ." The five shows canceled by ABC are joining five previously canceled shows which included "666 Park Avenue," "Don't Trust the B---- in Apt.

Addison Adrianne Forbes Montgomery-Shepherd is gone the way of the dodo bird, Hostess cakes and the cast of "What's Happening." "Private Practice" has uttered its last breath in the sixth and final season, available on DVD.

Audra McDonald 's five Tony Awards include best performer roles in musicals like "Ragtime" and "Porgy and Bess." She found wider acclaim appearing in four seasons of the hit ABC series "Private Practice." Now the Broadway legend is back onstage with a concert at the intimate Attucks Theatre.

Is your favorite show safe? Jace Lacob on what's on tap for the broadcast networks for the 2013-14 season, which shows are coming back, and which ones have gotten the ax.

It happens every now then. A television show so hot that fans wait with bated breath for it to air each week.

If you watch tonight's episode of "The Vampire Diaries" and think, "Man, this feels like a completely different show!" don't be alarmed.

Actress Kate Walsh, known for her role as Dr. Addison Montgomery on ABC's "Private Practice" and "Grey's Anatomy," made the rounds Thursday on Capitol Hill to lobby for offshore wind power with the ocean conservation group Oceana.