letterten 2007-08 fall preview | abc

ABC Wednesday 9pm

debuts Wednesday, September 26, 9pm

concept from	From Shonda Rhimes, the Golden Globe-winning creator of Grey's Anatomy comes a story about finding a way to begin the rest of your life. Addison Forbes Montgomery is a renowned surgeon. Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, a broken marriage with Derek McDreamy Shepherd, and her torn relationship with Mark McSteamy Sloan, Addison moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier possibilities. Addison reunites with her friends from medical school, Naomi and Sam Bennett, joining them at their chic, co-op, Oceanside Wellness Center in Santa Monica. Naomi, a fertility and hormone specialist and majority owner of the clinic, and Sam, an internist whose self-help books have made him the common man's medical guru, are newly divorced. They co-exist for the sake of their teenaged daughter, Maya, and their medical practice, but the relationship is hardly amicable.
stars	Kate Walsh, Amy Brenneman, Tim Daly, Taye Diggs, Audra McDonald, Paul Adelstein, KaDee Strickland, Chris Lowell
producers	Marti Noxon, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Mark Gordon, Andrea Newman, Mark Tinker
studio	ABC Studios

my take

As close as there is to a slam dunk on any schedule. Maybe. After the widely panned introduction in the form of a back-door pilot during Grey's Anatomy last season, Private Practice swapped a secondary lead and went under a lot of retooling. It's going to have a large portion of the Grey's audience on-board for at least the first few weeks. Promotion has been largely absent, with ABC focusing on other new shows. It needs to be much better than its initial appearance. The setup is fine, but needs to quickly become Grey's, but different. I think it can, and it's important to the success of Dirty Sexy Money which follows. Did I mention Amy Brenneman?