TV Guide: James Pickens Jr.

Listing: Holidaze

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:00:00 -0500

Thu Nov 19 09:00 PM ABC Bailey's father (Frankie Faison) visits for the holidays, and he voices his disapproval of her life choices. Meanwhile, a woman from Mark's past shows up, complicating things with Lexie; and Meredith defends the Chief when he's criticized by Thatcher (Jeff Perry). Teddy Altman: Kim Raver.

Listing: Begin the Begin

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0500

Mon Nov 16 08:00 PM LIFE The docs toast the New Year with a mandatory work limit, which Cristina finds constricting, and she complains about it to Bailey as they fly to harvest a heart for a patient with a crush on Izzie. Other patients include a frustrated novelist who has eaten his novel and a 14-year-old girl who hasn't reached puberty and yearns to be “normal.” Elsewhere, Addison detests Derek's trailer; Burke asks Cristina to move in with him; and Derek visits Ellis Grey (Kate Burton) without Meredith's knowledge.

Listing: Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500

Mon Nov 16 07:00 PM LIFE It's Christmas, but nobody's feeling the spirit, except for Addison and Izzie---and Izzie's mad at Addison. A very pregnant Bailey needs a rest but has a very busy day instead, and George must cope with an ulcer patient's annoying family. As Cristina and Burke perform a heart transplant on a depressed 10-year-old, they discover that spirituality is one more thing they don't have in common. Plus, this might be Alex's last day at work. He has to retake his boards tomorrow, and he expects to fail.

Listing: Owner of a Lonely Heart

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0500

Mon Nov 16 06:00 PM LIFE The quints present a number of challenges, and so does their mother (Margaret Welsh), who's depressed. The sickest infant is assigned to Izzie, who's taught a painful lesson in doctoring from Addison. Izzie is also seething at Alex, who's depressed because of a medical mistake he made. Meanwhile, George uses leeches to treat an avid outdoorsman with skin cancer; and a prisoner (Rosanna Arquette) swallows four razor blades to get a “vacation” from prison.

Listing: Glengarry, Glen Rosey

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:00:00 -0500

Sun Nov 15 07:00 AM TVLAND Dan's bills mount when he and Roger can't sell the house they refurbished---and Roger skips town. Nancy: Sandra Bernhard. Chuck: James Pickens Jr. Dan: John Goodman. Jackie: Laurie Metcalf.

Listing: Dead Presidents

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:35:00 -0500

Sun Nov 15 03:35 AM CINEMAX

Listing: Much Too Much

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500

Fri Nov 13 07:00 PM LIFE The impending birth of quintuplets (and the surgeries on the newborns that are certain to follow) preoccupy the surgeons, but not completely: Burke gives Cristina a key to his apartment, but she's not overjoyed about it; Izzie and Alex are having an intimate “problem” (Alex is, anyhow); and a guy Meredith picks up at Joe's bar leaves her house the following morning with an intimate problem of a different sort.

Listing: Thanks for the Memories

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0500

Fri Nov 13 06:00 PM LIFE It's Thanksgiving and Izzie's cooking a turkey, but nobody's excited about it. Meredith sneaks off to the hospital (on a day off), where she and Derek treat a man in a persistent vegetative state---who wakes up. Cristina and Burke arrive for the feast, and Burke promptly takes over in the kitchen while Cristina finds an excuse to go work. And George is dragooned by his father and brothers to go on a turkey shoot.

Listing: Construction Junction

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:30:00 -0500

Fri Nov 13 05:30 AM NIK Dan weighs the options of giving up his boring garage job for a construction project with his pals (James Pickens Jr., John McConnell). Meanwhile, Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) surfs the Internet---and becomes addicted.

Listing: Out of the Past

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0500

Fri Nov 13 05:00 AM NIK Nana Mary (Shelley Winters) amuses Roseanne and Jackie with a box of their childhood treasures; Bev regales Becky and Darlene with colorful stories about their mother; and Dan and his pals play poker with Leon and Scott.

Listing: New History

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:00:00 -0500

Thu Nov 12 09:00 PM ABC Owen recruits a fellow Iraq-war vet (Kim Raver) as the new cardiothoracic surgeon, and Cristina questions the move for both personal and professional reasons. Meanwhile, Izzie returns with her high-school mentor, who's seeking treatment for dementia; and the stresses caused by the merger are taking their toll on the Chief. Dr. Singer: Joel Grey. Adele: Loretta Devine.

Listing: Let It Be

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0500

Thu Nov 12 08:00 PM LIFE A young woman who was friendly with the Shepherds in New York arrives in Seattle and asks Addison to remove her uterus because she's at risk for cancer. But her husband objects because he wants children. And a hospital window washer survives a five-story fall (though the bird he landed on didn't), then begs George and Meredith to find his ex-girlfriend. Elsewhere, Meredith keeps running into Derek; Cristina gets dressed up for a date with Burke; and Bailey complains of being tired.

Listing: Something to Talk About

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500

Thu Nov 12 07:00 PM LIFE As Derek and Addison see a therapist to try to put their marriage back together, Meredith and the other interns “steal” a psych patient who says he's pregnant. He isn't, but he isn't crazy, either. Meanwhile, Alex tries to talk a reluctant 18-year-old into an operation that could let her walk again; George has a heart-to-heart with the mousy husband of a bossy heart patient; and Cristina and Burke wrestle with whether to “come out” as a couple.

Listing: Into You like a Train

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0500

Thu Nov 12 06:00 PM LIFE Meredith's long wait for “McDreamy” at Joe's bar is ended abruptly by a train wreck, which causes a rush hour in the ER. Cases include a young woman and a middle-aged man impaled---together---on a pole. They had been strangers but they bond quickly. Meanwhile, Cristina can't find an amputee's severed leg; Addison and Izzie try to save a badly burned pregnant woman's baby; and Alex treats a woman with an annoying friend.

Listing: Bring the Pain

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0500

Wed Nov 11 08:00 PM LIFE Lightning knocks out the power to the hospital, which leaves Alex and George stuck in an elevator with a patient---a police officer with a gunshot wound. The blackout also causes Cristina's patient, a man with a herniated disk, to lose access to his pain “medication,” i.e., porn videos. Meanwhile, Ellis, who's about to be discharged, keeps reliving her affair with Richard; and Meredith, who's assigned to work with Shepherd, gives him an ultimatum. Addison: Kate Walsh. Ellis: Kate Burton.

Listing: Deny, Deny, Deny

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500

Wed Nov 11 07:00 PM LIFE Addison (Kate Walsh) has divorce papers prepared; now all that she and Derek have to do is sign them. Meanwhile, Cristina, recovering from emergency surgery, proves to be an impossible patient, particularly when her mother is at her bedside. Speaking of mothers (and impossible patients), Ellis Grey (Kate Burton) keeps giving George fits. And Bailey's tough exterior cracks when a young man with cystic fibrosis---one of her first patients when she was an intern---returns to the hospital.

Listing: Make Me Lose Control

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0500

Wed Nov 11 06:00 PM LIFE The secret's out when Meredith's mother (Kate Burton) is hospitalized for diverticulitis. And Cristina's secret gets out when she collapses in agony while assisting Burke in surgery. Meanwhile, the Drs. Shepherd work together on the case of a heroin-addicted infant; a young woman who can't stop blushing arrives at the hospital; and George finally finds a way to wield power over Alex.

Listing: Enough Is Enough (No More Tears)

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0500

Tue Nov 10 08:00 PM LIFE While Meredith and Cristina lick their wounds, they're kept busy in the extremely overbooked OR. Two of the cases stem from a car wreck caused by an alcoholic wife beater whose biggest advocate is his wife. Then there's a man with an obstructed bowel, who swears that he didn't ingest drugs. And a brain-dead woman whose organs are to be harvested is on the way. Meanwhile, George has something to tell the nurse who gave him syphilis. And Webber's wife (Loretta Devine) arrives to take him home.

Listing: Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500

Tue Nov 10 07:00 PM LIFE Derek's wife, Addison, a surgical superstar from New York, is in Seattle to perform a fetal-heart operation. Derek isn't pleased to see her, and Meredith is feeling very betrayed. Meanwhile, Derek and Burke have some superstar surgery of their own to perform. Cristina has something to tell Burke and, as it happens, Burke has something to tell Cristina. And Webber appoints George to be his “eyes and ears” while he's recovering from surgery.

Listing: Who's Zoomin' Who?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0500

Tue Nov 10 06:00 PM LIFE Webber has eyesight problems, George gets a girlfriend (and a rash) and Meredith gets a surprise. Meanwhile, Burke's best friend (Wayne Wilderson) is a patient at Seattle Grace. And Izzie and Cristina must perform an unpleasant procedure they've never done before on an alcoholic. Addison: Kate Walsh.

Listing: Honor Thy Mother

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:30:00 -0500

Tue Nov 10 12:30 PM OXYGN While Roseanne plans a spa trip, Dan struggles with unanswered philosophical questions and worries about a family member. Chuck: James Pickens Jr. Leon: Martin Mull. Dan: John Goodman.

Listing: Save Me

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0500

Mon Nov 9 08:00 PM LIFE Shepherd's tight-lipped about himself to Meredith, which adds to the tension between them when they disagree about a mountain climber with an unexplained paralysis. Meanwhile, a psychiatric patient with seemingly psychic powers psychs out Izzie; a pregnant woman with breast cancer befuddles Cristina; George meets his match when he has to intubate a patient; and Burke tells an Orthodox Jewish teenager with a heart defect that only a pig valve can save her.

Listing: The Self-Destruct Button

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0500

Mon Nov 9 07:00 PM LIFE Someone's been sleeping in Meredith's bed again, and when roomies Izzie and George find out who it is, they're not at all happy. But George is assuaged when Shepherd picks him to assist in a tricky and unusual brain operation on a 2-year-old girl. Meanwhile, Izzie must perform a bronchoscopy on a guy who swallowed his girlfriend's car keys. On purpose. And Alex, a former college wrestler, meets another ex-grappler in the clinic. The guy had asked a friend to shoot him because “I like the scars.”

Listing: If Tomorrow Never Comes

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0500

Mon Nov 9 06:00 PM LIFE The doctors treat a woman (Alex S. Alexander) with a 65-pound tumor and a man (Bruce Weitz) with Parkinson's disease. Also, Meredith's relationship (if that's what it is) with Shepherd gets her in trouble with Bailey, while George ponders asking Meredith for a date, and Izzie has her own affair of the heart. Annie's Mom: Jane Galloway Heitz. Mr. Levangie's Daughter: Lara Phillips.

Listing: F/X

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:30:00 -0500

Mon Nov 9 04:30 PM HBO2e

News: Grey's Anatomy's Jessica Capshaw on Callie and Arizona's Impending Troubles

TV Guide — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:43:00 -0500

Last week on Grey's Anatomy, Derek Shepherd stepped into the spotlight, saving a co-worker's legs and life. This week, Arizona Robbins (Jessica Capshaw) steps into it, testing her ethics while trying to save a patient — a 10-year-old whose parents have millions to donate to the hospital. Could Arizona bring Seattle Grace out of economic turmoil? Capshaw tells TVGuide.com about the challenges her character will face, the upcoming speed bumps for Arizona and Callie (Sara Ramirez) and the possibility for wedding bells at Seattle Grace...

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