This contains spoilers if you haven't watched season 1 or 2, so don't read if you haven't!
Patrick Dempsey is on the cover of the latest Entertainment Weekly.
(ew.com) He's such a cutie pie, but I always call him McDouche, cause I detest his character. And I hate Meredith too. ADDISON ALL THE WAY!!!! TEAM ADDISON.



Addison CRIES in the season 3 previews! I love my Addison and that breaks my heart. This also ramps up by dislike of Meh and McDouche.
LOL. Anyway, here's the article:
http://www.ew.com/ew/search/verity/...igin_brand=0&find=Jennifer Armstrong&x=7&y=10
MCDREAMY CHECKS IN Dempsey and those randy
Grey's MDs scrub in for season 3 of TV's most talked-about drama
In a sterile white corridor of Seattle Grace Hospital, three surgeons are slipping into tissue-papery garments called ''trauma gowns'' — which can only mean that there's serious business to attend to. They are seconds away from greeting an ambulance carrying a severely messed-up accident victim. But instead of silently concentrating to hone their focus or discussing ER strategy among themselves, the doctors of ABC's
Grey's Anatomy are doing what they do best: bantering about their sex lives.
''You and O'Malley, huh?'' says smart-alecky intern Alex Karev (Justin Chambers), needling badass orthopedist Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez) as he helps her tie her gown. ''How'd that happen?''
''I don't know,'' she snaps back. ''You're a surgeon — how'd that happen?''
But Alex's no-nonsense supervisor, Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson), is having none of it as she joins them mid-rush toward the emergency entrance. ''She's a resident,'' she scolds Alex. ''She outranks you. You don't ask her personal questions.'' It's a line that would sound perfectly reasonable on any other doctor drama — but on
Grey's Anatomy, it's a damn funny thing to say. After wrapping the scene, Wilson smiles and cracks, ''Not talking about our personal lives? At Seattle Grace? Come
on.''
Playing doctor with each other (and gossiping about it incessantly) actually trumps
being doctors for this staff. And the hot docs' bedside manners have made the third season of
Grey's Anatomy the most anticipated series return of the fall. Of course, it's not just the 20 million fans who are breathlessly awaiting the Sept. 21 premiere: Now that the hospital serial has taken up residence on Thursdays opposite CBS' forensics phenom
CSI, ABC execs are hoping for their first seriously competitive lineup on that night since 1978's
Barney Miller/Soap combo. ''This is the golden age of broadcast drama, and
Grey's is clearly a centerpiece of that,'' says ABC Entertainment president Stephen McPherson. ''This is a chance to grow our schedule. There's a lot of doomsday talk of 'Oh, my God, two or three hit shows against each other!' But we're hoping there's plenty of room for everyone.''
In other words, the stakes couldn't be higher if, say, a patient showed up with an unexploded bomb in his chest.
ON CALL Rather than shoot a movie on hiatus, Pompeo plugged for the series on an international PR campaign
The good news is the Seattle Grace crew is great at performing under pressure. Coming off last season's Super Bowl-fueled high (the postgame episode lured 38 million viewers),
Grey's soon found itself surpassing the gals of Wisteria Lane in numbers
and watercooler worthiness. ''We're at a fork in the road,'' says Dr. McDreamy himself (or, as his friends call him, Patrick Dempsey). ''People are aware of what's happened to other shows [in their sophomore seasons] and what the traps can be. As long as we stay true to the essence of the first season, the show will have a strong place in history. Otherwise, we're just a flash in the pan.''
The flash is burning pretty brightly these days, what with 11 Emmy nominations this year (and one win for Outstanding Casting), a recent round of bonuses for series regulars (a reported $200,000 each), and a new pilot deal for creator Shonda Rhimes. (It's a drama, potentially for next year, about female journalists, featuring Jeffrey Dean Morgan — a.k.a. Denny.) Not to mention the less obvious signs that the show has arrived — like some promotional swag Chambers has displayed in his trailer: ''I think the fact that we're on a bumper sticker is a sign of the times.'' There's also the fan obsession with
Grey's McLanguage — which started with Dr. Derek Shepherd's nickname, McDreamy. ''It's really amazing that this thing that we came up with while shooting the pilot, just because Patrick Dempsey is so adorable, stuck,'' Rhimes marvels. Almost as popular as the McLanguage is Bailey's pet name for her privates. ''When I turned on the morning shows the day after the Super Bowl episode and everyone was using the word
va-jay-jay, '' Rhimes says, ''that was really surreal.''
The entire experience of being on
the hit show of the moment still feels a bit surreal to the cast. ''When I got invited on
Oprah I thought, Whoa, okay, this
is big,'' says Ellen Pompeo, who plays angsty intern (and McDreamy's forbidden squeeze) Meredith Grey. ''I feel really lucky — all of us realize how difficult it is to get the stars to align.'' Sandra Oh — who has scored two Emmy nominations for her portrayal of prickly Cristina Yang — is just happy to see everyone's long hours paying off. ''It's a hard show to shoot,'' she says. ''So it's extremely satisfying when a large, really diverse audience is enjoying the show.''
Starring on a TV phenomenon often translates to more big-screen opportunities, but not everyone has been able to capitalize on their
Grey's cachet. Dempsey plays Hilary Swank's husband in the upcoming drama
Freedom Writers (which he worked into his
Grey's shooting schedule last season) and stars as a divorce lawyer romancing Amy Adams' banished princess in Disney's
Enchanted (which he filmed on his summer hiatus). Pompeo, however, opted to spend her summer doing
Grey's publicity abroad instead of shooting a film in the three-month break (''I mean, I can exhaust myself anytime''). Kate Walsh, who plays Derek's adulterous wife, Addison, had to drop out of the Stephen King adaptation
1408 because of scheduling conflicts with her day job. And Isaiah Washington has encountered a different roadblock: ''I don't get calls for roles in movies because they think I'm too expensive now,'' says the actor, who plays fussy-yet-sexy surgeon Preston Burke. ''They didn't want to pay me for the first 35 films I did, and now they want to pay me $75 a week because they think I can afford it.''
INTERN-AL AFFAIRS Charting the romantic ups and downs of O'Malley (Knight) finds him bouncing to Callie (Ramirez) after crushing on Meredith
It was 7 a.m. on Tuesday, May 16 — the day after part 2 of last season's finale had aired — when the phone rang at
Grey's writer Tony Phelan's Pasadena home. A female voice said, ''Is this Tony Phelan? The Tony Phelan who writes
Grey's Anatomy?'' Figuring it was someone from ABC calling to congratulate him on good ratings for the episode (which he and his wife, Joan Rater, had co-written with Rhimes), he said yes. Then the caller exclaimed, ''How could you kill Denny?'' Turns out it was an enterprising fan phoning from New Jersey. ''It just shows you how invested people are,'' Phelan says, then adds, ''We're not listed anymore.''
Grey's viewers are nothing if not passionate, especially about the tortured love triangle between Meredith, Derek, and sultry neonatal surgeon Addison. Well, love
square — if you count Meredith's new beau, Finn ''McVet'' Dandridge (Chris O'Donnell). Make that a pentagon, if you figure in the guy Addison cheated with, Dr. ''McSteamy'' (actor Eric Dane, who probably has a full character name, but whatever). Actually, it's a hexagon if you include sweet intern George O'Malley (T.R. Knight), who was head over heels for Meredith before he met Callie. (Okay, that would be a heptagon.) At any rate, it's very complicated — and audiences can't get enough. ''People
always ask me who I'm gonna pick,'' Dempsey says. ''It's the thrill of the chase.''