the new show w/ Julie Louis-Dreyfus?<p>did you catch last night's episode and know what's missing from this info found on NBS's site About the show?<p> <blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Emmy Award-winning actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus (&#8220;Seinfeld&#8221 [img]images/icons/wink.gif" border="0[/img] returns to NBC as the star of &#8220;Watching Ellie,&#8221; a new half-hour comedy detailing the life of a Los Angeles club singer, Ellie Riggs (Louis-Dreyfus), a single woman living in Los Angeles whose life is examined weekly in a 22-minute snapshot uniquely presented in real time. <p>Each week, Ellie confronts all manner of annoyances, including her much-too-pretty, married younger sister Susan (Lauren Bowles, &#8220;Ghost World&#8221 [img]images/icons/wink.gif" border="0[/img] , mysterious international neighbor Ingvar (Peter Stormare, &#8220;Chocolat,&#8221; &#8220;Fargo&#8221 [img]images/icons/wink.gif" border="0[/img] , and ex-boyfriend Edgar (Steve Carell, &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221 [img]images/icons/wink.gif" border="0[/img] . Meanwhile, Ellie is trying to figure out just where she stands with her current &#8220;beau,&#8221; Ben (Darren Boyd, BBC&#8217;s &#8220;Smack the Pony&#8221 [img]images/icons/wink.gif" border="0[/img] , who&#8217;s a guitarist in her band. Don Lake (&#8221;Best in Show&#8221 [img]images/icons/wink.gif" border="0[/img] also stars as Ellie&#8217;s veterinarian neighbor, Dr. Zimmerman. <p>Written and created by executive producer Brad Hall (NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; &#8220;Brooklyn Bridge&#8221 [img]images/icons/wink.gif" border="0[/img] , the &#8220;Watching Ellie&#8221; premiere was directed by Ken Kwapis (&#8220;Malcolm in the Middle,&#8221; &#8220;The Larry Sanders Show&#8221 [img]images/icons/wink.gif" border="0[/img] . The series is produced by NBC Studios.
<hr></blockquote><p>Cali

Could it be that fact that..................<p>BEN IS MARRIED?!!!!!!!!!! and Ellie is the OW? [img]images/icons/mad.gif" border="0[/img] <p>Saw one episode, and that was enough for me.<p>[ April 17, 2002: Message edited by: Conqueror ]</p>

I don't know... I have an almost morbid curiousity about it...<p>How will all play out? will there be a d-day...<p>will they show W? (this is the first episode I have seen).<p>Do her friends know he's married? They were all so matter-of-fact about him in her life...<p>I have this urge to write someone about the show... and I'm not even a d*** conservative... pretty liberal (though not about marriage and fidelity LOL)...<p>I wasn't sure to be relieved or sorry that H wasn't home to see it w/ me. [img]images/icons/confused.gif" border="0[/img] <p>Cali

I saw the episode where she was supposed to sing at a wedding and I thought it was terrible. She is less than a great actress, the plot was predictable, etc...and yes, it did not escape me that Ben is married. Geez.

This post I just had to reply to... I was not interested in the show - i had heard a lot of negatuve things so I didn't bother.<p>The night I found out about my H's A I went over my best friend's house (in tears of course). Guess what was on - Elly. First time I saw it. H had bought necklace for Elly. Turned out it was necklace W had pointed out to H. W found out he had bought necklace and was waiting to recieve it. Told him so on phone (did show wife) but he had already given it to Elly ( who hated it by the way). It kills me. It happens a lot I'm sure. The affection that we are begging for goes to OW.

We don't have a TV anymore. It eliminates a lot of triggers [img]images/icons/smile.gif" border="0[/img] Even the "foohiking" Cartoon Network has the Flintstones struggling with infidelity. It isn't the reason we got rid of it, but it helps.<p>While we were living at the hotel I saw a few episodes of this show. What strikes me as funny is that JLD is a happily married woman who by all accounts seems pretty dedicated to her children and husband.<p>Her hubby wrote this for her, they pitched it and she made a lot of demands, didn't want to work much, be away from family, insisted hubby very involved, etc.<p>I read once that they tried a night at a hotel to "get away from kids" and she went home crying within a few hours because she couldn't stand to be away from them. H said that she was "courageous" for doing this show because she could have just taken any old sitcom mom gig. <p>(Yes, they had TV guide at the hotel too [img]images/icons/smile.gif" border="0[/img] I am such an information junkie I will read anything I swear, shampoo bottles, Teen People, dissertations on magnetic resonance, a prospectus for a mutual fund I have no intention of ever owning, etc. Yes, I realize I have a problem.)<p>I hope for her and her children's sake that she never experiences a D-day but I wonder why hubby felt the need to write this particular scenario?<p>[ April 21, 2002: Message edited by: nursebetty ]</p>