I'm actually primed to like this episode from the get-go because they are playing "Birdhouse in Your Soul" and I love that song... though it is now permanently associated with Pushing Daisies in my mind. Way to rub it in ABC. Then I see that Robin Weigert (who will always be Calamity Jane to me) and Tessa Thompson (who will always be Jackie to me) are playing pregnant women who are accidentally carrying each other's embryos, and Bill Buchanan is back trying to woo Naomi away and I'm all giddy. Then I realize that Naomi is a moron for getting the embryos mixed up in the first place and I'm all annoyed again.

I immediately presume that it is Naomi's fault, that she was distracted about some guy. But the rest of the Oceanside staffers blame Dell. Even the lawyer advises that they fire his ass. Of course this is the lawyer that Naomi is sleeping with. So... they decide that Dell can't deliver any kids and he's got nothing to do and then Heather comes back and she's all strung out. She'll give him his kid in exchange for 10 grand. A bargain! So Dell goes begging Naomi for money and says that he really is to blame because he was rightly concerned that his junkie ex would lose his daughter. Sam catches wind and gives him the what for and then gives him the cash, but Dell decides to basically just steal the kid away and not give Heather the money after all because she'll just kill herself.

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Let's start with the bad stuff. We have a really lame and ridiculous patient of the week: a woman who suffered from delusions and went on medication to cure them, but got pregnant and is now off the meds. There is no sign of a husband or boyfriend, which is possibly because of the crazy after she went off the meds. And the crazy? It is definitely in full force. A slew of doctors, including the glorious and all-knowing Addison Montgomery, tells her that her baby has no heartbeat and has died, but Crazy refuses to believe it and won't have the fetus removed. It makes her sick, of course, but Violet refuses to let Pete and Addison declare it an emergent situation and remove the fetus forcefully. She thinks she can convince her, but she can't. Fortunately, Dell can. The bad news is that the reason he's relating to her is that Heather took off with Betsy and he's apparently also realizing that his baby's gone forever. Uh, yeah, that's not the same at all, and I'd hope he hasn't given up that easily. Also in the "bad" category is slutty Naomi, who wants to sow her oats so badly that she hits on every guy who she sees, dances until 4 AM., and asks Sam to set her up with his basketball frenemy despite telling him last week she could no longer help him with Sonya. Continuity fairies were not paying attention here.

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It's a little hard for me to know where Grey's ended and this show began, because all of the stuff in Seattle sort of ran together. But I'll give it a try, starting with the easy stuff at Oceanside.

Dell continues to be relegated to irrelevance, which continues to irk me since I still have lingering affection for him from his time spent as Piz. Charlotte is still annoyed at Cooper for wanting to be there for Violet. She even gives him this impassioned speech about how he can't be best friends with a woman if he wants to be with a woman, which ... is just stupid and backwards and irritating. Seriously. Charlotte is cute and used to be funny, but I find her whining about Violet so tiresome at this point that I don't find it remotely feasible that Cooper could still care.

Also staying the same: Violet. She's still being selfish about the baby, and not letting Pete (totally the dad) in, even though he really wants to be part of this. It all plays out with a patient who tried to kill her baby and came to Cooper for help not killing it. She has postpartum depression and psychosis or something. I'll use the captioning when I weecap and give you much more complete information, of course. Pete and Violet both use the mother and baby to make their own arguments, but in the end, Pete calls Violet on how selfish she's being and then walks away. He totally wins this one.

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We all know some big-ol' crossover-worthy drama happens tonight, but let's start with the small stuff. Literally. As in, Violet's fetus. She continues to keep it a secret, until Dell gives her an ultrasound and tells her that the cramping she's having is caused as much by the secret she's keeping as the baby she's carrying. So she spills to Pete and Sheldon AT THE SAME TIME, and they are angry and confused, respectively. But it turns out they'd both like a baby, so Violet's going to have all the support she needs. Which will come in handy for Cooper, who spills Violet's secret to Charlotte and explains why he's living with her. Charlotte's response is that all of the first things he's going to experience being the "daddy" here should be experienced with their baby. Which is actually a cute point, and surely Violet will tell him to go away once she hears it (especially since she'll be busy fighting off the attentions of Daddies 1 and 2. Daddy 3 can go on back to Charlotte and replace Big Daddy).

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Archer's still in town and Addison's not at all happy about it. See, she thinks that if she moves somewhere, then her brother is not allowed to live there, even if he gets a good job and all that. She swears she's not mad that he's sleeping with Naomi. Speaking of that, Naomi finds out Archer's dating other people, because he's just a (monotone) good-time guy, which is good. Or so he tells her. In addition to being a good-time guy, he's also a good neurosurgeon. And after he and Addison work together to save a pregnant woman who's having a stroke, she comes around and tells him he can stay. Then he cancels his date and tells Naomi she's a keeper.

Naomi also sees a 52-year-old woman who wants to have her dead daughter's embryos implanted. She says it's because her daughter wanted a child more than anything and she thinks that should happen. When Naomi tells Violet, Violet tells her not to do it because it turns out the daughter told Violet she hated her mom. So then Violet meets with the mom, who spouts all sorts of platitudes about being scared but wanting to be a good mother, and Violet is totally won over because it all speaks to her in this moment. She is really not the poster child for people continuing to work during pregnancy, is she?

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First of all, I need to apologize for how late this recaplet is. Although the apology should really be coming from DirecTV and my TiFaux, because it messed up and didn't record anything. And I hadn't added this show to my backup TiVo yet. So, now it's there, and you guys won't have to wait this long without a recaplet again. I know everyone's thankful.

Dell's Drama (also known as Hannah from Everwood, and man, can she still cry) is having her baby, when an emergency happens and they have to do a C-section. Then the baby has problems, and since the adoption isn't final, they want Drama to make the decisions, but she wants the Sinclairs to make all the decisions since she can't have anything to do with the baby or she'll feel like the baby's mother. They quickly back out, then the baby gets healthy and they come back. Dell's pissed, and siding with Drama on keeping the baby. Naomi wants him to back the hell off. So, he does, and Drama decides the baby belongs with the Sinclairs, after all.

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As soon as Sheldon finally manages to achieve an erection, Violet relieves him of it. Sheeeesh Vi, hasty much? I think he wanted to have it bronzed. Meanwhile, she's still sleeping with Pete, too. She confesses her dirty secrets to Cooper who's all "Yay sex, boo relationships!" But when Vi gets a UTI, Addison and Naomi have a serious talk with her lady parts. Face to...er...face. Violet eventually comes clean to both men, at the SAME DAMN TIME, and loses Pete, because he's much better looking, but manages to keep Sheldon, because he's sort of creepy. Elsewhere, Naomi learns Sam is dating Sonia and that Maya has met and likes her; Charlotte's father, "Big Daddy," is dying of cancer; and Cooper's social skills need some spit and polish.

Dell introduces us to our first case of the week -- the CF Family -- made up of single Dad Daron, daughter Gracie (age 9) and son Julian (age 2). Even though Daron seems the sickest, little Gracie has tested positive for Burkholderia Cepacia. Not only is her prognosis grim, but Daron and Julian have to stay away from her, completely. They can't touch her, or be with her, or they'll die. Addison, Cooper, and Pete make plans to whisk her off to the hospital. I throw my shoe at the TV. Kevin is back at Addison's, by the way, but things are tense between them, and her attraction to Wyatt grows, particularly when he takes an interest in Gracie's case and comes up with a long-shot treatment plan that's worked on some of his cancer patients who had opportunistic pulmonary infections. When it doesn't work for Gracie, it seems like Wyatt's lost his shot with Addison, but has he?

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Violet and Pete are continuing to have hot sex. This seems good, until Cooper gets involved, freaks out, and tells the whole office. Pete realizes he wants more than just hot sex, but she turns him down cold. Then Sheldon shows up and wants to be "friends" with Violet, and it seems that poor Pete is playing the third wheel, even though his fling with Violet destroyed his relationship with Meg.

Naomi wants Wyatt, for his brain and for his body. She's turned on by his experimental procedures, but when she can't help that miracle patient get pregnant, she turns to Addison, who is apparently the only qualified person around to do this tricky surgery. She's skeptical, but agrees to it, if only to get Naomi away from Wyatt, but then she realizes that blackmailing your friends is wrong. She also realizes that she misses SWAT, even though they have so many differences. But as the wise Paula Abdul once said, "Opposites Attract."

Dell gets a storyline and more than four words to say this episode, which is lovely, except that they are all about his daughter and his formerly drug-addicted baby mama. Things hit the fan when the mom drops his kid off for an entire day and he thinks she's off smoking the crack pipe somewhere on a beach with Amy Winehouse. Turns out that she was interviewing for a job and Dell looks like an ass. But they make nice... for the kid.

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Everyone knows the practice is in financial trouble, but no one but Addison is willing to do anything about it. Under Addison's unique form of torture (read: turning him into a bill collector) Dell confesses that Sam and Naomi are holding onto 10,000 square feet of unused office space. Addison calls them on it, but they won't budge. It is their field of dreams.

Speaking of dreams, last year, before Addison and her high horse joined the practice, they had all decided to help a dying girl achieve her dream of motherhood. When young Jenna is mid-IVF, Addison catches wind of the situation and moves to but the kibosh on the whole thing. Only she does it by convincing the girl's husband that he wants to go to UPenn instead of becoming a father. Go ivy!

Violet tries to prove she has a friend who is not Cooper, but the transparent attempt is disastrous. Turns out her friend only got in touch with her because she wants Violet to destroy her medical records before her opponent in the congressional race can get hold of them. Harshness!

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The continued dramatic shenanigans between Sam and Naomi over who will run the office hit their inevitable denouement this week. The office stages a leadership intervention that fails (despite the cupcake feng shui) and Sam and Naomi call for a vote. Addison ends up with a whole lot more than she expected after she makes an impassioned plea for unity and hope. Wait, was that her or Barack Obama? I always confuse them.

A mysterious woman from Pete's apparently mystery past shows up to confound the doctors, smoke in bed, germ up Pete's office furniture, and get a tick removed. She causes almost as much inter-office speculation and moralizing as Addison's Client of the Week who wants to be re-virginized for her marriage to a traditional Afghani.

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Earlier this week I had the chance to chat with the fabulous Kate Walsh of Private Practice to get y'all some scoop on Addison Montgomery, the practice and, of course, Grey's Anatomy.

Let's get to it!

How cringe-worthy was the message Addison left Officer Kevin last week?

[Laughing]. That's a Swingers message! The quintessential worst message in the world... I think everybody at some point or other has made the impulsive--it's always at a point of heightened emotional state, late at night or something--and calling and being like, 'Oh no! Wrong person!' I think everyone's been there, right? You need someone to talk to so badly and then of course, well, that's classic. And you realize either during or after.

How has Addison grown since Grey's Anatomy?

I think that first season, part of it was the show finding itself, and Addison finding herself. All of a sudden she makes this big move. I can personally identify with that. Like, oh, I'm going to make a big change, and then you have to live with the consequences of the change, and I love that she's so courageous and perseveres even when she makes mistakes, she picks herself up and keeps going. So last year when you first saw her, she was sort of like a cat without a whisker, kind of off-balance. Sort of like a pendulum going that way a little bit and going this way a little bit... Then this season she comes back and has a little more of that strength, and that sort of alpha energy she started with on Grey's. And there's that whole dichotomy... like of that phone call versus her strength professionally within the practice.

It makes Addison more real.

It's been fabulous. If you look back to where she first came in all in black, saying she's a woman who slept with her husband's best friend, to the underbelly of the Addison reveal. She starts out a little reptilian and as we get to know her more and more, she becomes more humanized.

Do you ever second-guess your decision to leave Grey's, and does Addison continue to second-guess leaving Seattle Grace?

I think she probably does. Every time you make a big move, you can't help but look back. But personally, I think also she's a very pragmatic character when it comes down to it, and she's made this decision and she's strong and that's part of what makes her interesting. She's pretty willful and focused and driven and even when she has her moments of crazy phone calls, and who knows what she thinks about when she's standing on her balcony looking out at the Pacific Ocean.

I still watch Grey's Anatomy. I have it TiVo'd. I love it. It's sort of like watching a home movie or visiting my friends back home. So I always miss them and there's sort of a little melancholy there... I love the structure of the hospital there and I think the confines of Seattle Grace is so interesting to see everybody bouncing around, and all the chaos that ensues, so I still thoroughly enjoy it. But that being said, I love the new show and I feel like it's really found its own voice this season. It feels like we landed, sort of like a good bottle of wine that's opened up and breathed and it's tasting good!

If Derek and Meredith ever walk down the aisle, will Addison make an appearance at the wedding?

Geez, I don't know, that'd be fun! [Laughing] I would hope so, but who knows? I don't know. It'd definitely be dramatic and exciting and fun. Maybe I can walk Derek down the aisle.

Last week on Private Practice, Addison and Naomi got in a huge fight about questionable medical ethics. Violet realized her back-up boyfriend Cooper was cheating on her. And the practice was in financial jeopardy, forcing Sam to take over the practice, and Naomi is pee-issed. There was something else, too. What was it? Oh, right. Dell quit because everyone forgot about him.

Addison calls Naomi in a split screen. Naomi hangs up on her. Addison calls Sam in a split screen. He hangs up on Addison and calls Naomi in another split screen. Sam gets hung up on by Naomi in yet another split screen shot. Sam calls Addison in a split screen shot. And just when I am about to toss my cookies because of the rapid-paced scene cutting, there is a gross and gratuitous early morning sex scene between what's-his-name and what's-her-name. Cooper and Charlotte. Despite laying new ground rules last week, Charlotte still won't eat lunch in public with him. He gets up to leave for "Violet's Secret Meeting." They are playing "Shake it Up" by The Cars as they cut from scene to scene. Yay for The Cars! Boo for seizure inducing editing.

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The guys are on the beach trying to make Maya’s science project (a volcano) erupt. Cooper and Pete question Sam about Naomi and he denies it. They’re relieved; Oceanside does not need any more office relationship drama. Speaking of which, Cooper runs off for another tryst with Charlotte, and a friendly argument over who gets to be good cop or bad cop. She wins for now. She’s got a parenting class to find a teacher for, and Cooper steals an important packet of information out of her bag.

The girls stroll in to work and Addison tries to convince Naomi to just talk to Sam. Violet is still out of the loop. Addison goes off to smooth things over with Pete and they decide to try the “friend” thing. Boo. The office is out of whack. Trash hasn’t been taken out, the temperature isn’t right, and it’s all because Dell is not in yet. He comes in and asks Sam to help him with something: He wants him to take a look at his “pa-pa.” Thankfully it’s his grandfather and not what Sam thinks. Dell thinks his grandfather Wendell and his friend Nate are being abused at their nursing home.

It’s an odd day at Oceanside. Staff members trickle in wearing disguises (think hats and glasses) and hope that they don’t run into one another following a night of awkward situations. The women are in Naomi’s office rehashing the evening, and Sam and the guys are all gathered in the break room. He says they should talk about the women, since the gals are clearly talking about them.

Both Addison and Violet are after Naomi for advice. Addison can’t believe she was stood up, and Violet is feeling rejected for her nakedness. Naomi almost spills on her late-night office tryst. None of them want to go to the break room for coffee, so Addison heads downstairs to buy some. She ends up in line behind Carl, who is definitely not as hot as Pete, but they hit it off. When she gets back upstairs she runs into Pete, and tells him that personally he’s been downgraded to acquaintance. She didn’t even give him a chance to explain.

Addison and Pete pick up where they left off last time, with a steamy make-out session on the countertop. She tells him she doesn’t want to be “just another notch in his acupuncture table,” but they agree to hook up after work anyway. They steal a few more moments until Dell busts them and says not to worry, this scenario will be “locked in the Dell vault.”

Elsewhere, Violet has a fit about bananas, which is just a cover for her not getting any man-action. A patient named Susan is scheduled to come in for her water birth, which Pete and Addison will be working together for. And can I just say: Tim Daly is h-o-t. It’s distracting. Sam gets a phone call from a patient to make a house visit, but the caller hangs up before he can get much information out of her. Cue the baby boom.

Naomi is at Addison’s getting ready for a date with a random guy who we never meet. The doorbell rings and Addison opens the door to find none other than Pete (not the date, naturally). He’s mildly drunk and very flirty, and he wants Addison to join him next door where he’s been playing poker with Cooper and Sam and drinking… wine? Maybe he just brought that bottle over as bait. Somehow I doubt that’s what they were having on a boy’s night.

She shuts him down, but he insists he could also come in and they could get to know each other outside the office. No go. She sends him off. Since when would the Addison Montgomery we know not take advantage of this. When did she turn into such a good girl?

Ah the elevator… enter Addison and Pete. Friendly banter. Whoa, who is this guy, and what has he done with Dr. Wilder? Clearly this can’t be real… thunk. Addison topples out of bed, midway through the awkwardly sexy scene. Well, if they’re not going to put these two together in real time, I guess a dream will do for now.

At the morning meeting Pete tells Addison she looks hot and the whole room falls silent. He means flushed. Moving on, there is a healthy round of applause for what is to be Dell’s first solo pap smear today. Hilarious.

Naomi and Violet corner Addison about her Pete fantasies and Violet starts confessing her Bill Clinton fantasy. They talk about scratching the itch, so to speak, and Addison says she doesn’t do that kind of thing—leaving the other two speechless. They try to convince her later that self-pleasure would help her to steer her clear of Pete. Sam overhears and of course he tells Pete, who proceeds to give Addison a hard time about it all day at work.

ABC has announced it's picking up an entire season of its new Grey's Anatomy spin-off, Private Practice.

The freshman drama is the most watched new show this season and it has everything to do with the adorable Kate Walsh. Oh and the sexual tension with Tim Daly does not hurt!

After this week’s episode I thought things are going to get hot and heavy between Addison and Dr. Wilder, but then I just read that former Gilmore Girl's pot stirrer, David Sutcliffe, AKA Lorelai's true love, Christopher has been cast to stir the pot over at Private Practice.

So much pot stirring, this guy's arms must get tired. I cannot wait for the drama to unfold. This show is really growing on me. Am I the only one?

And a little inside dish on David: he's dumb as rocks, but he's so much fun to look at!

Tonight was all about making connections and believing in miracles. While Sam promotes the book he wrote about the mind/body connection, Addison tries desperately to connect with her co-workers at Oceanside, and to believe she still has a chance at fertility.

In the morning meeting, Addison reminds everyone she has invited them over after work and no one has responded. That’s because everyone forgot, except good old Dell. In the hallway later, Violet asks Cooper if he’s going and tells him she’s at the age where she’s “done with new people.” Would it kill her to give Addison a chance? Plus, I’m pretty sure Violet needs all the “new people” she can get. After all, she seems to spend most episodes wandering around on the verge of a breakdown.

It’s pouring rain. Only Addison is not in Seattle anymore, she’s in LA, so she’s having a meltdown about the weather—but it’s not just the weather, it’s everything. She doesn’t think she fits in at Oceanside, and it seems her dream that everything would be different in LA is turning out to be more like a mirage. Naturally, Naomi sticks it to her and says it’s time she makes some friends and learns to play well with others. Namely, I hope this means she’ll be spending some time with Pete, but he’s got his own problems.

Pete is standing out in the rain with an umbrella in a cemetery talking to his dead wife Anna’s grave. This week is the anniversary of her death and Violet thinks it is good for him because he’s in a rut. We don’t know anything about Pete’s wife, but when he said, “you were a lousy wife and I hated you,” that pretty much summed things up I think.

Things picked up a bit this week in LA. Cooper, Pete and Violet head to Addison’s house (a surprise to her) because Cooper has arranged for a surprise for Sam (who he thinks is in a rut). He might be right. Sadly, our handsome doc is hanging out with his dog and doing Sudoku… that is until Ginger “the entertainer” arrives. As everyone watches from afar, and Sam gets a close-up of Ginger’s rashy backside, Naomi arrives at Addison’s and is none-too-pleased to hear the words “stripper” and “Sam” used together. Cue the jealous ex-wife.

Finally the new Kate Walsh spin-off from Shonda Rhimes is here. And, unlike that crazy pilot-within-another-show that aired on Grey’s Anatomy back in May, this time it’s strictly Addison Montgomery’s new digs at the Oceanside Wellness Group in LA. Well, save for the opening scene back at Seattle Grace, where Chief Webber demands to know why Addison’s resignation is on his desk. She tells him that she got a job offer from her longtime friend Naomi (Audra McDonald), and since she didn’t get promoted to Chief last spring, this is the perfect way for her to make a big change in her life — which is just what she needs.

If you missed the pilot, we got a brief recap of her new cohorts. There are her best friends from medical school: Naomi, a fertility specialist, and her ex-husband, Sam, an internist. Add in Cooper the pediatrician, Violet the psychiatrist and Pete, an alternative medicine specialist. Oh yes, and Dell (Chris Lowell), the young receptionist/surfer/aspiring midwife. Is it me, or did he seem way cuter before? Anyway, Chief swears Addison will be back in a month, but she is sticking with her decision. He asks her (among other things) if she plans to go dance around in her underwear, and she tells him no—actually, she’s going to dance around naked, and (fast forward to LA) that’s just what she does…

I officially love Private Practice star Kate Walsh even more than I did before, which is kind of hard to do, but she's done it. As she told the press two weeks ago, she married movie exec Alex Young on Saturday.

We'll get to the details in a sec, but first, I have to gush about her song choice. During the ceremony, a gospel choir sang Rascal Flatts' "Bless the Broken Road." Love. That. Song. For those of who aren't as big a country freak as me, check out the lyrics:

Every long lost dream lead me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you

Keep reading for the rest of Kate's wedding details -- including her famous guest list!

When I picked up the latest issue of TV Guide, there was a picture of Tim Daly from Private Practice on the cover. Probably due to my obsession with Rob Lowe, I automatically assumed it was the Brothers & Sisters star at first glance. Upon further inspection, I'm still convinced the two men have a similar look. My intern Jessica thinks I'm a bit crazy, so I'm putting the test to you: Do you think they look alike?

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Grey's Anatomy / Private Practice's Kate Walsh has announced her wedding date, and it's soon. Like two weeks away soon. She and her fiance Alex Young are getting married over Labor Day. Yes, this Labor Day -- a whole four months after they got engaged. According to People.com, plans for the wedding, which is said to take place at California's Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, include:

"...a rehearsal dinner on Friday, include a pre-wedding meal on Saturday and a sunset ceremony, then wrap up with a post-wedding brunch on Sunday, according to a source.

During the ceremony, the bride will wear a custom made Monique Lhuillier wedding dress, the source says. The Saturday reception will be held outdoors at the inn's Casa Elar, a Spanish-style estate, where the pool will be covered to accommodate the approximately 110 guests."

Kate's old costars Katherine Heigl and Sara Ramirez are said to be attending.

I'd be mad if I were them. My best friend got hitched over Labor Day weekend last summer, and it's really a pain in the booty because it takes away from your own vaca time. That probably makes me a bad friend, but it's true! That said, if Kate has any extra invites laying around, I'd be happy to attend!

...so sweet I think I might have to vomit. Just to make your Monday morning even more depressing, check out what the Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice star told People about her engagement to Alex Young.

"I know – I'm literally living the dream. But you know when you know. I was not expecting it, so it's kind of amazing."

While Walsh says she loves "everything" about her fiancé, a production co-president at 20th Century Fox, she admits she's partial to his looks. "He's pretty handsome," she said, adding with a giggle, "He's ridiculously handsome!"

New show. New fiance. No fair.

But I love her anyway!

Geesh, since when did Kate Walsh become the "It" girl? Ellen Pompeo must be pissed. Not only is she getting her own spinoff, but now she has just announced she's engaged! The lucky man? Her boyfriend Alex Young, who is production co-president at 20th Century Fox. Congrats!

What's up with all these stars getting uber-successful and then getting engaged? How lucky can some chicks be? America Ferrera, I'm talking about you... weigh in below!

As if there was ever really a doubt, Dr. Addison Montgomery is officially headed to Los Angelos. The Grey's Anatomy spin-off, still tentatively titled Private Practice was picked up by ABC. I'm actually really psyched about this. During the May 3 two-hour special, I was way more into the new storyline than the old Grey's drama. I'm done with the whining and love triangles going on in Seattle Grace and am ready for a new cast of characters to love and a new "McDreamy" to obsess over.

P.S. My love for Brothers & Sisters can continue because it, too, was picked up by the network. I swear, Rob Lowe was the best thing to happen to that show.

Does this Grey's news really come as a surprise to anyone?

ABC has announced that the two hour GA episode that will serve as the springboard episode for Kate Walsh's spin-off will air on May 3rd. But don't worry, the episode entitled, The Other Side Of Life, won't be solely focused on Addison's road trip to Southern California and her reunion with old med school pals.

In fact, Chrisitina will be trying to find a wedding dress with the help of both her and Burke's mom and Jane Doe will have emergency surgery when she takes a turn for the worse.

I kinda don't want this spin-off to get picked up because I love Addison at Seattle Grace so much! Although the show, tentatively titled Private Practice will also be starring Taye Diggs who is too hot for words, so watching him might ease my pain.

Taye Diggs told People.com that the cast of the new Addison-centric Grey's Anatomy Spinoff has "great chemistry."

According to Taye, the pilot episode has just finished filming in LA, but he won't reveal any plot secrets. He's the only one who isn't talking.

The spinoff tentatively title Private Practice revolves around Addison leaving Seattle Grace and heading to Southern California to work with her med school classmates who all have thriving practices there.

"ABC plans to test out the show with a "back-door pilot," an expanded two-hour episode of Grey's, Reuters reported in February. No air date for the episode has been set. "

In case you hadn't noticed Taye Diggs is hot and so is Addison. Everything I know about this spinoff is hot. Cannot. Wait.