Ausiello rocks. He’s bee live tweeting the CW upfronts today, and has delivered us some Gilmore Girls movie gems. Ausiello says:

Just cornered Peter Roth head of Warner Bros. TV and asked him about a Gilmore movie! He said he likes the idea of a Gilmore FEATURE film as opposed to TV movie

So, is there still hope for a Gilmore Girls movie? Of course! If network execs (Peter Roth is the chief executive of Warner Brothers Television) get behind the idea, magic could happen!

Though sadly CW show Privileged (which had Gilmore Girls writer Rita Mimoun) was not renewed for Fall, Ausiello is comparing new pilot Parental Guidance Advised to Gilmore Girls, saying “it’s illegitimate Gilmore Girls“. I don’t know anything about this show yet to figure out what that means
But Gilmore Girls Movie News!!!!

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Lauren Graham made a special appearance today on the Rachael Ray show. Lauren was announced as “the coolest mom on earth” with some Gilmore Girls clips set up to introduce her appearance.

Lauren admits seeing the clip kind of “freaked her out” since it was from such a long time ago (for her). She admits that the 7 years of production kind of blend together for her now. Rachael then asks if Lauren is “stuck in Lorelai”, in terms of how people see her. Lauren responds:

“I think I’ve realized I’m not, because, like anything, it’s now been 2 years since the last episode, so I’ve gotten a chance to do some other things. But, I realize that because of reruns, and just how television works now, that it’s going to be on forever. And so, for the rest of my life, people will be asking me when the Gilmore Girls movie is. And I’ll have to keep saying ‘I don’t know.’”

Lauren mentions how, for her growing up, her Gilmore Girls was Laverne & Shirley. They continue talking about Gilmore Girls (this is nice!) and how people relate to her as if she were Lorelai, with people always telling her their similarities to the Gilmore Girls characters. Lauren says it’s sweet. Read more

Lauren Graham paid a visit to the new Late Night with Jimmy Falon show on NBC last night. Just like with her outfit earlier in the week for The View, Lauren looked amazing!

Lauren Graham, Jimmy Fallon — NBC Photo: Meghan Sinclair

Lauren was there to promote her role on Guys and Dolls, talking at first about getting used to living in New York again after getting used to LA life.

Jimmy brings up how Gilmore Girls is such a cultural phenomenon, with Lauren responding:

“You know, for me, it’s over. Because it’s over. But it lives on. And so, like, I come to New York and I’m doing a musical, I’m wearing a blonde wig and I have a New York accent, you know I’m doing this thing that’s written in the ’50s and still, like, I walk out of the stage door at night and people are like ‘When’s the ‘Gilmore Girls’ movie??’ and I’m like, ‘OMG are you kidding me?’”

Lauren Graham says that Sex and the City changed things and it’s almost like you’re letting people down if you don’t make a movie.

Lauren talks about working on Guys and Dolls and her awe at Kelly Clarkson wanting to come backstage to meet her. Lauren shares that she loves American Idol, with Jimmy accidentally telling Lauren a spoiler, since she hadn’t caught up with all the episodes.

Ew! Apparently Lauren Graham paid a visit to Celine Dion’s vocal coach, since Broadway is taxing on the vocal chords. Jimmy shares a photo taken of Lauren Graham’s vocal chords, from a scope put in her mouth. As a joke, Jimmy and Lauren decide to ask and answer a question while singing. It’s cute. Lauren also shares her New York accent for the Guys and Dolls role of Miss Adelaide.

Lauren Graham’s Guys and Dolls on Broadway opens this Sunday!! I can’t wait to see the premiere photos!

In addition to the interviews I posted earlier this week, Lauren Graham has been getting more ink for her first Broadway show. In her latest interview, Lauren talks about having to get over her insecurity for being rather ‘green’ on Broadway, compared to cast members with oodles of Broadway theatrical experience. She’s often nervous if they change part of the act after she’s rehearsed it, but she reminds herself that it’ll be fine.

The choreographer talked about the production and the two striptease numbers that Lauren Graham’s burlesque-performing character, Adelaide, does. They says that it made sense for Lauren to get the skimpy costumes because she has a “spectacular body.” Go Lauren! Co-star Oliver Platt describes Lauren as “original and appealing” as Adelaide, someone who’s a comedian, a great singer, and can be both tough and vulnerable.

Lauren Graham makes one quick reference to Gilmore Girls, when talking about her new ABC comedy, Let it Go. Lauren describes her new show as having a “sharper edge” than the family-friendly Gilmore Girls, which still looms large in her career. Lauren joked that people are probably going to ask her about a Gilmore Girls movie for the “rest of my life.” Of course we are!

You can buy tickets here. If you go to the production, leave a comment or email me to tell me what you think - and if you’re lucky enough to get a photo of and/or with Lauren, do let me know so I can share it!

Photo Credit: GuysAndDollsBroadway.com

TV Squad put together a list of the Top 10 Shows that should come back as a TV movie. The list puts Gilmore Girls in at the #2 spot. With series such as Sex and the City, and even now Veronica Mars, doing very well in the tv-to-movie transition, we all have hope that our favorite series could return at some point.

1. Pushing Daisies
2. Gilmore Girls
3. The West Wing
4. The Sopranos
5. Friends
6. Party of Five
7. Northern Exposure
8. Seinfeld
9. thirtysomething
10. St. Elsewhere

Unlike some shows where you just want to relive the love of the series, with Gilmore Girls, it feels unfinished. It was not wrapped up the way creator Amy Sherman-Palladino wanted it to. As such, I’m sure we’ll all keep waiting for the day when the Gilmore Girls movie is made into a reality! It make take a few years, but we can wait
Aside from Gilmore Girls, are there other shows you’d like to see made into movies?

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Ausiello, who has forever been a strong supporter of Gilmore Girls and of Lauren Graham (Lorelai Gilmore), sat down with the star for an interview about her new role on the Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls. And also about the possibility for a future for Gilmore Girls, and yes, there’s hope!!

Lauren Graham has lead role of Miss Adelaide, a ’30s nightclub singer, in the musical comedy Guys and Dolls, opening March 1 at the Nederlander Theatre with previews starting February 4th (tickets are available here). Lauren Graham says she is very excited about being on Broadway, although she didn’t purposefully try to end up there. When asked about her singing, Ausiello makes reference to Lorelai Gilmore’s drunk episode, and Lauren’s response was already shared here. She continues in talking about her training as a singer, with experience in musicals early on in her career.

“This is something I’m enjoying doing. I really connect with this character. I really like her. I feel comfortable in this medium. I feel happy to be here. It’s been a challenge, but I’m really enjoying it.”

Lauren talks about the physical challenges of the new role, the burlesque aspect and the strip act she has to do! She talks about working with Oliver Platt, and about being prepared for signing all the Gilmore Girls merchandise after each show.

Moving on to Gilmore Girls, Mike brings up the possibility of a Gilmore Girls movie, which is something we were just talking about yesterday! Although Lauren jokes with Ausiello about how he is responsible for the rumors, she does admit to seriously considering it!

“It’s hard. I don’t know what we could give the fans that would satisfy them. It’s going to be like, “Grandmother Lorelai pulls into town… ” I don’t know what the story would be. But as with everything I do I my career, if something comes up that inspires me, then I’ll consider it. Plus, these are people who I love so much.”

Lauren Graham talks about the end of Gilmore Girls as being something like a “bad breakup”, something that didn’t end in the way “any of us would have liked”, which disappointed her as well. But that it’s hard to change what already happened.

“When the reruns come on now I think about the path it took, and it makes me sad. I wish we would have known it was the end when we shot the final episode, quite simply. But we can’t go back and change that. And I’m not sure a movie would help.”

Though she’s a little unsure if a movie would help, I’m glad Lauren Graham would consider it. With Amy Sherman-Palladino leading the script, I think that Gilmore Girls could get the ending it really deserves.

But then onto other fun stuff! Lauren Graham talks about the pilot comedy that she’s developing with ABC! Lauren describes the idea of the pilot (which you can read more about here) as something “so wrong it’s right,” something that really made her laugh (which is saying a lot!). Read more

According to TV Guide and the NY Post, Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas has been given the “go-ahead” to make a movie of the series, which starred Kristen Bell.

Veronica Mars lasted three years, two on UPN and then a third year on UPN’s successor, The CW, which was the network that aired the final two seasons of Gilmore Girls. Just like with Gilmore Girls fans, there was a general outcry when the series was cancelled and talk of a movie has surfaced several times since the series completed in May, 2007.

Rob Thomas, producer Joel Silver and star Kristen Bell all have shared enthusiasm for bringing back Veronica Mars in movie format. Thomas shared that he now has enough time to write the movie script and will be working on that in the next couple of months. The movie will need to be financed after that, but things look good.

So, what does this mean for Gilmore Girls? As with the admission for Veronica Mars that “Cult shows have translated well into the film arena,” a strong and continued presence of Gilmore Girls fans along with the push by show creators (come on Amy Sherman-Palladino!!) to pursue a film can make a difference.

So, is there hope? Hard to say yet. Amy Sherman-Palladino has shared a desire to wrap up the series her way, but that there is some “wound-licking” to be done. As Dan Palladino once said:

“I think you wait a couple years. Wait a couple years. Make sure there’s some interest.”

So, keep up that interest folks!

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In a very in-depth video interview that Milo Ventimiglia did with Collider.com, he took a brief moment (in video part 2) to talk about Gilmore Girls and how happy he was with the evolution of his character, Jess Mariano, through the series.

Milo Ventimiglia thinks the way his character line ended on Gilmore Girls was good. That Jess grew up and “turned into the kind of well-rounded guy a lot of us want to be.” Jess was no longer just a “punk” doing things selfishly, but he thought Jess had put a lot into his life and how to change himself.

Milo shares that when Jess returned to the show, to complete this storyline, that he thanked Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino, producers / writers for the series, for allowing him that. He thinks that Jess grew into a great guy, one able to replace anger in his life with stillness. But still with the Jess spunk.

I think what Milo says of Jess is very true - he turned out to be a great guy. Taking lead in his own life and doing what he loves. That takes a lot of courage. What do you think about how Jess changed?

If there was a Gilmore Girls reunion, would Milo reappear? That is a question Milo leaves hanging, saying “I don’t think there could be… I don’t know” to the prospect of the series continuing in some fashion.

Thanks to Steve for the tip! / Image: Newscom

I know many of us are dreaming of a day when Gilmore Girls will come back to complete itself with another season or movie, to tie up all the loose ends we perceived from the show. And to bring back a “world” that we love so much. Well, I wanted to highlight a couple of sites doing just that!

At http://www.freewebs.com/ggseason8 you’ll find an online attempt to bring a new season of Gilmore Girls to life!

All of the episodes are posted to an episode guide. Although I’m sure the scripts are not nearly as long as the real-life-scripts were, it’s fun to see the effort put together.

One other major effort was put forth on http://virtualgilmore.squarepins.org/episodes/index.php. This site has already FINISHED all of Season 8 and is now working on a Season 9!! What amazing work!! The first episode has so much spunk that I can’t wait to keep reading on!

Have you seen other sites working on a Gilmore Girls Season 8? If so, put the link in the comments!

Michael Auseillo thinks that last night’s successful re-introduction of 90210 makes the possibility of Gilmore Girls coming back more likely!

In the latest Ask Ausiello post, a reader asked about the possibility of a Gilmore Girls movie, and what the news was. His response:

Ausiello: If I had a serious gambling problem, which I don’t (wink, wink), I’d wager my entire Smurf collection that the likelihood of a Gilmore movie hinges on how well 90210 performed last night in the ratings. See where I’m going with this?

Where’s he’s going is this - 90210 kicked butt in ratings! The CW was the #1 network last night, in terms of ratings for the 18-49 demographic, and 90210 scored the highest ever telecast of a scripted series for the network. It had about 4.9 million viewers across the 2-hour premiere

So, if this isn’t a HUGE message to the CW that Gilmore Girls has the potential in the future for a movie or a return of some sort, I don’t know what is! I think that, unlike 90210, Gilmore Girls does rely on its original cast and storyline. But every little positive factor will go a long way for us!

To read a full recap of 90210, check here, or tune in September 4th at 8pm on the CW for a repeat of the premiere!

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