Deadline reports that Graham has signed a deal to adapt her recently released book Someday, Someday, Maybe into an hour-long television series.  The deal with Warner Bros TV is for her to write the script and take executive producer duties alongside Ellen DeGeneres and the show is intended to keep her novel’s witty tone.  Hmm, drama and comedy – sounds tantalisingly familiar.

The novel centres around Franny Banks, a young woman trying to make it as an actress in New York and begs the question: Who might play the lead?  Graham’s Parenthood co-star Mae Whitman has tweeted early dibs on the role!  For those who have read the book, how well do you think it will transfer from page to screen?

Source: Deadline

Part of the Gilmore Girls mythos is that the show’s creator Amy Sherman-Palladino has the last four words rattling around in her head.  Words that she would have written, had the studio kept her for the final series or asked her to write the final episode.

ASP: When the negotiations [for the final season] got so crazy we thought, Maybe we’re high? Maybe they don’t want it for the next couple of years. But by not having control of that, it shifts the focus of what my last words would have been. I was also holding on to it for a long time because I was thinking if we did do a movie, I would be able to use it there. I don’t think that’s ever going to happen so, I don’t know. Maybe I’ll eventually say the four words. I feel like now I’ll let people down because it’s been so built up. “Really? That’s what we waited all these twelve years for? Well, thanks so much.”

Quote from a terrific interview at Vulture.

Since that quote, we’ve had the Veronica Mars kickstarter and the subsequent outpouring of Gilmore love in response.  We’re also going through this weird Bunheads hiatus and I can’t see ASP twiddling her thumbs waiting for inspiration. Somewhere out there, I’m thinking ideas are knitting together. JK Rowling wrote the final chapter of the seventh Harry Potter book long before the first was even typed up. Gah, it’s such a tease! I can’t help thinking that if you know the destination, you’ve got some idea about the journey.

What do you think those final four words might be?  And who says them?  Get your thinking hats on and browse these last lines of Gilmores past for inspiration:

Series 5:

Lorelai: Luke will you marry me?
Luke: … What?

s05e22 A House Is Not A Home

Series 4:

Rory: I hate you for ruining this for me!
[Rory runs out of the house and calls Dean’s mobile phone. His wife answers.]
Lindsay: Hello? Hello? Hello?

s04e22 Raincoats And Recipes

Series 2: Lorelai and Rory at Sookie and Jackson’s wedding.  Both have been knocked askew, Rory from kissing Jess and Lorelai from Christopher’s news that Sherry is pregnant and his immediate departure.

Rory: I think I’m going to Washington.
Lorelai: Oh… Okay.

s02e22 I Can’t Get Started

Series 3: Rory’s graduated from Chilton and they’re about to leave the building for the last time.

Lorelai: It’s not so scary any more.
Rory: No. No, it’s not.

S03e22 Those Are Strings, Pinocchio

My guess?

Lorelai (to Luke): It’s never too late.

or maybe

Kirk: Help? Help somebody please?

Written and directed by Geoffrey Fletcher (Academy Award winning screenwriter for Precious) comes:

“a mesmerizing hybrid of New York City crime fable and existential coming-of-age drama. In VIOLET & DAISY teenage kicks match wits with adult-world turmoil, placing three wounded souls into a line of fire none expected – themselves.”

http://violetanddaisyfilm.com/

Check out the trailer here.

I couldn’t stop wondering how old Alexis is supposed to be (the pat-a-cake scene made me cringe) and her grip on those guns looks a little precarious but the movie looks like fun.  Made in 2011, it’s encouraging that it has a theatrical release.

Will you be seeing it?  If you’ve already seen it, I’d love to know what you thought.

Our little Rory’s all growed up!

I was thinking there should be a secret Gilmore Girls handshake or something.  Something Gilmore Geeks could share in public like a knowing wink to signal kinship – and then the answer was so obvious, I was already doing it – and maybe you are too.

If you’re anything like me (heaven forbid), at some point you’ve said to yourself ‘this is just like in Gilmore Girls when…’ or ‘that is so Kirk’ or ‘my God you’re just like Emily’ and sometimes you say it out loud and sometimes, some of those wonderful wonderful words just come out.

For example, I was in a friend’s house and picked up a kitchen knife and said “it would do a foot”.  I swear if someone had picked up the reference I’d have had triplets.

Lorelai: [Pulling a big knife out of Luke's duffel bag] Oh – my God.
Luke: It’s a bowie knife to cut fish, cut tree limbs…
Lorelai: Amputate a leg?
Luke: Not a leg. It could do a foot.
(s06e15 A Vineyard Valentine)

Later on, when Lorelai finds Rory preparing food in the kitchen…

Lorelai: Hmm. What’s this?
Rory: It’s a garlic press.
Lorelai: [Picks up a kitchen knife] This would do a foot.
Rory: Step away from the knife.

I was in an airport when somebody called out “Marco” and I couldn’t not answer “Polo”.  I have the same knee-jerk reaction with “Toolbox” and “Dirty”.

Luke: By the way, you do tell people that you’re the one that named my toolbox, right?
Lorelai: Toolbox, dirty.
s02e07 Like Mother, Like Daughter

I’ve said “don’t add stuff from your to-do list to my to-do list” (s04e20 Luke Can See Her Face).  I’ve called people “Ace” in the same affectionate / patronising way Logan addresses Rory (s05e06, Norman Mailer, I’m Pregnant).  I once used the word ‘Whiffenpoofs” in context (s04e09 Ted Koppel’s Big Night Out).

Please, I want to know it’s not just me.  Has anything from the show entered your vernacular?  Are their voices in your head; are their words in your blood?  In short, do you speak Gilmore?  Even better, have you ever picked up a reference dropped by someone else?

The season will include a full season with 22 episodes and I’m very happy about this.
I hope season five offers us something special. Which I really think it’s going to do then Parenthood never usually disappoint me.
What do you hope that the season will offer?

Sarah’s love life in season five?

She asked who she thinks Sarah should end up with, Graham laughed and said, “Well, we don’t have either of them for next season, so I might have to go back to Billy Baldwin.”

So it seems like Ray Romano and Jason Ritter will not take part in Season 5.
Will Sarah get a new love interest? Possibly? Yes, probably. What do you think?

If you had to choose, would you pick coffee or Gilmore Girls?  For me, Gilmore Girls is like chicken soup, it nourishes the soul and comforts and more.  I’d give up chicken soup over Gilmore Girls, if I could still have chicken.  I might even give up chicken if they’d Extra Crispy Kentucky Fry something else.

Lorelai: Oh, I can’t stop drinking the coffee. I stop drinking coffee, I stop doing the standing and walking and the words putting-into-sentence doing.
Luke: I’ll make you some coffee.
(s04e20 Luke Can See Her Face)

From the very first scene in the pilot episode, Lorelai’s coffee habit is as ever-present as her mother’s disappointment:

Lorelai: Please, Luke. Please, please, please.
Luke: How many cups have you had this morning?
Lorelai: None.
Luke: Plus?
Lorelai: Five but yours is better.
Luke: You have a problem.
Lorelai: Yes I do.
Luke [filling her mug]: Junkie.
Lorelai: Angel. You’ve got wings, baby.

And is that her own mug she’s brought to the coffee shop?  Make of that what you will, but this woman loves coffee.  For heaven’s sake, she dreams about coffee alongside being in love and pregnant with twins (s03e01 Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days…) and she’s passed her addiction onto her daughter…

When Rory visits a psychologist after a boat-related misdemeanour, her emotional breakdown comes when thinking about her boyfriend – and that pesky coffee bean.

Rory: I… I don’t think I can take running into him every day in the halls and the paper and the coffee cart. Oh my God. I’m gonna have to quit drinking coffee – and I love coffee! [Sobbing and burying her face in a fistful of tissues]  I really love coffee.

Part of Gilmore folklore of course is that Alexis Bledel (Rory Gilmore) was not keen on coffee and drank cola instead.

The bean-focussed article at Sprudge wryly notes that:

Lorelai takes Luke’s coffee black while she adds cream to her work coffee and her refrigerated, pre-ground home coffee: a sure sign they are destined to break up and get back together weekly for the rest of their lives.

I have a little stove-top Bialetti percolator and I savour the ritual of it, screwing the thing together, waiting for the gurgling, the aroma filling the kitchen.  But I’d have Gilmore Girls over coffee and most food groups, any day of the week.

Finally, it wouldn’t be a coffee article without Lorelai’s immortal words:

Server at Weston’s: Here we go. Three coffees.
Lorelai: Oh, no, I’m sorry. I only ordered one.
Server: You said “Coffee, coffee, coffee”.
Lorelai: Haha no see I said “coffee-coffee-coffee”.
Server: Right.
Lorelai: As in I really need coffee-coffee-coffee. You know.
Server: No.
Lorelai: Coffee-coffee-coffee is a saying, like an exaggeration. It’s a funny, desperate cry for caffeine. It’s just my thing. ‘Cos everybody knows I drink a lot of coffee, so the day can’t start until I’ve had my jolt. It’s a bit. My bit.  It’s not a particularly funny bit unless you know me, then… You know what, three coffees would be great. What do I owe you?
(s05e15 Jews and Chinese Food)

Sometimes there’s nothing better than a slice of cheesecake and a cup of joe.  Anyone out there love coffee as much as Lorelai? 

Based on the cult BBC show Gavin and Stacey, the trailer looks promising and gives a good glimpse of Alexis with a new ‘do, starring as the sweet Stacey who travels from Pennsylvania to New York for a first in-person date with down-to-earth co-worker Gavin.

The supporting cast of friends and family is gagging with comedic talent and the series has solid roots.  Could be good; could be great.  What do you think?

Click for YouTube trailer: Us and Them

Pic ℅ David Johnson / Fox