Have you ever found yourself bumped out of the trance once reliably induced by a claustrophobic, emotionally fraught exchange between Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey in one of Seattle Grace's conversation-enabling elevators by the thought, "This contrived sexual tension is nice, but I really wish I knew what McDreamy's ex-wife was up to right now"? If you're the one, please immediately wrap your head in tinfoil, scrawl the word STOP on a nearby wall in your own feces, and smash your TV's screen with the commemorative stainless steel vibrator from your Sex and the City: The Complete Series box set, as ABC's Steven McPherson is clearly burgling your thoughts: Today's WSJ reports that the network is planning a two-hour Grey's Anatomy special that will serve as a back-door pilot for a potential spinoff centered around Dr. Addison Montgomery-Shepherd, the show's "sexy neonatal-surgeon" character. As yet, there's no plot or title (let's just slap Dr. Adddison: Baby Saver on the project and be done with it), but these are minor concerns when there's a "white-hot" property to be exploited before the public tires of distressingly skinny doctors in labcoats fucking in unoccupied hospital rooms, then spending the next five episodes whining about the experience.

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