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Monday, January 31, 2005

(2005) 'Gilmore Girls' is looking good

By
Of the Post-Dispatch
01/25/2005

LOS ANGELES

``Gilmore Girls'' are good. ``Jack & Bobby'' –not so much.

Riding on the Luke-Lorelai romance and Rory's ``girl gone wild'' college career, the WB's best series has rebounded from last season's creative slump to become the network's top-rated show with its core audience, women 18-34.

Tonight's 100th episode (7 p.m. on Channel 11) is the first after a long string of repeats intended to stretch the season as long as possible. Meanwhile, Lauren Graham and Scott Patterson have been answering a lot of questions about their on-screen love affair, four years in the making.

People ask Patterson ``if we're dating in real life, and I tell them we are.'' (They aren't.) Graham comforts fans worried that creator Amy Sherman-Palladino will put obstacles in the couple's path. (``They can't just be `you're pretty' –`you're prettier' all the time,'' Graham says.) Sherman-Palladino's take on the romance: ``As long as we find interesting ways for them to be who they are, I think we can keep it going for as long as we want.''

As for Rory (Alexis Bledel), expect more college escapades. ``A kid like Rory, when she (messes) up, it should be huge,'' Sherman-Palladino says.

As for Rory (Alexis Bledel), expect more college escapades. ``A kid like Rory, when she (messes) up, it should be huge,'' Sherman-Palladino says.

Despite flourishing movie careers for Graham and Bledel, ``Gilmore Girls'' will almost certainly return next season, WB bosses strongly suggest.

But the jury is very much out on ``Jack & Bobby,'' a favorite of viewers in St. Louis. ``We're determined to make the show work,'' WB Entertainment president David Janollari said in a Q&A session with the Television Critics Association. ``It's a giant favorite of the network's.''

Still, there's great concern that ``the audience that should be coming to it'' hasn't shown up, and a run of new episodes beginning this week will determine the drama's fate. ``It's going to run this entire season,'' Janollari said. ``I can't say that it's definitely coming back'' for fall.

When last seen, at a WB network 10th anniversary party populated largely by look-alike stars of ``One Tree Hill,'' ``Summerland'' and other teen dramas, Janollari was being quietly lobbied by ``Jack & Bobby'' headliner Christine Lahti. Couldn't hurt.

Critic Gail Pennington E-mail: gpennington@post-dispatch.com
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