"Gilmore Girls" Cast Reunion Panel at ATX 2015

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"Gilmore Girls" Reunion Scoop: ATX Fest Reteams Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel and Amy Sherman-Palladino
by Michael Ausiello
November 13, 2014


Where you lead, I will follow… all the way to Austin, Texas in June 2015.

Organizers of the ATX Television Festival announced on Thursday that a "Gilmore Girls" reunion panel featuring stars Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel, as well as series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, is set for the annual TV jamboree.

A specific date for the event is TBA, but it will fall somewhere within the festival dates of June 4-7.


For ticket/badge information, head on over to the ATX official website at
http://www.atxfestival.com/

http://tvline.com/2014/11/13/gilmore...festival-2015/

[mets82]

Too bad, they wont televise this. I'd really would watch it. Love the show and Amy Sherman-Palladino is a great writer. The episodes she wrote on the Gilmore Girls were very well thought out and very well written.

[JamesG]

"Gilmore Girls" Reunion at ATX TV Festival: 9 More Castmembers Joining Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel
by Michael Ausiello
March 27, 2015


Where Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel lead, their former "Gilmore Girls" co-stars follow.

Organizers of the ATX Television Festival confirm to TVLine exclusively that 9 additional castmembers will join Graham, Bledel and series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino on the show’s reunion panel at the annual TV jamboree, which takes place June 4-7 in Austin, TX.



Jared Padalecki (Dean)
Scott Patterson (Luke)
Kelly Bishop (Emily)
Keiko Agena (Lane)
Liza Weil (Paris)
Liz Torres (Miss Patty)
Sean Gunn (Kirk)
Yanic Truesdale (Michel)
John Cabrera (Brian)


The exact date of the event is TBD.

http://tvline.com/2015/03/27/gilmore...ott-patterson/

[JamesG]

"Gilmore Girls" Reunion Expands
by Rebecca Iannucci
April 22, 2015


Austin, Texas, is starting to look a lot like Stars Hollow, Conn.

EW.com reports that 4 more "Gilmore Girls" cast members have been added to the show’s reunion panel at this year’s ATX Television Festival.



Matt Czuchry (Logan Huntzberger)
Danny Strong (Doyle)
Todd Lowe (Zack)
Jackson Douglas (Jackson)



The ATX Festival runs June 4-7.

The "Gilmore Girls" panel will take place on the festival’s closing night.

http://tvline.com/2015/04/22/gilmore...-atx-festival/

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10 Reasons The ‘Gilmore Girls’ Reunion Needs Milo Ventimiglia

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Milo Ventimiglia to Attend "Gilmore Girls" Reunion at ATX Festival
by Kelly Connolly
6/2/15


Another resident of Stars Hollow is checking in to the ATX Festival’s "Gilmore Girls" reunion.

Milo Ventimiglia, who played Luke’s nephew — and Rory’s troubled boyfriend — Jess Mariano on the WB drama, will be joining the show’s reunion panel, EW has confirmed.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/02...n-atx-festival

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http://mashable.com/2015/06/05/atx-television-festival/

This year, the festival's fourth, "kind of exploded in the best way," says co-founder Emily Gipson, who attributes a big part of that interest to the Gilmore Girls reunion panel, scheduled for Saturday. Badge sales tripled when the Gilmore panel was announced.

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"Gilmore Girls" Reunion Tackles Luke & Lorelai's Future, Rory's Best Suitor, Those Four Words and So Much More
by Andy Swift
June 6, 2015


“There’s no way I’m going to top this experience, this cast, these leading ladies here. … And that’s OK. Some people get lucky and some people don't. And, God, I got so lucky.”

Those words, spoken with grateful exhaustion by "Gilmore Girls" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, closed the show’s reunion panel at the ATX Television Festival on Saturday night. What preceded those words was a 90-minute love fest between the cast, the packed theater of adoring fans and the woman responsible for bringing them all together.





It began with an oral history of the show’s beginnings, starting from the fateful trip to Connecticut that inspired the creation of Stars Hollow.

“We’re staying at an inn, maybe Lorelai works at an inn,” Palladino remembers thinking at the time. “I was desperate.”

She even wrote the pilot’s infamous kitchen scene on a piece of the inn’s stationary, which is now “in a box … somewhere you put boxes.”





The core four — Palladino, Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel and Kelly Bishop — also shared stories from the audition process, including how Palladino thought Bledel hated her, which was actually a quality she found endearing.

(“I love her! I love the one who hates me!” Palladino remembers thinking.) It turns out Bledel was merely sick, the result of a recent modeling shoot involving buckets of cold water being hurled at her. (We’ve all been there.)







The Final Season:

Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino might not have been involved in "Girlmore Girls" final season, but as ATX Television Festival goers learned Saturday, the baroness of banter bears no ill will.

“The last season was the last season, s–t happens. We left it in the hands of our writers, so it wasn’t like we got Saddam Hussein to come in. We had smart, strong writers who had been with us and trained with us. We felt like, ‘Well, if we can’t be there, at least it’s in the hands of people that we know will honor the spirit of what we set up.'”



She admitted that it’s “always a bummer when you don’t get to end it,” and that she “hoped maybe there would have been a call — ‘Hey, it’s the last episode. Do you want to come back?’ — and there wasn’t.”

“That’s the way it works in Hollywood; there are rules,” she conceded. “I just don’t like rules.” That said, she’s still on speaking terms with the entire cast, and as she pointed out, “When does that happen?”







Fighting for Melissa McCarthy:

Palladino revealed that she “had to fight” to get Melissa McCarthy cast as Sookie St. James.

“It wasn’t that people didn’t like her, but she was a different energy,” Palladino explained. “She was a different kind of chick. The part was just written for a woman — there was no body type, there was nothing specific about it. I was just like, ‘I need someone who’s funny and can really act.’ Just funny doesn’t get me anything, because I need her to be able to cry and be heartbroken and be in a relationship, so it was a tricky sell. It took a while.”







Remembering Edward Herrmann:

There wasn’t a dry eye in the house during the screening of a montage, produced by Palladino, of the late Gilmore patriarch Edward Herrmann’s most memorable scenes, introduced by these touching words from the show’s creator:

"It’s really crappy that he’s gone. We miss him so much, and I wanted to put a little something together. I think I speak for all of us: We were so surprised. I don’t think any of us knew he was sick.

Ed was the first one to say he was going to be at this panel, that’s how f–ed up it is that he’s gone. I just miss him, and I’m so grateful I got to work with him and hear him say my words and see him yell at me at dailies because I was making him do too many takes. … ‘We’re not puppets!’ He was not a puppet. He was just a drinkin’, lovin’, knew -everything-in-the-world man. He was our Mr. President."







Dean vs. Jess vs. Logan:

Following that well-deserved tearjerker, the core four were joined by the rest of Stars Hollow’s finest, which — naturally and immediately — triggered a discussion about the men in Rory’s life.

“I was always a Team Jess guy,” Jared Padalecki revealed. “I love Milo. I think he’s cool and sexy and handsome.” This prompted an answer from Milo Ventimiglia, who tried to play it cool. (“I was kind of rooting for everyone”) before conceding, “Logan was a dick.”

Though Matt Czuchry also admitted his character was a dick, he said each suitor had his merits — even if it didn’t seem that way to everyone. “They each brought something out in Rory that she needed at the time,” he said, before revealing he’s also Team Jess.







Luke and Lorelai Forever:

Fear not, ‘shippers: Luke and Lorelai are still an item to this very day, at least according to Graham.

“It didn’t, for me, end in a satisfying way,” she said of the couple’s story at the time of the series finale. “It didn’t really end. It didn’t resolve satisfactorily. … I think they’re together, 100 percent.”

In fact, when asked by a young fan whether or not she thinks Luke and Lorelai have since tied the knot, she replied, “I think they probably did.”



Scott Patterson, meanwhile, has given quite a bit more thought to his character’s current whereabouts.

“For me, there’s two scenarios,” he began when asked about the show’s “it” couple. “Luke either stayed in town … or he closed his diner down and moved to a lake 40 miles outside of town. He reopened Luke’s Diner there and it’s a bait and tackle shop. He sells camping gear, as well.”

Lauren Graham asked if Luke has a girlfriend to which he said that, “Lorelai would likely have Luke give her fly fishing lessons.”







Where Is Everyone Else?:

- Bledel said she believes Rory is still a “hard-working journalist.” (Naturally.)


- Bishop said she can’t imagine what her character’s life would be like without Richard in it.

“Emily’s a widow, so that’s a whole other world,” she acknowledged. “I don’t know where she is.”


- Czuchry said he only knows that trust-fund baby Logan “would not be working.”


- Padalecki seemed convinced that Dean “would have worked long and hard at Doose’s Market,” eventually turning it into Dean's Market.


- Ventimiglia said he’s sure Jess is “just being Jess, walking away when too many people show up.”


- “Lane is figuring out what kind of mom she wants to be,” Keiko Agena mused.

“She wants to be Lorelai, but I think in her heart, she’s a little Mrs. Kim. … I hope she’s still playing music with Hep Alien.”


- Liz Torres, bless her heart, rambled something mostly incoherent about how she always thought Ms. Patty would end up with Luke because “women fall in love with cold and withholding men,” before suggesting that her character is now the clueless mayor of Stars Hollow.


- Jackson Belleville said he strongly believes his character’s vasectomy “never took” and that he’s now “farming children.”


- Both Liza Weil and Danny Strong said they think Paris and Doyle are still together. After referring to the couple as “ride or die all the way,” Weil said she hopes they’re “supporting each other and taking over the f–ing world, man.”

Professionally speaking, Strong said Doyle is likely “a reporter working for a website, probably thinking everyone he was working for was an idiot.”







Gilmore Girls Movie?:

It wouldn’t have been a reunion without Palladino and the cast being asked if there was a reunion movie in the works.

Palladino told the packed crowd, “There's nothing in the works at the moment. Here’s the good thing: Nobody here hates each other. It would have to be the right everything — the right format, the right timing. It would have to be honored in a certain way. If it ever came around, I think we would all jump in and do it.”

She added, “If it ever happens, I promise we'll do it correctly.”







Four Final Words:

As for the series’ elusive final four words — the ones Palladino had planned since the very beginning, but obviously was never able to make manifest — she said she’s not ready to reveal them.

Not yet, anyway. (“At this point, I’m just being a complete a–hole.”) She also said that she sees Michael Ausiello being all in her face on her death bed trying to get her to reveal them.

http://tvline.com/2015/06/06/gilmore...-best-moments/

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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...-update-800639

At the ATX Television Festival event, creator Amy Sherman-Palladino said of doing a movie: "I'm sorry, there's nothing in the works at the moment. But here's the good thing: nobody here hates each other; that's a very important step. It would have to be the right everything — right format, timing, budget — it would have to be honored in a certain way. If it ever came around, I think we would all jump in and do it." PLUS: Edward Herrmann was honored with an empty chair, check out Gilmore Girls reunion photos and more photos, Sherman-Palladino declined to share the four words she planned to end the series with, Lauren Graham wrote "I missed you" in a selfie with Alexis Bledel, Sherman-Palladino says Gilmore Girls would never be made today, Gilmore Girls band Hep Alien reunites, Graham thinks Luke & Lorelai are probably now married, and Sherman-Palladino had to fight to cast Melissa McCarthy.

[mets82]

I wish I could have been there. Seems like it was a lot of fun. I think The Gilmore Girls is probably one of the best, funniest and smartest shows to come down the pike in years. I mean the writing was very good and some of there town's events made for some good subplots. Even the town events were good but odd because I had never heard of a:

Knit a thon
Hay Bale Maze
Buying a person's basket

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http://www.ew.com/article/2015/06/08...-reunion-panel

EW has the full panel from Saturday's ATX TV Festival. PLUS: Why the Gilmore Girls reunion was amazing yet depressing.

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I read that Edward Herman was the first to sign up for this reunion way back when they were planning it. How sad that he's gone now. I've never really watched "Gilmore Girls' but I want to when I get some other shows out of the way.

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https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/608743928498663424

Fresh off their Austin reunion, the Gilmore cast will appear on Today on Thursday morning.