'Anatomy' fight still on the card

0 Comments | USA TODAY, January, 2007 | by William Keck

LOS ANGELES -- "It's not an easy week to be a producer." That understatement came on stage from Grey's Anatomy's Shonda Rhimes, accepting the award for best TV drama at Saturday's Producers Guild of America Awards. Rhimes skipped the red carpet and declined to pose with her award in the photo room, and when she was approached at her table for a comment on Grey's star Isaiah Washington's future, she said only, "I'm just here supporting my fellow producers on the show." Washington has been under fire for using a homophobic slur to refer to co-star T.R.

Knight during an on-set dust-up in October and again after the Golden Globes last week, with some calling for him to be fired. On Thursday, he was scolded in a statement from ABC, and he later issued an apology. Anatomy's...