The Tonight Show with Jay Leno – June 16
Category: Interview
Due to weather and other technical problems we were unable to get Lauren on The Today Show in HD but we do still have caps and a clip 
Interviews: The Today Show, April 2010
Hi guys! My name is Becca and I am going to be helping out here from now on Thanks to Chanel for letting me come on board. You may know me from my other sites Amanda Seyfried Fan or Stunning Sophia Bush. Here’s a interview with E! Online.
How good is Parenthood? So good that for the first time in a “very long time,” Lauren Graham is actually able to watch herself on the screen.
True story! I just sat down with Lauren on the set of Parenthood, which airs tonight, and she opened up about her “deep, deep problems” watching herself, and her love life on and off the show…
“This is the first time I’ve even watched anything in a very long time,” Lauren tells me of her new NBC series helmed by Friday Night Lights boss Jason Katims. “We really work these scenes in this loose way and it’s just so interesting to see it put together.” She adds with a laugh, “I’m proud of it and I think it’s important to enjoy as much as I can, whilst watching like this [covers face] ‘Ah! Why I’d just do that?! Why is my hair like that?!’ ”
You longtime Graham fans already know this, but the woman formerly known as Lorelai Gilmore (we miss ye, Gilmore Girls) is just as witty and charming and self-deprecating in real life as we’ve seen onscreen. (Dammit, just when we thought we couldn’t love her any more!)
And Lauren says she’s totally digging the role of Sara Braverman, a struggling mother of two, with whom she can definitely connect.
Lauren says of her Parenthood alter ego: “She’s someone who wears their heart and vulnerability on their sleeve a little bit. I can’t do that because I’m in a job that means I have to seem like I have confidence so I can get through the day…I so relate to feeling frustrated and like you don’t know anything. No matter how old you get, you’re still learning.”
And get ready for a pretty freaking adorable new man in Sara’s (Lauren’s) life: Jason Ritter! He comes on Parenthood next week to play Lauren’s new love interest. “He’s my daughter’s teacher, and that’s how we get into an inappropriate love relationship. He’s on for four or five episodes. He’s great. I only hope that his pilot doesn’t get picked up so we can have him back,” she says devilishly. “Which is very selfless I think, to wish ill for other people for your own needs!”
No word yet as to whether Parenthood will live on for a second season, and Graham admits: “You’re always thinking about it. We’re watching the ratings, which have been good. It’s a different world now in terms of predicting that stuff than it was 10 years ago when we launched Gilmore Girls. We’re very thankful to be in a position to get viewers and have had the support that we’ve had. You always care.”
If you too care and want to see Parenthood stick around, tune in tonight at 10 p.m. for the latest episode!
Check out my video interview of Lauren above to find out which kind of man she’d go for in real life (Hint: If you’ve got an Irish name, line up!), plus much more.
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Added captures of Lauren at Ellen DeGeneres. Will have the clip up shortly.
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Talk Shows & Interviews > Talk Shows > 2010 > The Ellen DeGeneres Show, March 2010
Ron Howard’s Parenthood has been with us in popular culture since the film’s remarkable debut in 1989. Ever since, Howard and his creative team have sought ways to bring the story of the Braverman family and their all-too familiar trials and tribulations — the entity of Parenthood — to television.
Lauren Graham in Parenthood
Howard initially cast Maura Tierney in the role of Sarah Braverman, but when the actress had to drop out to attack her breast cancer, a familiar TV mom stepped in — Gilmore Girls star Lauren Graham.
The production that Howard had dreamt about for the small screen had taken decades to come to television and now their lead actress had to exit to attend to a life-altering health diagnosis (She has since, according to show’s producers, been “doing well.”)
Howard and Graham sat down to discuss in the ins and outs of Parenthood and the astounding NBC Tuesdays at 10 pm hour-long drama cast that includes Erika Christensen, Mr Incredible himself, Craig T Nelson, When in Rome’s Dax Shepard and Joy Bryant.
First of all don’t miss Parenthood tonight. Its finally here:)
Second some of the cap somehow got doubled up on the same cap. Not sure if you understand what I mean here but you’ll know when you’ll look at the caps lol. I’m sorry about that I have tried to cap the interview twice but always the same thing. they are viewable but I just think its weird and I don’t understand why its doing that…oh well its better than nothing I guess. I’m currently working on the clip will have it up shortly.
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Talk Shows > 2010 > The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, march 2010
It was once a feature film and then a television series that was quickly canceled but a decade and a half later inducted into the “Brilliant but Canceled” series. Now NBC is giving it a go once again. Brought to millions of televisions across the country (or so the network hopes), Parenthood features an all-star cast of television veterans who are playing one big, happy, colorful and somewhat dysfunctional family.
Executive Producer Ron Howard, who has been involved in all incarnations of the project, admits that there is a lot of room for comedy in this “new” version of Parenthood. “There are a lot of things about parenthood that might not feel funny in the moment, but if you can personally look back and find the humor, and you can also see how ridiculous other people’s lives seem. You might not tell them to their face, but you can see it!” And that’s pretty much Parenthood in a nutshell.
And in order to get the most out of the more subtle comedy, the show has added Lauren Graham to the cast and the family. Once again she finds herself playing the too-young-mother of precocious teenagers at the center of the family and the show. Her character this time around, though, is a financially strapped single mother who is packing up her Fresno apartment and uprooting her two inconvenienced kids to make a big move back home. It is a role that she stepped into when Maura Tierney had to bow out of the project due to health reasons. Considering Graham seemed to semi-retire from television, spending the last few years working on independent films and developing ideas for a show of her own, we couldn’t help but ask what drew her out of the hiatus to sign onto this project– and this character– instead.
“The decision was kind of just a very instinctual one,” Graham starts on a conference call about her new show. “I have been reading scripts for two and half years or three years or whatever it is since Gilmore Girls ended, and there just wasn’t anything I connected to, and that’s including things that I was developing…
