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	CTV.ca \| Julia Louis-Dreyfus breaks the 'Seinfield Curse'
		But Ellie boasts its own atomized variation, seizing willy-nilly a 22-minute chunk of Ellie's life (getting ready for her nightclub gig; singing at her best friend's wedding) and presenting this interlude unabridged.
		Ellie's world also includes her married-with-child younger sister (Lauren Bowles), her married boyfriend who's also the guitarist in her band (Darren Boyd), and ex-beau Edgar (Steve Carell), a voice-over actor whose loutish smarm is matched only by his flights of twisted logic.
		Ellie finally arrives at the club, thank goodness (it's just a block from home), and begins her first number, So Nice, which is frozen in mid-phrase 74 seconds later as the countdown hits 00:00.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1024895807269_20305007 (520 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: TV Eye
		Watching Ellie is a slice-of-life sitcom about L.A. chanteuse Ellie Riggs (Louis-Dreyfus) and her small universe of friends.
		In fact, the men in Watching Ellie need her much more than she needs them, including her lover, whose wife treats him like a nuisance when she can be bothered to deal with him at all.
		Watching Ellie is a deceptively stylish 22-minute meditation on being a single woman.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-04-12/screens_tveye.html (997 words)

	Watching Ellie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		After week 1 they said "20,000 viewers tuned in to Watch Ellie." After week two, they said "In the last two weeks, 28,000 viewers tuned in to Watch Ellie." I say week 4 or 5, the only folks watching Ellie will be Julia, her husband, and her sister.
		Watching Ellie is a treat, because it's like watching a mini woody Allen film.
		The ex-boyfriend that still pines for Ellie was bad enough, but the worst was the married, needy sister who apparently has no life of her own, who has to call Ellie at the worst times over something stupid, has this need to borrow Ellie's clothes.
	www.jumptheshark.com /w/watchingellie.htm (5894 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! - Ellie bears watching
		Without a laugh track and filmed with a single camera, Watching Ellie feels like it belongs on HBO, closer in tone and content (co-star Don Lake bares his buttocks; Ellie calls her ex-boyfriend an expletive that cannot be repeated here) to Sex and the City than Friends.
		Among them is Lake (Best In Show) as Ellie's next-door neighbour, Peter Stormare (Chocolat) as her Kramer-esque building maintenance man, Darren Boyd (Smack The Pony) as the married guitarist she sleeps with, and Louis-Dreyfus' real-life sister Lauren Bowles as Ellie's sibling.
		Watching Ellie is not the painful exercise in self-adulation it might have been.
	jam.canoe.ca /Television/TV_Shows/W/Watching_Ellie/2002/02/26/pf-732896.html (673 words)

	'Ellie' could break the Seinfeld curse
		In contrast, “Watching Ellie” is a slice-of-life story, literally: Every episode tracks 22 minutes in the life of Ellie Riggs, a singer with a suitably complicated professional and personal life, played by “Seinfeld” veteran Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
		Ellie does bear a resemblance to Elaine, and the strength of the actress’s performance is that she embraces their similarities rather than ignoring them.
		Playing Ellie’s current flame (and her band’s lead guitarist), British actor Darren Boyd is given considerably less to do, but his low-key charm helps balance the eccentricities of the other characters.
	www.medialifemagazine.com /news2002/feb02/feb25/3_wed/news3wednesday.html (598 words)

	TV Review: NBC's retooled 'Ellie' vastly more watchable
		"Watching Ellie" returns with the real-time element gone, and the show is now filmed mostly in front of a studio audience (some single-camera work remains in scenes shot outdoors and on location).
		The episode features Ellie recounting her troubles to her psychologist and then flashes back to reveal a change in the relationship between her and boyfriend Ben (Darren Boyd), who was married when they started dating.
		Ellie's singing doesn't come off as Louis-Dreyfus' vanity as much as it did last season, particularly in a future episode where Ellie's performance at a subway station is mined for laughs.
	www.post-gazette.com /TV/20030414owen0414fnp4.asp (758 words)

	Watching Ellie, by Ariana
		Ellie had pulled her panties back on and giggled all the way back to her car, imagining the ‘fish tale’ that guy would be spinning later in the evening and knowing not one of his buddies would ever believe it.
		Ellie recognized the desire, the nervous, eager way the watcher licked her lips as Ellie worked her fingers slowly in and out of her sex.
		Ellie smiled at her, opening her legs further so her new friend could get a good view of what she wanted and was pleased when her watcher went to her knees to watch more closely.
	www.desdmona.com /conteststory.php?StoryID=4403 (1064 words)

	'Ellie' poised to break 'Seinfeld' curse - PittsburghLIVE.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ellie is like a lot of single women — confident, insecure, happy, sad, successful, frustrated, and enjoying life as much as she can.
		Ellie frantically runs for the building superintendent, Ingvar (Peter Stormare), who is in love with her.
		Ellie is smart and capable, even when she's saying silly things or is frantically picking up her unconscious super from a wet bathroom floor.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_19390.html (525 words)

	Watching Ellie Review
		Watching Ellie, which is the brainchild of Julia's real life husband Brad Hall, is a high concept new program that takes place in real time.
		If Ellie runs outside to meet someone, we follow her all the way outside…we watch her the entire time (so it's just not a clever name then?).
		It remains to be seen how long we will be watching Ellie, but in the meantime it's worth the 22 minutes a week.
	www.boldopinion.com /elliereview.htm (528 words)

	Watching Ellie (TV Spotlight) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		Each week, Ellie confronts all manner of annoyances, including her much-too-pretty, married younger sister Susan, mysterious international neighbor Ingvar, and ex-boyfriend Edgar.
		Meanwhile, Ellie is trying to figure out just where she stands with her current "beau," Ben, who’s a guitarist in her band.
		"Watching Ellie" has some promise since Julia is very talented and funny...
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/tv/2002/watchingellie.html (403 words)

	Floridian: Going for the gimmick
		Watching Ellie's cast includes, clockwise from center, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Ellie Riggs, Lauren Bowles as Susan, Steve Carell as Edgar, Darren Boyd as Musician, Peter Stormare as Ingvar and Don Lake as Dr. Zimmerman.
		Despite a quirky cast, Watching Ellie is indisputably a showcase for Louis-Dreyfus, who is featured in every scene and first meets viewers in a skimpy lingerie-and-bathrobe outfit that shows off her well-toned abs (an effective, if exploitive, way to hook male viewers).
		Like Watching Ellie, Leap of Faith is filmed with a single camera, like a movie, with enhanced production values and a storytelling style that suggests a sophistication beyond your typical, living-room-and-kitchen-set sitcom.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/02/26/Floridian/Going_for_the_gimmick.shtml (1357 words)

	CoopersTown Crier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Arlene sat down on the couch and glanced over at her younger sister, Ellie, who was slumped down low on the couch as if she were stuck that way.
		One of Ellie's hands loosely held the remote control to the TV, while the other continuously and mindlessly reached into a bag of mini chocolate chip cookies resting on her lap.
		Ellie was so constantly focused on the T.V. that Arlene almost choked while sipping her tea when she realized Ellie was watching the weather channel.
	www.coopercrier.com /opinion/columns/2003/09/18/ccbruni.html (543 words)

	Tuesday
		Ellie, a jazz singer, copes with the stress of working with her dashing on-again, off-again bandmate boyfriend, Ben (British actor Darren Boyd, an excellent straight man amidst the strained chaos of the show), while living in the same building as her obnoxious ex (“The Daily Show’s” increasingly irritating Steve Carell).
		In the premiere, Ellie is attempting to convince Ben to move into an apartment in her building when she finds out his neighbor would be an impossibly tall, buxom Icelandic teen named Klinka.
		But on “Watching Ellie,” a show created by her husband, Brad Hall, she’s an abrasive, shrill, hyperactive presence, overacting wildly at all times.
	www.medialifemagazine.com /news2003/apr03/apr14/2_tues/news4tuesday.html (560 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: TV Eye
		The first is Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Ellie Riggs in the retooled Watching Ellie; the second is John Corbett's Michael 'Lucky' Linkletter in the new FX series, Lucky (not on USA, as I wrote last week).
		Ellie has an ongoing affair with a married man. Lucky is somehow responsible for his wife's death, yet couldn't even pay for her funeral.
		Ellie surrounds herself with men who are no good for her.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2003-04-18/screens_tveye.html (822 words)

	Dressage
		Velvet was irritated when Ellie was watching someone else on the other end of the arena, repeatedly spotted us making various errors when her back was turned.
		Ellie determined that Velvet wasn't ready for leg yield canters, but in the process, she made Velvet the most gorgeous performing horse that I had ever seen.
		Ellie said this was because she had taught Velvet to better her use of the powerful hindquarters.
	www.mofoxtrot.com /viewpoint/dressage.htm (611 words)

	Zap2it - TV news - 'Watching Ellie' Going into Hiding
		NBC says its plan all along was to save some of "Ellie's" 13 episodes for next year, because if the show is picked up, Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall, her husband and the show's creator, have stipulated they'll only do 15 episodes per season rather than the usual 22.
		"Watching Ellie's" seven-episode run will conclude Tuesday, April 2 with two episodes, one in its normal 8:30 slot and the other at 9:30, bumping "Scrubs" for the night.
		Should NBC decide to pass on another season of "Watching Ellie," the remaining six episodes would likely be aired as schedule-fillers during the summer.
	tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271\|74742\|1\|10,00.html (290 words)

	HippoPress
		"Watching Ellie" gives us an on-screen clock for all of the show's 22 minutes (this is still broadcast; 22 minutes is all those cheap bastards are going to give you).
		The premiere featured a scattered Ellie late for a performance and facing such comic hurdles as an overflowing toilet, an unconscious super, a public confrontation with her ex, and a private fight with her current beau, for whom Ellie is a mistress.
		While it certainly doesn't capture the sublime nothingness of "Seinfeld," "Watching Ellie" so far isn't really about anything (which is good, because squeezing that set-up/problem/resolution arc in 22 minutes would seem painfully unnatural).
	www.hippopress.com /tube/020307_ellie.html (671 words)

	Big Fat Blog: Watching Ellie Offends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ellie spends the first half of the episode talking with this fellow, whose name eludes me at the moment, on the phone.
		Ellie then recalls that this fellow had a very "hot bod", and her sister arranges for them to go on a date.
		Ellie then meets him at his apartment, and she is stunned: he is a lot fatter than she remembered from a year ago.
	www.bigfatblog.com /archives/000440.php (1572 words)

	Last of 'Seinfeld' co-stars makes debut in own show
		The difference between any other half-hour comedy and "Watching Ellie" is that "Ellie" takes place in real-time, meaning viewers see every minute of a particular 22 minutes in her life, even the stuff that's expendable, like walking down three flights of stairs.
		You can't shake the feeling that "Watching Ellie" is the most vain vanity project to hit TV in recent years.
		When Ellie finds Dr. Zimmerman, he's in his shower, but he leaps out to help her and runs down the apartment building hallway without ever thinking to wrap a towel around his waist.
	www.post-gazette.com /TV/20020224owenp1.asp (745 words)

	United Press International - Life & Mind - Cathy's World: Garbage and Gimmicks
		And you do want to, because a peculiar thing about "Watching Ellie" (perhaps it's the faux reality introduced by the real time gimmick) is that you become as irritated with these fictional people as you might with their real-life counterparts.
		Ingvar lusts after Ellie, as does pretty much every other man in her universe: another neighbor, a tow-truck driver, her married British boyfriend (Darren Boyd), her jerky ex-boyfriend (the sublime Steve Carell, on leave from "The Daily Show," and the source of the only laughs on the two "Watching Ellie" episodes I've seen.)
		"Watching Ellie" is the brainchild of Louis-Dreyfus's husband, the writer Brad Hall, previously best known for the dreadful post-"Friends" sitcom "The Single Guy." He's the showrunner here because NBC wanted a show starring his wife.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=03032002-030249-6075r (1451 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| Sex and the single neurotic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		While Ellie's boyfriend, Ben (Darren Boyd), for example, is cute, charming, sweet and a whole mess of big (married) trouble, Faith's fiancé (Bradley White) is a cartoonish anti-marriage poster, controlling, condescending and dull.
		But unlike Ellie's problems, which are myriad and complex, Faith's seem to be neatly cordoned off from the rest of her otherwise happy-go-lucky and serene life.
		Ellie calls him a horse's ass, to which he responds coolly, "Hey you're the one that went out with me for six months." Then he says he'll give her a call.
	www.salon.com /ent/tv/feature/2002/02/28/ellie/print.html (1841 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| Sex and the single neurotic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		"Watching Ellie" is one of two new shows, the other being "Leap of Faith" -- premiering Wednesday night, also on NBC -- that try to wrestle with the sitcom form while at the same time addressing that perennial favorite topic of TV, the trials and tribulations of unmarried womanhood.
		And, like "Lucy," "Watching Ellie's" innovations also seem to have resulted from creative solutions to its star's particular needs and circumstances that might, at least for a while, change the way network comedies are made.
		"Watching Ellie" and "Leap of Faith" have been relentlessly compared to their precursors, and if you listened in on the conference calls with Louis-Dreyfus and Bicks, as I did, you could see how this might get annoying after a while.
	archive.salon.com /ent/tv/feature/2002/02/28/ellie (1006 words)

	Watching Ellie TV Show - Watching Ellie Television Show - TV.com
		While hurrying to get out of her apartment in time for a club date, lounge singer Ellie Riggs has to deal with an overflowing toilet, her neighbor Ingvar who knocks himself unconscious trying to help, and a naked doctor who comes to the rescue.
		Ellie meets "Family Feud" host, Richard Karn at one of her club performances and Ellie gets the idea of being a contestant on the show in the hopes of winning a free vacation.
		Ellie gets a "family" of her own together with her sister Susan and a few adoptees.
	www.tv.com /watching-ellie/show/5810/summary.html (252 words)

	Ratings earn an extension for 'Watching Ellie' - PittsburghLIVE.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Encouraged by an uptick in the ratings for "Watching Ellie," NBC has decided to extend the show's spring run by two weeks.
		"We're proud of 'Watching Ellie' and continue to be buoyed by the show's performance and its potential," NBC Entertainment president Jeff Zucker says.
		"Ellie" also improved its rating among adults 18-49 by 17 percent, earning a 4.2 rating/11 share in the prized demographic, up from last week's 3.6/10, and built on its lead-in, a "Frasier" repeat (3.7/11 among adults 18.49).
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/tv/s_63657.html (308 words)

	USATODAY.com - Grating 'Ellie': This failure isn't worth repeating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		With its countdown clock and experimental real-time format, Watching Ellie was one of last season's more notable failures, a not particularly funny novelty better remembered for its gimmick than its characters.
		Ellie is now a Seinfeld-curse embarrassment for Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who survived the first, failed attempt with her reputation and charisma intact.
		Ellie was built for Louis-Dreyfus by her husband, Brad Hall, who is best known for creating the sitcom that epitomizes NBC's multiple post-Friends failures, The Single Guy.
	www.usatoday.com /life/television/reviews/2003-04-14-ellie_x.htm (483 words)

	village voice > arts > Lucky; Watching Ellie by Joy Press
		Like Lucky, Watching Ellie was devised as a solo vehicle for a former cast member of a hit '90s series.
		But Ellie is still single and still a failed chanteuse, a pseudo-bohemian orbited by a constellation of unpleasant characters, from the lecherous buffoon of an ex-boyfriend to a nasty rival singer.
		The first episode opens with Ellie at a shrink's office, whining about her cuddly English boyfriend (Darren Boyd, the show's one saving grace) who has left his wife for her.
	www.villagevoice.com /arts/0316,tv,43349,27.html (1211 words)

	deseretnews.com \| 'Watching Ellie' is no 'I Love Lucy' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ellie gets in a snit, however, when Ben practically loses the power of speech when he meets the landlord's statuesque, Icelandic niece.
		Oh, and all this is intercut with Ellie sitting in her therapist's office telling the tale.
		As is a second episode NBC sent to critics in which Ellie ends up singing in the subway.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,480035892,00.html (381 words)

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