Change ahead for Everwood (spoilers)

[MickBeth]

CHANGE AHEAD FOR 'EVERWOOD': This fall, the annual shuffling of the TV schedule put fear in the heart of hard-core "Everwood" fans. The WB moved the acclaimed family drama, which just began its fourth season, to Thursdays, where it's up against "CSI" and "The Apprentice" as well as highly touted newbies such as "Reunion" and "Night Stalker."

"We didn't expect [the move] at all, because everyone was so happy with our Monday nighttime slot. It kind of threw us a bit;, we were all a little nervous," said "Everwood's" Emily VanCamp (Amy Abbott), who was in Chicago on Thursday promoting the show. Still, she noted that "we have a pretty strong core audience who have been pretty faithful to the show."

Her co-star, Chris Pratt, who plays her TV brother, Bright Abbott, saw a bit of a silver lining in the move. "Thursday night, that's the night for all the big advertisers, for all the [commercials for] movies for the weekends. That's the spot where the networks bring out the big guns," Pratt said. "So to be considered the big gun could be looked at as a compliment." More from Emily VanCamp and Chris Pratt:

Do you think the show is changing at all this year?

Chris: "When you have the first season of Everwood, the pilot was just awesome, just perfect. There was this 30 episode arc in his head that was his vision. If you see the first couple season on DVD, you can really see how awesome that was. The show totally had its stride, and it's like passing the baton to someone and keep that stride, it's difficult. Because a lot of the stories that kept the show so compelling, you have to stop telling after a while. Ephram and Amy only works as long as it takes to get them together, then its like, 'Now what?' it's like [trying to create] part two of 'Romeo and Juliet.' The [strength] of the show [has been] that it's something that's it's a little atypical of the WB, which is why we have fans outside the typical demographic recognize us. I don't know, I think we're becoming a little more close to what their core audience is used to, and that's definitely a change from what it was in the beginning.

Emily: "There's less John Beasley, for instance, who I think is one of the most amazing characters on the show. I love watching him, I love working with him. And Debra Mooney."

Chris: "The voiceover."

Emily: "The voiceover. We're certainly lacking things that I loved as if I was watching as a viewer. But then we have new characters that are wonderful as well. I think that that's one thing I'd like to see more of, John. … I have every bit of faith, though, that the people behind the show and the passion that all of us actors have, that if we do go off track, we'll get back on. It'll always work out.

"Amy's entering this whole new world of college, and that experience is a frightening, and Ephram's realizing all these things. They're trying to maintain a friendship, which I think happens a lot in relationships that don't turn out particularly well, you try the friendship thing and that can be tough, but it's realistic."

Chris: "Bright will try to become more self aware and try to become a better person."

Emily: "And there's the whole Nina-Jake-Dr. Brown triangle, which is fun. And Tom [Amandes, Dr. Abbott], who's just Tom, who can just be his own storyline and still be the most interesting thing about the show. He doesn't really need anything to play off of, he can just walk around."

Chris: "He's so great."

And there's the fact that your characters' mother has cancer. It's funny, there has been all this tragic stuff on "Everwood," yet it never feels exploitative about the bad things that happen.

Emily: "I was on '[Late Night with] David Letterman' and he summed up the show in this extravagant, funny way. He hit all the key dramatic points and that's how he summed up the show, and it was so funny because it sounded completely melodramatic. If you watch the show though, they do those things very nicely and thoughtfully. You can't just have someone's mother have cancer and not approach that with grace and delicacy, because so many people know someone who's had it or who has experienced it."

Chris: "The day we filmed the episode on Rose's surgery, Tom's own mother went into surgery for cancer, that same day."

Emily: "It's amazing how close to home those things can be, you have to be careful."

But other shows aren't. People on other shows get cancer and get over it in two weeks.

Emily: "They do, yeah, on other shows. There's an integrity that we all really try to maintain on the show. That's something that's really important to us. [To Chris] Would you agree?"

Chris: "Yes, totally."

Emily: "Sarah [Drew] and I are constantly fighting to not take our clothes off. It's like this ongoing battle. Obviously, that stuff sells."

Chris: "Especially on the WB."

Is that coming from the network? The producers?

Emily: "I don't know who that really comes from."

Chris: "It wasn't like that always, was it?"

Emily:"No, it wasn't always like that, but it's just, you know, there are moments, that all the young women [encounter]. Thankfully they brought in someone like Sarah who is just as adamant about that stuff as I am."

Chris: "I'm always fighting to take my clothes off [laughs]."

Emily: "It's all bout maintaining that integrity, that's what holds it all together, I think."

What do you think will happen with Bright and Hannah - are they too different?

Chris: "I've been so lucky to work with Sarah, she's classically trained, she's been on Broadway, she's 25, which you would never know, playing a 16 year old. [As far as Bright and Hannah], it's one of those situations where Bright is the kind of guy who does best when there's someone who's proud of him. Now he's got Hannah, and he wants to make her proud. He wants to do things that would make him character, and himself happy too. He was existing in this world where it was okay for him to do whatever he was doing because he was Bright, 'Oh, that's just Bright, he's funny,' you know? But he was really saved by Hannah, I think."

Where would you like Bright to end up?

Chris: "I bet college wouldn't be right for him, but I'd like to see him do something like become a hero of Everwood again somehow, become a firefighter or EMT, and [have] the community be proud of him somehow. Helping people, but … I don't know if he saw blood, he might be queasy. There's been a lot of stuff written [that implies Bright might not deal well with the sight of blood]."

It looks like Amy has a new love interest in Bright's new roommate, the medical student.

Emily: "Yeah, that's Justin Baldoni, he plays the new love interest. It's kind of interesting at first, there's a misunderstanding and she thinks he's gay. She finds out that he's not, and that turns into something, but Ephram ends up moving in with those two boys, so it's like this weird thing where Ephram sees us and we're together and there's this whole triangle thing.

"I think that politically, Amy starts to get involved with her university, I'm not certain if that's going to happen, but I really hope that that happens. There's conflict with Hannah and Amy, there's all sorts of conflict all the time on 'Everwood.' [laughs]"

Do you have input into your characters?

Emily: "Not particularly, that's what's scary [laughs]."

Chris: "We'll get little tidbits."

Emily: "You never quite know what they're going to throw at you until you get the script. But we have this great executive producer, Mickey Liddell, he's just awesome and easy to talk to and takes everything into consideration. It's really nice to have someone like that you can go to, [someone] who's involved and knows what's going on. And we also talk amongst each other, we're a pretty tight family. I'll talk to Tom [Amandes] about concerns and he'll give me dad-like advice."

Chris: "And we'll stick together. There's something that just recently came up in a script, where Sarah [Drew] was concerned about something, they were going to have us almost being naked together … And then it just turns out that all we had to do was have a conversation with everbody and they totally made everything work out to make her happy."

But isn't the character of Hannah not into premarital sex?

Emily: "I know, that's why we didn't get it. I don't know. Sometimes they forget we're not like a mountainous 'O.C.'- [laughs] 'No wait, this is just actually just 'Everwood.'"

What would be your ultimate wishes for your characters, just your own personal wishes?

Chris: "I wish for Bright to marry Hannah. Marry her, then he can finally get down [laughs]. No, no. Marry her, hang around Everwood and be a fixture of the community, open a sporting-goods store, coach the football team."

Emily: "I think Amy needs to spread her wings and get out of Everwood and see some of the world, put things into perspective. And then come home, and I bet her and Ephram will end up together and have a happy family."

Emily and Chris then told me what happens regarding Rose Abbott's bout with cancer, but I promised not to tell and I won't.

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Dammit. Why won't she take her clothes off.. I assure you.. Emily Van Camp naked will win ANY ratings war.

hey anyone know who emily is currently dating???'

and i more Q'.

Has anythhing ever happen between gregory and her?????


thanx !
Leo.

[MickBeth]

Emily is dating her co-star Chris Pratt