No, NBC isn't thinking about giving the show another season, but they are definitely thinking about making this current last season of the show last just a little bit longer.How are they going to do that? The network is planning to have the last 4 episodes of the show be 5 hours long each.
OK, I'm just kidding about that. Actually, they're thinking about increasing the number of episodes of this final season of ER from 19 to 22. A full season for many shows is usually around 22 episodes, so this wouldn't be anything special, but they did plan to have a shorter season of the show all along so this 3 episode increase is good news for fans. And probably the network too, since it still gets good ratings each week, even though it's been on the air since 1994.
The same thing happened last season. Everyone thought that the ratings would go down and that it would be the last season, and then the show started to do great in the ratings, even beating other NBC shows they tried.
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10-23-2008 @ 5:54PM
C.A. said...
That was an awesome joke! I was quite surprised they would make episodes longer than movies!
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10-24-2008 @ 7:16AM
Becky said...
Well I hope they use those additional episodes to bring back former members of the cast and not introducing even more new characters we don't care about.
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1-09-2009 @ 11:06AM
kerry wenrich said...
why of all the dirty things they could do what would people who like the show watch thursdays at 10pm now
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1-13-2009 @ 3:07PM
ladyhawkofdawn said...
I have watch ER from the being of time and hate to see ER leave but I know all good things must come to an end. Thank you for making a great show and wish all the best of luck to everyone involved.
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