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Posted Apr 3rd 2009 1:01PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
No, George Clooney did not show up for the series finale of
ER.
But it was a pretty good finale anyway. It's impossible to please all fans of a long-running show in a series finale because we expect too much, and what we expect can change depending on whether you've been watching it since the beginning or just started four years ago. Do they focus on the old cast members coming back and focus on the people who have been there for the past few years? Do they tie up all loose ends neatly in a bow or leave things open-ended because that's how life is?
ER managed to do both last night.
After the jump, the good and bad about the last episode of
ER.
Continue reading ER: And In The End ... (series finale)
Posted Apr 2nd 2009 10:13AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Yup, tonight is the final
ER. NBC will have an hour-long retrospective at 8 PM and then the two-hour season finale of the show at 9 PM (sorry, fans of
My Name Is Earl,
The Office, and
30 Rock). We've seen several old favorites come back this season in previous episodes, and we know that a couple more are coming back for tonight's last hurrah. Will George Clooney be one of them?
Clooney already made an appearance on the show with Juliana Margulies
a few weeks ago, and I liked the episode enough. It's just that there was a slight something missing from the episode, something concerning Doug and Carol and them not knowing that the kidney going to County General was for Carter.
Continue reading And here we go again: will Clooney show up on ER again tonight?
Posted Mar 31st 2009 2:09PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Video, Reality-Free
So this Thursday at 9pm, the series finale of
ER airs on NBC. I think that even former fans who drifted away from the show when Anthony Edwards was killed off, or when Noah Wyle left, or when they just didn't enjoy the show anymore because it had been on for too long will tune into the finale. You can't watch a show for so many years and then just forget all about the finale. The thing has been on since Bill Clinton's first term, so we gotta find out how it ends.
The episode (like this season in general) will also have some familiar faces coming back to County General, and probably some in pictures and/or flashbacks (the episode will be preceded by a retrospective at 8pm). After the jump, a video sneak peek at the episode (and, yes, there are possible spoilers, so proceed with caution!)
Continue reading Here's a sneak peek at Thursday's ER series finale - VIDEO
Posted Jan 23rd 2009 8:50AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Wow, just the other day
we told you about George Clooney coming back to ER for an episode this final season, and now it has been confirmed that his on-screen wife is coming back to the show too.
Juliana Margulies, who played Nurse Carol Hathaway on the show before she and Clooney walked off into the sunset in a surprise scene in her last episode, has agreed to come back to the show too. She and Clooney are going to film their scenes later this week. Margulies joins Anthony Edwards, Laura Innes, Alex Kingston, Paul McCrane, Abraham Benrubi, who have already made return engagements this season, and Noah Wyle, William H. Macy, and Eriq LaSalle. who are still to come (Gloria Reuben made an appearance last season). You know who'd I'd like to see return to the show one last time? Sherry Stringfield. Susan Lewis was one of my favorite characters.
The last episode of the show airs April 2.
Posted Dec 28th 2008 9:01AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Yet another
ER veteran is coming back to the show for a last-season guest spot.
Alex Kingston will reprise her role as Dr. Elizabeth Corday in the January 15 episode. She'll come back when Neela has to interview with her for an attending job. If you remember, Corday was married to Dr. Mark Greene but inevitably had to leave the show after he died and there really wasn't much for her to do (those episodes where she dated others just didn't ring true).
Continue reading Paging Dr. Corday to County General ... Dr. Corday to County General ...
Posted Nov 17th 2008 8:06AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Awww, Juliana, you don't want to come back to County?
Seems like we've been hearing news about old
ER members coming back to the show for its final season, and
now comes word from Juliana Marguiles. The actress says that she won't be coming back to the show because she thinks that Carol Hathaway left on a good note and she really can't see how they could top it. A lot of fans would probably say they don't want them to top the character's last appearance, they just want to see the character one more time before the series fades off into the sunset.
Continue reading Juliana Margulies says N-O to ER
Posted Nov 13th 2008 10:00AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Video, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Tonight's the night that thousands of fans of
ER have been waiting for, the return of Jennifer Aniston! Oh wait,
that's 30 Rock that she'll be on tonight. Never mind.
Actually, tonight is the night that Dr. Mark Greene (
Anthony Edwards) returns to County to try to save the life of Dr. Banfield's sick son. As we told you last week, Greene isn't really alive and he's not a ghost. It seems that Dr. Banfield came to County with her son and husband, years before she became the new head of the ER, and Greene was the doctor who worked on her son. Her memory (and the flashbacks) are triggered by a current story where Banfield is trying to save the life of another child who comes to County.
Edwards isn't the only one who comes back. Since most of the episode takes place years ago, we also see
Laura Innes as Dr. Weaver and
Paul McCrane as Dr. Romano. Innes has a rather dramatic entrance in the clip after the jump!
Continue reading Here's a sneak peek at tonight's ER with Anthony Edwards - VIDEO
Posted Nov 4th 2008 1:29PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Reality-Free
When the news came that
ex-ER star Anthony Edwards was going to return to the show for an episode this last season, fans wondered how that could happen, since he died (and we mean really died, not soap opera died) of a brain tumor around 6 years ago. Would he be a ghost? A hallucination only a patient can see? Would he be Mark's long-lost twin brother (Matt, or maybe Monty) who comes to work at County because his brother worked there? The news that Dr. Mark Greene is going to interact somehow with new doctor Cate Banfield (Angela Bassett) just makes the scenario more confusing.
But now we have our answer. Edwards tells the AP that
Mark will be shown via flashback in an
ER story we haven't seen before.
Continue reading Anthony Edwards to interact with Angela Bassett on ER (and he's not a ghost!)
Posted Jan 30th 2007 12:29PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, ER, Interviews, Celebrities, TCA Press Tour
At the NBC party for the TCA press tour earlier this month, there was a small contingent of
ER cast members floating around, but two of them happened to be my favorites: Linda Cardellini and Parminder Nagra (what, you think I was going to say Shane West?). Both actresses seem to be more prominently involved in the veteran show's storylines this year: Cardellini's Samantha Taggart has already had to deal with killing her fugitive ex-husband and now is trying to figure out how to control a son whose behavior is going south, and Nagra's Neela Rasgotra has been in a torrid affair with John Stamos' character, Tony Gates.
I caught up with both of them and asked them about how they think the year's been going so far and what's in store for each of their characters during the remainder of the season.
Continue reading Cardellini and Nagra give up nuggets of ER info
Posted Jan 11th 2007 7:33PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, ER, Celebrities
For those of you who watched
last week's ER and thought, "Whoa! Weaver got fired?!", you're not alone. But if you also thought that there might be an opening for Laura Innes' character to stick around, you'd be wrong. Innes tells TVGuide.com that
she's definitely leaving the show after tonight's episode; she may come back for an episode or two next year, but that's about it.
Basically, after playing Kerry Weaver for over eleven years, she just felt it was time to go. That's kind of a surprise to me, because for the first time in a few years, the Weaver character was actually going in a good direction, with a new hip, a new girlfriend, and that TV job. And, because she was just a plain attending and not management, her power-hungry side was gone. But that was part of the plan to have her leave, according to Innes, as well as making it a mid-season surprise.
Continue reading Laura Innes talks about leaving ER
Posted Jan 5th 2007 12:04AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, ER
(S13E12) Well, that was unexpected.
Laura Innes' character, Doctor Kerry Weaver, wasn't in many episodes over the last few years, but it looked like she was coming back into the normal ER fold. It started late last season when the issues with her degenerative hip condition were resolved, allowing her to walk freely without the need of a crutch. Then, after preventing Kovac from getting fired, she was demoted back down to the ER as a mere attending. She became a medical reporter for a local Chicago news broadcast, and she began dating her segment producer. Things were looking up for Kerry.
Now, it looks like she's leaving for good.
Continue reading ER: Breach of Trust
Posted Jan 14th 2006 12:32PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, ER
What's
happening on
ER these days? It must be something big because the NBC hospital drama made a huge comeback last
week, beating out a repeat of
Without a Trace with 15.4 million viewers. Yes, it was a repeat. But, even the
repeats on CBS have been kicking NBC's butt lately.
I gave up on
ER years ago, even before George
Clooney left, because I couldn't handle having a major emotional breakdown each week. I tuned in for a couple of key
episodes over the years: i.e. when Lucy and Carter got stabbed in the kidneys, when Doug left, when Carol left, and
when Dr. Green died.
So tell me, is it any good?
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