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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 Feb 20th 2009 11:33AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free
Oh,
ER. Not again, not again.
If you watched last night's episode of
ER, you saw the return of Dr. John Carter. His wife is visiting family in Paris, and he's back in Chicago to...well, we don't exactly know why he's back yet, but he's actually going to be working part-time at County General again. That's the only good news about what happened last night (I thought this was just going to be a quick visit by Wyle for a few episodes, I didn't realize he'd be working at the hospital again) because the ending probably made longtime
ER fans sigh and/or grit their teeth.
The last scene showed Carter hooked up to...well, I'm not a doctor, but I'm assuming it's a dialysis machine or some sort of cancer treatment? He had a haunted look on his face, and he had a rather somber attitude throughout the entire episode. Scenes from episodes coming up showed Carter saying that he came back to Chicago specifically to talk to Dr. Banfield (?) and we also saw a scene of Carter dropping to the floor in the emergency room looking really, really bad.
Are they going to kill off Carter a la Mark Greene?
Continue reading Is ER going to kill off John Carter too?
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 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 Sep 4th 2008 2:24PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: ER, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Remember a while back when we talked about this being the
last season of ER and producers were trying to get old cast members to come back for an episode of the show and we joked that they should find a way to get Anthony Edwards back on the show for an episode even though his character died?
The producers have
Anthony Edwards coming back to the show for an episode even though his character died.
You can probably guess how Dr. Mark Greene will be coming back. He hasn't been kept alive by some mysterious millionaire in a mountain hideout all these years (though I would happily swallow such a soap opera-ish plot because I never thought they should have killed off Mark in the first place), the character will actually be seen in new flashbacks that have something to do with a new character played by
Angela Bassett (this won't be footage from past episodes, they're new flashbacks to events we didn't see on the show before).
Continue reading Anthony Edwards returning to ER (!)
Posted Jun 18th 2007 9:31AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: OpEd, ER, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Either the following is an extraordinary coincidence, a homage to another NBC drama, or another plot rip-off by Aaron Sorkin. One of the storylines that is running through the remaining episodes of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is the problem pregnancy of Danny Tripp's (Bradley Whitford) new fiance Jordan McDeere. When we last left Danny, he had learned that she was facing placenta accreta as well as disseminated intravascular coagulation (please don't ask me to explain what they are). And, while the doctor said not to worry there was quite a bit of concern.
Continue reading Do the pregnancy problems of Studio 60's Danny and Jordan have an ER connection?
Posted Oct 26th 2006 10:01PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, ER, The Five, Watercooler Talk
Hi again. No new ER this week due to America's national pastime (the World Series, for the confused). So, I thought I'd take my usual Thursday night spot to pose a question to all fans of the show, past and present. Who do you miss from County General? There have been plenty of doctors and nurses who have come and gone through the doors of the emergency room. Some of them we were glad to see go, and we wish others would return for at least a guest appearance.
While I wait for your comments on the subject, here are the five ER cast members I miss.
John Carter (Noah Wyle) -- All right, I admit it, I had a "man crush" on Dr. Carter. In the very beginning of the series run I always felt the show was a bit empty when he wasn't around. Carter was the face of how things changed in the emergency room. Plus, he was one of those characters that we could root for, especially with events such as his stabbing and drug addiction and his rocky relationship with Abby. I wouldn't mind at all if he returned to ER for a few episodes this season.
Continue reading The Five: Who I miss from ER
Posted May 21st 2006 7:27PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, OpEd, ER
Abby Lockhart has become the new Mark Greene.
As fans of the long-running ER know, Dr. Greene (Anthony Edwards) had some of the worst luck and unhappiness in the emergency room staff of County General. First, his wife leaves him, then he gets beaten up in the ER bathroom by a unknown assailant. Both his mother and father die in the same year, he's diagnosed with a brain tumor (which was successfully removed), his daughter feeds his newborn child Escasty, his brain tumor comes back, and he dies while in Hawaii. Needless to say, the man had no luck.
And now Abby (Maura Tierney) looks like she's wearing the albatross around her neck. Well, actually, she's been wearing it for several seasons now. It began when she was kicked out of medical school after her ex-husband failed to pay her tuition. Then, she had a rough set of relationships with Doctors Luka Kovac and John Carter. Her bi-polar mother stop taking her meds and her brother was diagnosed with the same mental disease as her mother. Last season she was kidnapped by a drug dealer who wanted Abby to treat an injured comrade.
Continue reading Why can't Abby be happy, for pete's sake
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