noah wyle-related stories
Posted Jun 26th 2009 5:04PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Noah Wyle is going from fighting vampires in
The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice to fighting aliens for Steven Spielberg. The former
ER doc
has signed on to the Oscar-wining filmmaker's alien invasion pilot for TNT as the leader of a "ragtag" group of rebels set to make trouble for the alien baddies.
The series will take place months after the alien force has decimated the human population of Earth, leading Wyle and friends to strike back any way they can. (Thankfully, George Lucas' name has not been mentioned in any news surrounding this upcoming sci-fi project.)
Continue reading Noah Wyle officially boards Spielberg's alien-invasion pilot
Posted Jun 16th 2009 3:01PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Steven Spielberg, the man behind sci-fi movie classics like
E.T and
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, is
producing an alien-invasion drama pilot for TNT. The unnamed series would potentially take place on Earth six months after evil aliens wipe out most of humanity.
We still don't know if Spielberg will direct the pilot, but the award-winning filmmaker reportedly wants to cast Noah Wyle to play the potential series' lead. The former
E.R. star would play the leader of a group of human rebels trying to bring down the big bad aliens.
Continue reading Spielberg wants to bring aliens and Noah Wyle to TNT
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 Mar 13th 2009 3:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Video, Watercooler Talk, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
So yes, George Clooney was indeed on
ER last night.
The episode, overall, was very good. The banter between Carter and Benton was great, and it was great to see Eriq LaSalle again, and the way they reintroduced Doug and Carol into the plot was really well done and didn't seem forced or stupid. The show deserves points for that. It didn't work 100% though. Here's what I loved and what I didn't love about the episode.
Continue reading Last night's ER: very satisfying, maybe a little disappointing - VIDEO
Posted Mar 12th 2009 10:02AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Reality-Free
If you've been watching NBC this week, you've probably seen all the promos for tonight's episode of
ER. The episode is called "Old Times" and will feature former stars Juliana Margulies and Eriq LaSalle (joining Noah Wyle, who has been back for a couple of weeks). But one star who is supposed to be on the show before it ends in early April, George Clooney, isn't in the promos for tonight's episode. Does that mean he's not on until a later episode?
Probably not. Producer John Wells is telling fans to make sure they watch tonight's episode, and Margulies has already said that she has filmed scenes with Clooney, so it's a good bet that he's on tonight's episode. Also, if you notice that at the very end of the promo, the screen suddenly goes black when Margulies says hello to someone she sees. Above is a pic of Clooney on the set when he filmed his scenes in January.
Continue reading Clooney is (probably) on ER tonight
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 Dec 4th 2008 11:08AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: TV Royalty, Interviews, Celebrities, Reality-Free
What can you say about Bob Newhart that hasn't been written a million times over? He's a TV legend, with two classic sitcoms (
The Bob Newhart Show and
Newhart) on his resume. He's also a stand-up comedy legend, who left a humble accounting career to win a Grammy with his first comedy album,
The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, in 1960. He still tours today, and has been seen on both the big and small screens in a number of projects (
Legally Blonde, Elf, ER).
On Sunday at 8 PM ET, he co-stars in
The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice, the third in the
Librarian series that has become a nice little franchise for TNT. He plays Judson, who acts as a guide and mentor to
Noah Wyle's character of Flynn Carsen, a librarian who acts more like Indiana Jones than the person who stamps the insides of new books.
I spoke to Newhart by phone last week; we discussed the movie, shooting in New Orleans, his recent penchant for memorable supporting roles, and if he thinks the multi-camera sitcom has a future.
Continue reading Bob Newhart: The TV Squad Interview
Posted Nov 6th 2008 7:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Reality-Free
I'm not sure what George Clooney fans are called. Clooneys? Cloonsters? Cloons? Whatever you fans are called, you're probably going to be very happy about this news.
In an upcoming
TV Guide interview, ex-
ER star Noah Wyle (who will be appearing in several episodes this last season) says that Clooney said he will "absolutely" appear in the show in an episode, at least if his schedule permits it (though I'm sure he'll make the time). This has been off again and on again for so many months, but I think Clooney will do it.
Continue reading Yup, Clooney coming back to ER (probably)
Posted Sep 29th 2008 1:07PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: OpEd, ER, Reality-Free
We all know that ER is famous for its deaths. Not only of the patients that are served by Chicago's County General but of its staff as well. Particularly in its emergency room. Fact of the matter is, there have been so many deaths of ER personnel that I'm surprised that a police investigation hasn't been opened to determined if they were natural or a bit suspicious. Some of these deaths have been shocking, such as Lucy Knight's during season six. Others were long in coming, like Mark Greene's peaceful death in season 8.
Continue reading Greg Pratt's fate on ER -- too soon?
Posted Sep 22nd 2008 3:19PM by Kelly Woo
Filed under: ER, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
With this being the final season of
ER, the show naturally wants to bring back some of its old stars for cameos. George Clooney is the big fish to land, of course, and producers say they've got a
juicy storyline to lure him in.
Showrunner David Zabel told TV Guide, "We have a really good story line for every [major] character from the past to show [the actors] what we want to do."
Anthony Edwards is already on board to appear in flashbacks on the Nov. 13 episode (since his character, Dr. Greene, is dead), along with Paul McCrane (Dr. Romano) and Laura Innes (Dr. Weaver). Noah Wyle will guest star in four episodes, and Alex Kingston may show up as Dr. Corday.
Continue reading How ER plans to get George Clooney back
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 Jul 23rd 2008 3:38PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: ER, Reality-Free
This originally was going to be yet another post on how George Clooney might come back to ER one last time in the final season of the show (executive producer John Wells says he hasn't asked him yet). But we've been back and forth on that so many times that we really don't know what's going to happen. However, TV critic Terry Morrow did ask Wells if any characters on the show would be killed off in the show's last season, and Wells says that yes, at least one person on ER will die before the show ends. He didn't, however, say whether it's a current cast member or if it's someone new that will be introduced this season.
So assuming that it's a character we already know, who do you think it should be? After the jump, a poll. Should a helicopter fall on Morris? How about Neela getting shot by a patient? Maybe an explosion in the emergency room can kill everyone except Frank? Are they bringing Noah Wyle back just to kill him with a Sno-Cone machine?
Continue reading Who will die in ER's final season?
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