The Fall TV Season officially kicks off tonight, Monday, September 21, and that means all your favorite shows should be returning. If not, they will in January, unless they were canceled of course. But the new Fall season also means plenty of new shows that probably won’t last a season. With that in mind, a [...]

Noah Wyle is jumping back into the TV pool, signing on to star in a sci-fi pilot for TNT that Steven Spielberg is executive producing.
The project will star Wyle as the leader of a group of soldiers and civilians who mount a resistance against an alien invasion force. Spielberg — who also executive produced ER, [...]

Mekhi Phifer will trade his ER scrubs for an FBI badge when he does a guest-starring arc on Lie to Me in May.
Phifer, who starred on NBC’s medical drama for six seasons, will play an FBI agent in two episodes of Lie to Me starting Wednesday, May 6. He’ll team up with Cal Lightman (Tim [...]

Peter Krause and Maura Tierney aren’t taking a whole lot of time off between TV gigs.
Krause, who starred on ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money, will star NBC’s new take on the 1989 movie Parenthood, while  Tierney, who ended her nine-season run as an ER regular earlier in the season, is in negotiations to join him. Mae [...]

Former Gilmore Girls star Alexis Bledel has been admitted to the ER for the long-running show’s series finale.
Bledel will play a new intern at County General in the final episode, People reports. The two-hour finale, which caps a 15-year run on NBC, airs April 2.
Bledel will be a new face among a bunch of familiar [...]

NBC’s spring schedule underwent a pretty sizable makeover Thursday with the official announcement of a new drama from producer John Wells, a new night for Kings and a premiere date for Amy Poehler’s comedy.
The Wells show, Southland, will debut at 10 p.m. ET Thursday, April 9, taking over for ER after that series ends its [...]

John Wells’ new cop show for NBC looks like it will make it to the air after all. And to top it off, ER is getting a little bit more time to say goodbye.
The deal with Wells and Warner Bros. TV, which produces both ER and the new show, the generically titled Police, calls for [...]

One more familiar face will be making her final rounds in the ER this season.
Alex Kingston, who had a seven-season run on the NBC series as Dr. Elizabeth Corday, will reprise her role on Thursday, Jan. 15, NBC says. She joins former TV husband Anthony Edwards and Noah Wyle in making guest appearances during the [...]

Michael Crichton, the mind behind dinosaurs and robotic cowboys running amok in Jurassic Park and Westworld has died. He was 66.
The best-selling author and filmmaker died after a “courageous and private battle against cancer” in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Nov. 4, according to a statement released by his family.
Crichton is best known as the author [...]

Now that the strike is over, you probably want to know when your favorite “scripted” television shows will be coming back to the air with new episodes. The networks have quietly begun outlining plans to salvage what’s left of the current TV season and here is what they have come up with…
***However, schedule is subject [...]

Available at Amazon.com
Creator
Michael Crichton
Cast
Noah Wyle………Dr. John Carter
Laura Innes………Dr. Kerry Weaver
Laura Céron………Nurse Chuny Marquez
Anthony Edwards………Dr. Mark Greene
Eriq La Salle………Dr. Peter Benton
Goran Visnjic………Dr. Luka Kovac
Maura Tierney………Nurse Abby Lockhart
Sherry Stringfield………Dr. Susan Lewis
DVD Release Date: January 22, 2008
Rating: Not Rated
Running Time: 981 Minutes on 6 discs
List Price: $49.98
The Show
Warning: There are spoilers in this review for those who have [...]

Well the writers’ strike has certainly made it difficult to write some columns, hasn’t it?
I still support what the writers are striking for (I do have a beard, after all), but I also continue to get annoyed by the union tactics and their overall childish, self-centered behavior. Case-in-point: Huckabee crosses the picket line [...]

With ER celebrating its 300th episode, I felt it fitting to discuss the last few episodes of the long running series. While on the topic of medical dramas, I thought I’d also briefly discuss the official new team on House.
I’ve noted before that this season seems to be making an added effort to enhance [...]

In today’s fast moving and impatient TV world, it is a rare occasion when a prime-time drama lasts for 14 seasons, but ER is one of those unique shows and it marked its 300th episode this week.
When you look back at the show over the years, it’s impossible to ignore the main change which is [...]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about my Tuesday night television lineup, and this week I’m going to do the same for my Thursday night (excluding Smallville, which typically has its own column). That leaves two NBC staples, The Office and ER.
I’m pretty fresh into my viewing of The Office, as I only [...]

Last month another TV season ended. It was another interesting one. But who exactly came out on top? Which shows climbed to the top of the mountain and looked down at all of its fallen foes in “TV Rerun Hell”? Which shows got cut too soon and which shows surprised us all? What [...]

CTV might as well be named See-TV because if you want to watch anything in Canada, the chances are that CTV has it. The network is clearly the one-stop shop for the latest and greatest in primetime programming.
The network announced its Fall 2007 primetime schedule yesterday at the annual Upfront presentation in Toronto.
After interviewing [...]

13 proved to be an unlucky number for ER, as its 13th season, which ended this week, was one of its most lackluster, to say the least. However, the season finale, “The Honeymoon Is Over” was actually better than most of the recent episodes, even if it did feature one of the lamest cliffhangers ever [...]

Another week, another episode of ER. Same old same old. The ER is back at work after the renovations, which seemed to have come and gone with no visible changes.
Ray is missing and nobody seemed to care about until halfway through the episode. In case you don’t remember, Ray had a close encounter of [...]

Let me begin this week by quoting, of all people, myself. Three weeks ago in this space I wrote this about Sam: “I have to be honest – I was afraid they’ll do the ultimate cliche and have her assaulted or hit by a car when she was outside of the bar, but I’m glad [...]