Sunday, November 1, 2009

NBC Cancels Trauma

I don't know if any of you watched the NBC medical series Trauma but if you did and liked it then you will be sorry to hear NBC are pulling the plug. The show, which is in the middle of a 13 episode season stars veteran Kiwi actor Cliff Curtis (you may remember him from his show-down with Nero in this summer's Star Trek) as the daredevil flight medic Reuben "Rabbit" Palchuck.

The Peacock network launched two new medical shows in the wake of ER's demise (yes, I am still sobbing) and the other one, Mercy, is clearly the stronger twin as it has already been given a full-season.

Last week Variety reported that the "show from Peter Berg's Film 44 shingle was supposedly the most expensive show on the Peacock's fall lineup. The network was put in a tough spot earlier in the year when Parenthood had to be pushed back to 2010 when co-star Maura Tierney was ill."

Hard to believe NBC, once so successful at producing quality dramas is experiencing these kind of problems but maybe it's karma for killing that 10pm slot in support of Leno's 'chat' TV.


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  2. No surprise. Filming in San Francisco was a pain, traffic had to reroute, roads were closed. It's sad SF is so beautiful yet so much red tape for filming. But the show itself had nothing significant to offer. The reason these types of shows are being cancelled is because they have become boring. The in thing now is CSI(anycity), vampires and talking to the dead. So every network needs to get on the bandwagon and outdo one another with the in thing or lose ranking.
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