https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bohf4OpD7I
If you are like me and you have been wanting a medical drama that has the heart of St Elsewhere, ER and Chicago Hope, then Chicago Med is for us. The NBC drama from Dick Wolf debuts on 9p and I haven’t loved a show like this since ER went off the air. It is not like ER, but it has that feel of a real hospital with real doctors dealing with real patients. It is not a soap opera and it doesn’t go over the top with medical disasters.
Having said that, tonight’s episode starts out with a subway that goes off the track injuring several people and some are critical. Lucky for the passengers, Dr. Connor Rhodes (Colin Donnell), who is the new Head of Trauma at Chicago Med, is on board. He is helping the wounded until help arrives. Once the other medics are there, it is off to the hospital and save as many patients as they can.
Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) and Dr. Natalie Manning (Torrey DeVitto) will try to save the life of a surrogate, who has suffered a major brain injury in the accident, but the baby is OK and the fetus’ parents have to decide what to do. While they are working her, Dr. Ethan Choi (Brian Tee) and intern Dr. Sarah Reese (Rachel DiPillo) work on another victim from the crash, a young girl who suddenly suffers cardiac arrest in their care.
It is hospital and they have more patients besides the ones in the crash, there is a man who has Cystic Fibrosis and he doesn’t want to be incubated again when he comes in with pneumonia. Dr. Daniel Charles (Oliver Platt) and Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) will do everything they can to convince him otherwise. Will these patients survive?
You just have to tune into to find out. That and to watch a medical drama that is like the great shows in the genre from the ’80s and ’90s. Plus, it is a perfect companion with Chicago Fire. What more do you need on your Tuesday nights?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs77wDxPNU4
On December 3rd, NBC is taking us to The Wiz for one night only, but the live musical will have two Dorothys. Stephanie Mills, who played the role in the 1978 movie and Shanice Williams, who is doing it now. To promote the upcoming performance, the two of them sang Home, the lead’s signature song, together. If this is what we can expect next month, I can’t wait to see it live!
NBC announced yesterday at a press event in Chicago yesterday that they picked up Chicago Fire and Chicago PD for another season. The news is really no surprise because NBC’s 10p dramas are on fire. That’s why they picked up 3 of them for another season just weeks after this one began.
Maybe CBS can take a lesson from them because they are really struggling in this timeslot this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TwufjGR2-c
It is not even 2016 and NBC is already making plans for next year. They announced today that Blindspot was picked up for a second season. I mean it really is no surprise because it will most likely wind up being this season’s biggest new show. Plus, the ratings and the creativity have been consistent, which most freshman shows cannot say this year.
The only surprising thing about it, is that made they announced the decision so early.
NBC also announced that they picked The Mysteries of Laura for three more episodes. I wish it were more, but I will take what I can get.
Oh now I get why they made a decision on Blindspot. They were talking to Executive Producer Greg Berlanti about Laura and figured they might as well talk to him about his other show on the network. While talking to him about the Blindspot, they probably liked what he was saying and said go have a season 2. I don’t know if this really happened, but it seems plausible, right?
NBC released a photo of David Alan Grier as The Cowardly Lion in The Wiz Live and I though he looked more like another TV/movie beast. Doesn’t he look more like Harry from Harry and the Hendersons than lion who only wants to have courage?
Well on a positive note, they both do a good jazz hands as they ease on down the road.
