Actress Julianne Margulies has revealed that she turned down the chance to appear on the final season of ER.

Margulies played nurse Carol Hathaway from 1994 to 2000. Her character left the show to settle down with George Clooney’s character, Dr Doug Ross.

“I feel like I left Carol in the best scenario possible,” said the 42-year-old. “I can’t imagine making it any better than that.”

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Despite repeated denials, people are still speculating that George Clooney will be returning to ER for its final episode this year.

The Hollywood star left the show in 2000 to pursue a movie career, but his old co-star Noah Wyle (aka Dr John Carter) is sure he will be returning.

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Former ER actor, Anthony Edwards has said that George Clooney would be “a fool” if he didn’t return to the show for at leats part of its final season.

Edwards who played Dr Greene on the show and will return in a series of flashback scenes, the show bosses have already composed storylines which would allow all the old stars to return. Read more & comment »

I knew the doctors from County General Hospital’s ER were good at their job, but I never would have suspected that they could bring back the dead.

ER returns to US TV screens this November for its final series and as part of it’s farewell to fans it will be bringing back Mark Greene, one of its most popular characters.

The twist is of course that Mark died several series ago, but thankfully they won’t be chancing a back from the dead storyline. Mark will appear in a series of flashbacks that have something to do with a new character played by Angela Bassett. The flashbacks will consist of all new footage and not old scenes already aired. Read more & comment »

ER actress, Maura Tierney has revealed that she would love the shows writers to kill of her character, Abby Lockhart when it draws to an end next year. The show is about to enter its fifteenth series which is expected to be its last.

“I want them to kill me,” she told AOL. “And they won’t. They refused to kill Abby.”

“I’ve been on the show for a long time,” she said. “I had a really great time there, but it’s been almost a decade, and part of me is ready to move on, but part of me is going to be very sad about it.” Read more & comment »

Most American TV shows have been hit badly by the recent writers strike, but ER may have managed to score a whole new season from the ordeal.

At the party to celebrate the shows 300th episode, executive producer John Wells announced that he was in the process of discussing a possible 15th season of the show with NBC, despite plans to end the show FOREVER after the 14th.

The reason for the new series is that only 11 of the 22 planned episodes for series 14 have been written. So the series will most likely end as abruptly as most others, but return for a shorter, but no doubt exciting, season 15!

Kovac is under pressure to take care of the overflow of cases before the ER shuts down for renovations. A lonely Sam befriends a terminally ill photojournalist with a negative outlook. Pratt gets a scare when his brother unexpectedly shows up in the ER. And the tension between Gates and his father reaches boiling point.

Channel 4, Monday 28 May 2007, 10.15pm