Oh let joy be unconfined! The dazzlingly fabulous George Clooney will reprise his role as Dr Doug Ross for the final episode of ER which will air in the US on April 2nd

The show will be an hour long “retrospective” and will feature old and new footage of George as Doug.

In case you’ve forgotten how magnificent he was in ER, here’s a clip to remind you. It’s the moment when he finds out that the love of his life Carol is engaged to someone else… Read more & comment »

The second episode of the much awaited – certainly by me – new season of ER began with Dr Morris introducing the new batch of interns to the ER. We also met ball-breaker Catherine Banfield – pictured above – the new chief of the ER which would’ve been Greg’s job had he not shuffled off the mortal coil last week.

Banfield is played by Oscar-nominated Angela Bassett but I have to say, I didn’t feel the love for her character at all. Dr Banfield was all suppressed emotions and fierce will of iron stuff which felt a bit trite and predictable, however, maybe I’ll warm to her before the series ends… Read more & comment »

ER star Noah Wyle, has said that the final season of the show will be ‘very exciting’ for the fans.

Wyle was interviewed at a Los Angeles to celebrate the forthcoming inaugration of Barack Obama, he said: “I’m just coming from work now and the scripts are excellent, and they’ve got quite a few of us old chickens (to) come home to roost.”

Noah plays the gorgeous John Carter on the show, he left during season 11 but is returning for a stint in this final series.

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Well, ER has often had me in tears in the past with its evocative and convincing drama and upset and the season 15 premiere last night was no different. Not only is this the final season of this fantastic show, it was also the last time we’ll see Greg Pratt, and that’s what made me cry.

The writers and cast of ER are masters at doing the dying in the trauma room routine and the death of Greg was a true marvel of tearjerking. For one thing, it was totally unexpected because – unlike my normal behaviour with US shows – I deliberately avoided looking at any spoilers, so when Greg was injured in the ambulance crash then seemed to have relatively minor injuries, for him to so rapidly decline and become brain stem dead was truly shocking. Read more & comment »

Classic medical drama series ER, from the pen of the late Michael Crichton, returns to More4 for its 15th – and final – season in January.

As the new series opens Abby awakes following the ambulance explosion and quickly rushes to check on the other victims despite her injuries. A mother and daughter are also rushed into the ER from the scene but Abby misdiagnoses the case. Meanwhile, Morris and Neela struggle to keep up with the number of casualties following the explosion.

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It’s a strange phenomenon the medical drama because as a genre, it’s one of the most successful and popular types of show you can get. If you’ve got blood, guts and medical staff, chances are you’ve got yourself a hit series.

Emergency Ward 10

Since TV began there’s been show after show based in either hospitals or Doctor’s surgeries. One of the earliest of these to be shown on UK television was Emergency Ward 10 which first aired in 1957 and ran for ten years. Set in the fictitious Oxbridge General Hospital, the show focused on the lives and loves of the medical staff and the pressure of their work, as well as the patient’s stories, and it’s a format that was to provide the blueprint for hundreds of other shows.

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ER stars have admitted that they have no idea if George Clooney will be reprising his role as Dr Doug Ross for the shows final episode.

“I have no idea,” said MSN quote British actress Parminder Nagra as saying. “I don’t think they would tell any of us if that was ever going to happen. It would all, I think, be undercover if it happened.”

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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