E.R. TV Show
Show Important Facts:
- Premise: Focused on the lives of the emergency room doctors and nurses working in the fictional County General Hospital in Chicago.
- Genre: Medical drama
- Created by: Michael Crichton
- Original Run: 15 seasons from 1994-2009 on NBC
- Setting: Chicago, centered around the fast-paced emergency room at the hospital. Also showed personal lives outside work.
- Style: Quick-paced, chaotic action following medical crises. Handheld cameras and more frantic editing style.
- Awards: Widely credited with popularizing modern medical dramas. Won 23 Primetime Emmy Awards including Outstanding Drama.
- Impact: Launched careers of major stars like George Clooney. Created a number of successful doctor characters on TV.
- Where to Watch: Streaming on Hulu. Reruns have aired frequently on cable TV.
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Plot: Michael Crichton has created a medical drama that chronicles life and death in a Chicago hospital emergency room. Each episode tells the tale of another day in the ER, from the exciting to the mundane, and the joyous to the heart-rending. Frenetic pacing, interwoven plot lines, and emotional rollercoastering is used to attempt to accurately depict the stressful environment found there. This show even portrays the plight of medical students in their quest to become physicians.
Information
Runtime: 44 min
Seasons: 15
Genre: Drama, Romance
Awards: Won 23 Primetime Emmys. 158 wins & 370 nominations total
Writer: Michael Crichton
Actors: Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Julianna Margulies
Language: English
Country: United States
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