March 11
2007
Eliza Dushku gets a new show.
She'll be playing the lead on the Fox pilot 'Nurses'.
Simon
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| tags: fox, eliza dushku, nurses
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It will be great to see Eliza on my TV again.
maje | March 11, 19:36 CET
yourlibrarian | March 11, 19:39 CET
Simon | March 11, 19:40 CET
[ edited by zeitgeist -we don't sign our posts- on 2007-03-12 14:35 ]
BlueEyedBrigadier | March 11, 20:23 CET
Emma Frost | March 11, 20:45 CET
Or its real name, "Grey's Anatomy, Jr."
[ edited by theonetruebix on 2007-03-12 02:11 ]
@theonetruebix | March 11, 21:11 CET
kballgetlost | March 11, 21:21 CET
That's the real reason this show is even being made, but let's see they decide not to include a McDreamy wanna-be.
impalergeneral | March 11, 21:31 CET
I'll be in my bunk. ;)
Craig Oxbrow | March 11, 21:46 CET
Rogue Slayer | March 11, 22:30 CET
IrrationaliTV | March 11, 22:31 CET
I'd like to see Eliza again, but I won't watch her in a medical drama. I'm not pre-judging, Nurses could turn out to be amazing (whether it gets picked up, or even only just in pilot form), it's just that I regard these things the same way I see lawyer shows, forensics, and most cop dramas that aren't The Shield.
[ edited by Kris on 2007-03-12 04:26 ]
Kris | March 11, 23:25 CET
Shiai | March 11, 23:30 CET
billz | March 12, 00:26 CET
Welcome to the HMO experience.
Shiai | March 12, 01:51 CET
giles (yes, it is my real name) | March 12, 02:23 CET
IrrationaliTV | March 12, 02:48 CET
If it doesn't get picked up, now Eliza's interested in doing a tv show again, and Joss has mentioned possibly getting back into tv. Hmmmm....
FaithFan | March 12, 02:49 CET
Shey | March 12, 03:07 CET
Simon | March 12, 03:17 CET
Is that right ? Only 1% of pilots even make it to air (and then whatever small proportion of that 1% get picked up) ? Not casting aspersions, just curious since that seems awfully low.
Still, i'll take a 1 in 100 chance of ED in a nurses uniform, longer shots have panned out ;).
(and hey, leave 'ER' alone ya wee scallywags. Sure it'd pretty much said all it had to say about 3-4 years ago but in its day, man, what a show. Totally redefined the hospital drama. Hell, it was one of the best dramas on TV full stop, hospital or otherwise IMO)
Saje | March 12, 05:33 CET
billz | March 12, 08:43 CET
('tinkers' didn't quite capture it and 'toe-rags' just seemed a bit OTT, y'know ?)
Saje | March 12, 09:06 CET
Personally, I'm a bit snobbish when it comes to entertainment. If it's not a scifi-fantasy genre show, I'm so not gonna be there. Just the way I am. A lot of shows tailor themselves to the "gotta be real life" crowd, but if there's no magic, I'm kinda, you know, "Bored Now."
Of course, if Elisa wanted to play Faith again, that would be a different story.
quantumac | March 12, 11:19 CET
billz | March 12, 12:18 CET
I sincerely hope to see more of her on my screen, even if it is a blatant Fox "Grey's" ripoff. (Word, bix.)
However, for those of you with the "naughty nurse" outfit fantasies, most nurses today wear the less-than-revealing scrubs. Lucky for her, Eliza can wear a paper bag and look amazing.
greentara | March 12, 12:43 CET
It seems that the networks are just trying to squeeze every drop of life of a genre du jour -- Situation Normal for televisionland.
Now, Heroes is another matter altogether. Are! Eye! Pee! Oh! Eff! Eff!
woo & hoo | March 12, 15:05 CET
Maybe in the US but over here they still wear the traditional PVC mini-dresses and high-heels (actually, despite my comment above, IMO nurses uniforms have always been pretty utilitarian and not particularly sexy or revealing, never really saw the appeal of the actual uniform. And no, Dr. Freud, my Mum being a former nurse has nothing to do with it ;).
However, greentara, in the words of Adam 'Mythbusters' Savage, "I reject your reality and substitute my own" ;).
woo & hoo, presumably you mean 'Rising Stars' ? IIRC JMS has said himself that he sees the parallels but is totally unbothered by them. If it doesn't bother the supposedly ripped-off creator then it doesn't bother me either (if it's the similarity of some of the powers to X-men abilities then I see your point but I also think the abilities featured so far in 'Heroes' are the first ones that would occur for mainstream appeal, basically because they're among the coolest i.e. flight, super-healing, invisibility, teleportation, telepathy etc.).
Besides, the basic idea may be less than totally original but, as with anything, it's the implementation that really matters and that's where 'Heroes' excels IMO. YMMV ;).
Saje | March 12, 15:41 CET
Best whedonesque comment ever! :)
Mort | March 12, 17:09 CET
Each major network orders about 30 or so shows to pilot each year. Only one third of them (or less) are ordered to series. Last year ABC and NBC ordered 10 new series. CBS and Fox ordered 7 each and CW only ordered 3.
Out of the 10 ABC ordered only 5 have survived. Out of the 7 Fox ordered only 1 is still viable and that is only because it just started a week or so ago.
So maybe the chances of Nurses getting ordered to series is somewhere around 30% and then it may have a 25% chance of living to February sweeps.
However you look at it, it is definitely a long shot.
IrrationaliTV | March 12, 17:51 CET
I win!
Craig Oxbrow | March 12, 17:59 CET
I watch Heroes, because I am a fan of the scifi/fantasy/superhero genres, and I know that my interest and support of shows/movies/merch helps to keep it coming (I'll watch pretty much anything they toss at me if I have the time and patience...I even watched Waterworld, Batman & Robin and like 20 minutes of SciFi's recent Gryphon -- not that Heroes is any way on the level of those stinkers!).
I also watch because Tim Sale's art is frackin awesome and I think the show overall has been executed pretty well so far. Except...Sylar is boring me...extragrande boring me.
What I do not like is when things that happen to become popular are described as innovative and original when they aren't entirely so, and when there are none props given to things that were by those that came after.
woo & hoo | March 12, 21:12 CET
Apart from that we're in total agreement woo & hoo (in fact i've said the same thing on this very board). I did find it a bit irritating when Tim Kring said he knew nothing about comics, thereby implying that 'Heroes' was something totally new instead of - like all creative endeavours - being built on the shoulder's of what went before, and the way the mainstream media have sometimes lauded it as being wholly original also irks a bit. As usual, comics just don't get no respect ;).
Saje | March 13, 07:36 CET
Also, I agree with you completely re: Heroes. Great show, irritating that the media is acting like it's never heard of the freaking X-Men.
[ edited by greentara on 2007-03-14 06:07 ]
greentara | March 14, 01:04 CET