Three Rivers starts Oct 4. Sunday after The Amazing Race on CBS
starts hottie Alex O'Laughlin... former Vampire
About organ transplant. hmmm
starts hottie Alex O'Laughlin... former Vampire
About organ transplant. hmmm
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Three Rivers=one step out the door?
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Posts: 6147 (09/28/09 3:28 PM) Registered User |
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robbiefan |
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Posts: 5443 (09/28/09 4:22 PM) Registered user |
I'm really loving those tight scrubs they have on. Yum!
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Posts: 778 (10/02/09 11:04 PM) Registered User |
I'm guessing this show, The Forgotten and Trauma will all be canceled soon.
Three Rivers -- TV Review
"Three Rivers"
Bottom Line: If it only had a brain.
Three Rivers Hospital is a really, really nice place. In this Pittsburgh medical center -- all natural wood and hi-tech screens --
everyone works as a team, residents are cheery and a tad mischievous, and doctors are re-elevated to sainthood, sunlight shining beatifically on their
concerned, compassionate faces. Marcus Welby lives.
And why not? The medical profession has taken a beatdown this season thanks to such shows as TNT's "Hawthorne" and NBC's "Mercy." So perhaps a segment of CBS' audience will enjoy the sedative-like effects of "Three Rivers," which injects sincerity and competence back into the profession with such unabashed ease that it's possible to overlook that this is utter drivel. "Rivers" revolves around the doctors, donors and recipients of transplants, with special emphasis (at least in the pilot) on aforementioned well-lit surgeon Andy Yablonsky (Alex O'Loughlin, looking like Zach Braff and Noah Wyle's love child). He and his cohorts, including Alfre Woodard as the hospital administrator, are all earnest and squishy, getting involved in everything from a passed-out pregnant woman to an uninsured walk-in who insists on speaking only to Yablonsky. All of which is soporific -- at least until the transplant engine revs up and the plot's urgency raises ethical dilemmas: Should a heart transplant go to a possibly brain-damaged patient? Just how should one approach grieving family members for donations and not seem like a circling vulture? One of those questions gets answered; the other, not so much. But what's even less-well resolved is the fantasy element of this show. Yes, it is well-made and even sporadically compelling, but it's hard to ignore that it has no basis in the real world. A walk-in uninsured patient who gets immediate top-notch care with barely a nod to how it'll be paid for? In your dreams. But maybe that's the point of "Rivers": It's a dream state. Full of multiple plasma screens and supercool monitor graphics and apparently limitless resources, it gives TV audiences a glimpse of what a well-financed health-care system looks like. Unfortunately, it, like Three Rivers, remains fictional. Airdate: 9-10 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 4 (CBS) Production: CBS Television Studios Cast: Alex O'Loughlin, Katherine Moennig, Daniel Henney, Christopher J. Hanke, Alfre Woodard, Justina Machado Executive producers: Carol Barbee, David Amann, Ted Gold Creator-writer: Carol Barbee Director: Rob Bailey Costume designer: Rachel Sage Kunin Casting: Deb Aquila, Tricia Wood, Jen Smith, Erin Toner |
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Posts: 1004 (10/02/09 11:36 PM) Registered user |
I have no interest in this show at all...but I love Alex O'Loughlin and feel that I should watch because of him. I wish he was still Mick St. John. Sigh.
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MsJulieR |
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Posts: 6167 (10/03/09 11:14 AM) Registered User |
see it's going up against Desperate Housewives and NFL(except on West Coast ..against Monk re-run |
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Posts: 20859 (10/03/09 11:27 AM) OMEDETO, CATHY!! |
Desperate Housewives <333333333
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VolumeOn |
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Posts: 1360 (10/03/09 5:08 PM) Registered user |
The previews really look interesting, but I just can't see adding yet another show to my DVR. I watch way too much as it is.
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Posts: 12015 (10/04/09 8:37 PM) Registered user |
This show sucks donkey balls. Slow, horrible acting, horrible writing, blech.
I give it two more weeks and it'll be gone. |
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NickF227 |
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Posts: 12173 (10/04/09 8:47 PM) |
I watched it because its there...
All the technicolor and futuristic control centers makes it seem like it should go fast but its SO. DAMN.SLOW. |
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jellloshot |
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Posts: 1008 (10/04/09 9:49 PM) Registered user |
Yeah, it kinda sucked. I will try again next week tho since I don't watch DH anymore and it's the only thing on.
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shadowdiana |
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Posts: 3952 (10/04/09 11:41 PM) MESS member |
These medical shows always lose me when they pull some unrealistic carp.... like a heart transplant waking up looking beautiful, door to her room wide open....
What carp. |
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cginspace |
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Posts: 9232 (10/05/09 12:09 AM) Registered user |
Alfre Woodard-Terrif actress.
Show- ick. |
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Posts: 2393 (10/05/09 12:40 AM) Registered User |
Good thing they took that baby out twelve weeks early because it would have been huge if it was full term. I also want to know how they get pictures of the
patients up that fast. I could understand if they were bad pictures but they are nice head shots like they have a photo shoot as they are being admitted.
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lilnubber |
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Posts: 12018 (10/05/09 5:08 AM) Registered user |
Yep, that baby was huge!
And they oxygen on the Ethiopian dude and had him in a hospital room/bed before they even decided they would do a heart transplant and before there was ever a donor. I won't watch this piece of shit again. |
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MsJulieR |
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Posts: 6173 (10/05/09 7:59 AM) Registered User |
10 lb Preemie |
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christy1018 |
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Posts: 5313 (10/05/09 10:27 AM) Registered User |
I had some scheduling conflicts and wasn't able to DVR this show. I wanted to watch so before going online to watch it, I came here.
Good thing I did! I won't waste my time.... |
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Posts: 1238 (10/05/09 1:28 PM) |
MsJulieR wrote:No joke.....my son was born at 36 weeks and weighed 10 lb 11 oz. I was diabetic. He was in NICU for 9 days because he was a preemie despite his size. That was almost 17 years ago. |
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Posts: 17898 (10/06/09 1:29 AM) Registered user |
I watched this show because again, I was taping over in case football screwed up The Amazing Race. Turns out, if you suspend belief some what (like the HUGE
C-section premie, and admitting a non-citizen without insurance who needs a heart transplant), it isn't a bad show. I don't watch football and never
have watched desparate housewives, so it'll do for a Sunday night show.
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Posts: 22002 (10/06/09 1:55 AM) Registered user |
Remember the other CBS medical flop Three Pounds that I predicted would last three episodes - and was right...
I am sensing a trend. |
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MsJulieR |
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Posts: 6204 (10/11/09 11:01 PM) Registered User |
I guess they will always have problems getting the organs
liked the angle where the donor was a murderer and the cops wanted his body..HUH?? and the damaged organ thing is in use. On the news where they take less that perfect hearts for transplant |
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jellloshot |
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Posts: 1015 (10/12/09 11:51 AM) Registered user |
hmmm...I tried to watch last night but couldn't find it. Listing said Three Rivers but the Amazing Race was what was on.
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