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by Bob Sassone, posted Mar 30th 2010 4:01PM
You've probably seen the commercials for CBS' new medical drama 'Miami Medical.' That's the medical drama that isn't 'Three Rivers' and has The Rollings Stones' "19th Nervous Breakdown" as the promo theme. It premieres this Friday at 10PM, which pretty much means CBS cares about it as much as viewers are going to care about it, which is probably not very much (for the most part nowadays, Friday nights = death). The Hollywood Reporter thinks the same thing, and even says the show is "dead on arrival."
It stars Jeremy Northam as a mysterious doctor in charge of a medical facility in Miami, North Dakota. Just kidding! It's actually the one in Florida.
He heads a team of talented renegades, including Mike Vogel and Lana Parrilla, who have to handle tough cases and tough personal lives. Andre Braugher is also in it (in the first episode anyway), playing a stressed-out surgeon.
'Miami Medical' is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, but I'm not sure if a bunch of expensive explosions can save the show in the long run. With so many medical shows coming and going and more on the way this fall (and ones like 'Trauma' which has also had expensive episodes and stunts) and CBS putting this on at 10PM on a night a lot of people don't watch television, there's no way we'll see this on the fall schedule.
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