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It was another great Tuesday for TV doctors

There was a brief time when Thursdays were overloaded with great medical dramas. “ER” and “Chicago Hope” collided.
And now? Tuesdays are the time for very good – and, at times, great – ones.
Last week (Oct. 25), it was “The Resident” with one of its best episodes, complete with a wedding and a crisis. This week (Nov. 1), “New Amsterdam” (shown here) soars.
The two don’t directly compete anyway; “Resident” is usually 8 p.m. on Fox, “New Amsterdam” is 10 p.m. on NBC. That’s especially true this week, because the World Series has taken over Fox; “Resident” fans might seek out “New Amsterdam” to fill their no-doctors-tonight void. Read more…

By Mike Hughes / October 31, 2022
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At last, she’s a doctor (sort of)

Sophia Bush’s parents can relax now. Their daughter is finally a doctor, as they’d hoped.
Well, at least she’s convincing as a fake doctor. She stars in “Good Sam” – debuting at 10 p.m. Wednesday (Jan. 5) on CBS – and rattles off the proper tongue-twisters.
There she is, saying “pericardiocentesis” and “superficial venous thrombosis” and such. “I love it … I’m actually living a dream,” Bush (shown here) said, in a virtual conference with the Television Critics Association.
Or her parents’ dream. As “the daughter of an immigrant, … your options are really: You’re a doctor or a lawyer, a lawyer or a doctor,” she said. Read more…

By Mike Hughes / December 29, 2021