Network: CBS
Episodes: 16 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: September 23, 2011 — March 2, 2012
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Ehle, Julie Benz, Liam Aiken, Margo Martindale, Pablo Schreiber, Rachelle Lefevre, Afton Williamson.
TV show description:
Michael Holt (Patrick Wilson) is a gifted and very successful NY surgeon. He’s wrapped up in his materialistic world and he only takes care of clients who can afford him, the powerful and the wealthy. Though Michael has many things, he doesn’t exactly have much of a bedside manner. He’s also at that point in his life when he’s wondering if he made the right choices.
He bumps into his ex-wife Anna (Jennifer Ehle), a kind and beautiful physician — the love of his life — who he divorced a decade earlier. He lights up in spite of himself and the two have dinner together.
Michael has an offbeat sister, Christina (Julie Benz), who’s trying to keep things together for her teenage son, Milo (Liam Aiken). She’s thrilled that Michael has gotten together with Anna, saying, “When you were with her, is the only time you weren’t a total jerk.”
Michael later learns that, some time ago, Anna had been hit by an automobile and killed. She’s left behind a Bronx clinic that provides medical care to hundreds of people who couldn’t afford care otherwise. She appears to Michael again and even Michael’s efficient and overworked assistant, Rita (Margo Martindale), notices a change in him.
Anna asks him to visit the clinic to share her computer’s password with the staff. Visiting the clinic is like going to a different world for the upscale doctor. While there, Michael meets Autumn (Afton Williamson), a volunteer carrying on Anna’s work with the underprivileged. Seeing her compassion in action, Michael’s attitude toward serving the rich and poor is turned upside down, and he begins to see that there’s room in his life for everyone.
Episode 16 — In Case of Heart Failure
While attending an awards banquet, Michael reconnects with his old friend Gene – a photographer who recently found love while abroad in India. When Gene collapses on stage, Michael takes him back to Holt for treatment. As Michael struggles to find the source of Gene’s worsening fever, his new girlfriend butts heads with his overbearing but well-meaning mother as both women attempt to comfort the man they love.
At the clinic, a young woman with a broken toe reveals that her life was saved by a heart transplant six months ago. While tracking down her medical records, Kate learns something remarkable: the heart used to belong to Anna Paul. When the broken bone causes Fat Embolism Syndrome, a potentially fatal disease, it’s up to Michael to rush the patient back to Holt Neuro in order to save her life.
First aired: March 2, 2012.
Image courtesy CBS.
add my vote to restart the show again.
BIG MISTAKE CANCELING A GIFTED MAN I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE SHOW I AM A BIG FAN. I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE SHOW TO COME BACK. GIVE ME A BREAK NOT ALL OF US WANT TO SEE REALITY SHOWS WHERE IT SEEMS ALL PEOPLE DO IS SEE HOW BIG A FOOL THEY CAN MAKE OF THEIR SELVES.BOO!!!
I AGREE WITH ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WANT THIS SHOW BACK. I HAVE 2 COUSINS AND LIKE 4 CLOSE FRIENDS THAT WE WOULD WAIT EACH NIGHT = & CALL EA. OTHER THAT NIGHT (THE ONES THAT R RETIRED) AND WE WOULD MAKE OUR OWN STORY FOR THE FOLLOWING WEEK. THE SHOW WAS CLEAN-CUT, AND TOUCH SO MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND LIFE STORIES. WHY WOULD YOU CANCEL A SHOW THAT IS CLEAN AND WELL ACTED, I LOVE THE DOCTOR, THE NURSE, ALL OF THEM EVEN THE ONES THAT ONLY CAME 4 ONE SHOW. PLEASE, I’M 76 YRS. AND I COULD UNDERSTAND… Read more »
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please bring the show back. it was a great show……………..
We were counting on another season, one of best shows on TV, its been a long time since we planned an evening around watching a special show. so sorry its gone, another stupid mistake on the part of TV.!!!
One of the best shows on TV. Was looking forward to another season.
PLEASE BRING IT BACK
We have been watching for the return of this fantastic series. Please bring it back!!!!!
You finally get a good doctor show on the air and it gets canceled please being this back.
i agree laia it was a good show i loved patric wilson please reconsider and bring it back cbs
Why is it that all the good TV Shows are canceled. This was a great show. Loved it.
Don’t cancel this great show, one of the best on tv today!!!!
Do not cancel, great show!!
Please leave A Gifted Man on do not cancel. This is a wonderful so leave it on
Please do not cancel A Gifted Man. It is a wonderful show give it another season or three or four
You always take off the good show and leave the duty shows on. Bring back A Gifted Man