Network: TNT
Episodes: 10 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: February 4, 2013 — April 8, 2013
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Jamie Bamber, Jennifer Finnigan, Bill Irwin, Alfred Molina, Sarayu Rao, Ving Rhames, Keong Sim, and Emily Swallow.
TV show description:
This medical drama follows the staff of Chelsea General Hospital in Portland, Oregon as they push their abilities and confront their personal and professional failings.
Doctors face life-and-death decisions every day as they fight against often-impossible odds to save their patients. When things don’t go as they should, it’s up to their medical colleagues to determine what went wrong and what can be learned.
Every Monday, the doctors of Chelsea General must gather with their peers for a confidential review of complications and errors in patient care.
Leading the hospital staff are Doctor Harding Hooten (Alfred Molina) and Doctor Jorge Villanueva (Ving Rhames).
Hooten is the steely-eyed Chief of Staff, speaks softly but carries a massive stick. He was nicknamed “Hardly Human” long ago for his exacting, punishing ways during the weekly morbidity and mortality meetings.
Villanueva, known as El Gato, is a giant of a man. He is also perhaps the most celebrated trauma chief in the country — clearly the elephant in this circus. El Gato’s seat-of-the-pants diagnoses are the stuff of legend around Chelsea General.
Their cadre of medical talent includes:
Doctor Tyler Wison (Jamie Bamber), a hotshot neurosurgeon who has a well-earned god complex. Doctor Tina Ridgeway (Jennifer Finnigan), a compassionate neurosurgeon who’s willing to fight for cases that may seem like lost causes to others. Her home life is in turmoil so she finds refuge at the hospital.
Doctor Sung Park (Keong Sim) is a Korean-American and is abrupt socially and English-challenged. He’s also ambitious to the core with his searing intensity being palpable. Doctor Sydney Napur (Sarayu Rao) is a cardiothoracic surgeon who’s married to the job. A compulsive multi-tasker, she speaks quickly and takes absolutely no prisoners.
Doctor Buck Tierney (Bill Irwin) is the hospital’s Chief of Transplantation. A man driven to the point of bullish, he is least liked among the Chelsea General staff. Doctor Michelle Robidaux (Emily Swallow) is a twenty-something resident. Inexperienced yet eager, she is finding her footing among experienced giants.
Episode #10 — Family Ties
Hooten and Buck find themselves facing off in court against attorney Mitch Tompkins (guest Anthony Heald) after a grieving son refuses to comply with his mother’s final wishes.
Sydney’s outrage over the health of a morbidly obese 16-year-old boy further strains her relationship with Lieberman (guest Jonathan Silverman). And a seemingly harmless patient (guest Kenneth Mitchell) puts one of Chelsea General’s own in grave danger.
First aired: April 8, 2013.
What do you think? Do you like the Monday Mornings TV series? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for another season?
As a health care professional this was the best show ever. Still missing the shows..
This show and Ringer with Sarah Michelle Gellar were two of my favorite shows that were canceled after only one season. They weren’t even given a chance. And I was so mad. All I could think of was the garbage that gets renewed for 2 maybe three seasons. Along with the trashy reality shows that are a total waste of TV airspace. But they cancel shows that are very well written and acted without even giving them a chance. But what can you do? They will continue to shove crap like Vampire Dairies down our throats while canceling very well… Read more »
Monday Mornings was an excellent look into the emotional as well as the professional lives of a group of especially good medical doctors. Well written, well played, great entertainment….yet, in the infinite wisdom of the cancellation gods, this very good series was cancelled abruptly without a second thought as to who might really make up the audience. This was a HUGE mistake !!
Bring back Monday Mornings !!!
This was a great show! I loved it. Why was it cancelled? I wish they would bring it back. I waited for it for two years.
I think ‘Monday Mornings’ should still be on
Please bring back Monday Mornings
Thank you,
GAB
Please don’t cancel Monday Mornings I’m really starting to get to know the people and think it’s great.
Monday mornings is one of the best shows every written! It was thought provoking and inspired conversations. I nearly cried when it was cancelled
TNT You suck eggs…best actors ever….but you don’t do shows back to back; lack of episodes…we are no dummies…I hate your network…you do drama, from Dallas to Hawthorne to Southland…you can f-up shows
I loved this show. It should never have been canceled. This time they got it wrong.
They really screwed this show. Saw the first ep in Las Vegas and loved it. Then couldn’t find it again.
This was a good show, good writers with, even better actors. c’mon now~Jaime Bamber?!?!? You’ve got an actor of his quality and the show gets cancelled? Bamber is so well known and respected in the UK & AUSTRALIA and New Zealand. This show was cancelled and/or, misproduced by TNT’S poor production staff. Where was the advertising, the media blitz, damn……just the basic support. TV is getting better, but not because of TNT; that is for sure! Had this show been on any of the major cable players or even, Fox or BBC it would have been a success. Shame on… Read more »
Bring back Monday Mornings and SMASH. Dump the Bachelor/Bacheloretts a n d several e real more Reality Shows.
Liked show. Wish they would bring it back. Well written and acted. Lots of good plot potential
Get rid of the b*tchlor and b*tchlorette along with other stupid reality shows. Bring back Monday Mornings….best show ever. TV is turning into junk let keep the good shows. Great actors in this show, ditch stupid pretty little liers show…