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?
This is one of the best TV shows of all-time. Better than Dallas (I hate to admit.) I just cannot believe it has been cancelled. What is wrong with you people? Not enough boobs popping out of blouses, or bad language? Not all of America is simple-minded. Please bring this show back.
I knew it was too good to be true. I finally found a show that was worth the crazy amount I at for cable and they snatch it away. How can we petition the powers that be to get this well deserved show back on?
What a terrible shame a well written and acted show like Monday Mornings was cancelled. Though I am hardly surprised. It seems we are destined to make television a true vast wast land of reality television which have people in it, that the only dialog they can muster are profanity and the F Bomb that is constantly bleeped out .
The fact that their seems to be a growing audience for this reality tv trash is something I find truly scary. And that the networks will not give quality shows a chance to gain an audience is even more troubling.
I love this show, please – please bring it back! Unexpected casting! Great performances! Far better than ER, which I quit watching years before it went off.
One of the most enjoyable and different shows on TV. An absolute favorite. So much garbage on and they cancel a show that lets you exercise your brain and deliver an entirely new concept . I do hope they bring it back.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE BRING BACK THIS WONDERFUL SHOW.
This was a superb drama with a lot of humor injected at just the right time. Cannot convey how hard it is to believe this was canceled.
I am so upset this show has been cancelled. My boyfriend and I enjoyed this show very much and were extremely excited for the season 2. Hopefully something can be done to bring it back .
Best hospital show since ER
Monday Morning was an excellent show and should be brought back. I don’t understand
why networks cancel excellent shows and insist on airing “reality tv”. I don’t know about
how anyone else feels, but with the world in the situation that it is in I would rather watch good dramas on tv as a repast from my daily life thanwatch how other people live their lives (and some badly) reminding me how bad the world is getting. Bring on the fiction…..non-fiction is a drag.
Bill Irwin’s character Buck Tierney is my favorite. Least liked of the staff, why?, because he seems to lack compassion towards the people who are family members of recently departed loved ones. Transplant surgeons are working under the gun, they have to get the organs out of the dead and into the living before cell degeneration occurs, no time to consider feelings. Jorge Villaneuva nick named el Gato,which I believe means big cat is more considerate, but no less passionate, I remember the episode where the teenage girl had hemorrhaging around the lungs I believe, could not have been the… Read more »
My wife and I liked the show and hope it comes back. It was as good or better than ER.
I also think the show was brilliantly written and the acting was superb. I hope you will bring it back on. Surely, they could cancel a pawn shop, towing, gator or turtle man program to make room for a good show.
Considering Cable already has Pawn Stars and Hardcore Pawn, who needs Pawn Shop, then you have those various versions of Real ROFLAO Wives, talk about completely unrealistic, to me all Reality television only appeal to those who loathe their own lives, I’ll admit I do, but not going to buy into television shows that in the scheme of things have nothing to do with the real world, in many ways fiction is more real than those allegedly real reality shows, fans!, get a tight grasp on.
I, too, think this was a brilliant medical-based show! It was not only informative but it portrayed a thought-provoking and highly-ethical-standard way of thinking for medical professionals…smugness brought into focus and insecurity given reinforcement. I looked forward to each episode and the lessons/considerations presented. I hope that some discerning network will add it to its lineup…PLEASE!!!!!!!
I thought the show was brilliant . Excellent actors. Very good writers. I wish it would come back on.