{"id":566440,"date":"2010-05-17T06:52:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T10:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=104599"},"modified":"2010-05-17T06:52:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T10:52:20","slug":"nbc-pulls-plug-on-medical-dramas-%e2%80%9cmercy%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%9ctrauma%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566440","title":{"rendered":"NBC Pulls Plug On Medical Dramas \u201cMercy\u201d &amp; \u201cTrauma\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Mercy-Cancelled-500x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mercy Cancelled\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-104600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tough time to be an NBC medical drama: <em>Mercy<\/em> and <em>Trauma<\/em> have been taken off life support. Neither of NBC&#8217;s freshman hospital-themed series will be returning to the air next fall.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-104599\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Trauma-NBC-Cancelled-500x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Trauma NBC Cancelled\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-104601\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Mercy<\/em>, which starred Michelle Trachtenberg as a nurse and <em>Dawson Creek&#8217;s<\/em> James Van Der Beek as a womanizing MD, has been canned by NBC chiefs after just one season.<\/p>\n<p><em>Trauma<\/em> has also been scrapped ahead of a second season.  The show about a group of paramedics in San Francisco was actually booted earlier this season, but NBC decided to order additional episodes of the series when it became clear that <em>The Jay Leno Show<\/em> was destined to be a ratings disaster.<\/p>\n<p><em>Trauma&#8217;s<\/em> last new episode brought in 4.3 million viewers, while <em>Mercy<\/em> has averaged around 6 million viewers &#8212; though ratings have been steadily declining for the struggling Wednesday night drama all season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tough time to be an NBC medical drama: Mercy and Trauma have been taken off life support. Neither of NBC&#8217;s freshman hospital-themed series will be returning to the air next fall. Mercy, which starred Michelle Trachtenberg as a nurse and Dawson Creek&#8217;s James Van Der Beek as a womanizing MD, has been canned by NBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}