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- From: "Rose \"MotherFAQer\" Cooper" <cooper@acm.cse.msu.edu>
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- Subject: ER FAQ 5.00, Section 1: The Show (1/8)
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- ER FAQ 5.00: The Show
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- version of the FAQ.
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- MeMiceElfAnI Productions Copyright 1997-99 by Rose Cooper; content cannot
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- Last Updated: 11/27/98 by Rose "MotherFAQer" Cooper
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-
- SECTION ONE: THE SHOW
-
- 1.1 What is "ER"?
- "ER" is a weekly one-hour television drama on NBC that takes place
- in the emergency room of a Chicago hospital. The show`s stories focus
- primarily on the staff of the ER: doctors, nurses, medical students
- and assorted personnel. The stories secondarily deal with the medical
- problems of patients. "ER" is unlike most other medical dramas in that
- its emphasis is often on a very fast-paced style of action, typically
- when a patient or patient(s) is/are rushed into the emergency room for
- treatment. It does share some similarities with other medical dramas,
- however, particularly St. Elsewhere, in that stories in the lives of
- the main characters are told over the course of many episodes, rather
- than being self-contained to one episode.
-
- [Given the general direction that Season Four veered toward, it remains to
- be seen whether the above will still hold true for Season Five--and beyond...]
-
-
- 1.2 What does "ER" stand for?
- [Truth, Justice, And The American Way. Oh, sorry. That`s "CCH Pounder".
- But I digress...]
-
- Emergency Room. Not to be confused with "OR", which is
- Operating Room.
-
- [Or, for that matter, "E/R", which was inoperable. But I digress
- again...]
-
-
- 1.3 When does "ER" come on television?
-
- [Note on time zone abbreviations--
-
- "10E/9C/8M/7P" means: 10:00 Eastern
- 9:00 Central
- 8:00 Mountain
- 7:00 Pacific.]
-
-
- 1.31 American network television:
-
- "First-run" "ER" comes on Thursday nights at 10:00 p.m. Eastern
- and Pacific time, 9:00 p.m. Central and Mountain time, on NBC, the
- National Broadcasting Company. For the specific channel in your
- area, check local listings.
-
-
- 1.311 Syndicated cable television:
-
- On Sunday, September 6, 1998, 8pm Eastern, the US version
- of cable channel TNT <http://tnt.turner.com/series/er> (Turner
- Network Television) started broadcasting "ER" reruns, beginning,
- appropriately, with the 2-hour pilot, "24 Hours"; it was shown
- again at 5pm Eastern on September 7, followed by the next episode
- in the series, "Day One", at the regularly scheduled 7pm Eastern
- rerun slot. It is supposed to be shown in consecutive order every
- weekday (Monday-Friday) in that time period. Watch this space,
- FAQ section 5 <http://digiserve.com/er/erfaq5.html>, and the
- ER Episode List <http://digiserve.com/er/erlist.html#tnt>, for
- more details.
-
-
- 1.32 Satellite dishes:
-
- If you have a satellite dish and live in North America,
- you can watch "ER" at 10E/9C/8M/7P on Satcom C1 (also called F1),
- transponder 8. This is the NBC East Coast feed and is unscrambled.
- Those times also apply to WXIA (Galaxy 4, 22) and WHDH (Spacenet 4,
- 2); these channels are scrambled, however, and you must have a
- subscription with a dealer that provides them.
-
- "ER" also airs on the subscription channel KUSA (Satcom
- C1, 14) at 11E/10C/9M/8P; and on the subscription channel KNBC
- (Spacenet 4, 6) at 1:00AM-E/12C/11M/10P.
-
- All of the above are on Thursday nights, when NBC normally
- airs "ER". However, for weeks when a new episode is airing, you
- can see an early feed on Wednesday nights. It can be seen on
- Telstar 401, transponder 7, at 12:00PM-E/11:00PM-C/10M/9P. This
- version of the show is completely commercial free, and airs the
- full opening and closing (full-screen credits & no voice-over
- announcer), as opposed to the half-screen credits and voice-over
- that most NBC affiliates use.
-
- If you have Ku band capability, you can also watch ER on K2,
- transponder 1 at 10 PM E/9C/8M/7P, and on K2, transponder 3 at
- 1 AM E/12 Midnight C/11M/10P.
-
-
- *1.33 International television
-
- [NOTE: The information here is only as good (or bad) as the
- international ER viewers who notify me of schedule changes, make it.
- I will be glad to revise it when I get those viewers' email, but
- unless the information can be verified through "official" sources,
- the listings below will stand as written]:
-
-
- *CANADA
- "ER" is broadcast on the Canadian Televison Network (CTV)
- via affiliates throughout Canada at 10:00 pm on Thursday in all
- respective time zones.
-
- A French-language version of "ER" ("Salle d'urgence"),
- which is one season behind its English-language counterpart, is
- currently broadcast on the Quebec channel TQS on Sunday nights; as
- soon as the new episodes begin in September, it will be on Monday
- nights at 9:00 pm.
- -(Information courtesy Talitha Cumi).
-
- In Saskatchewan, CBS is rerunning ER on Saturdays and Sundays
- at 9:37 CST. [What a *weird* time to start]...According to a TV
- Times (the Canadian TV guide) schedule, this Saturday and Sunday bit
- will be a continuing thing. I am thrilled about this because we
- don't get TNT in Canada, and are missing out on the reruns during
- the week.
- -(Information courtesy Vanessa Rey).
-
- An addendum to the above, from Vanessa:
- "Uh-oh.
- I read the FAQ update today.....oops. The information on the FAQ
- in regards to the international ER showings in Canada is now
- incorrect because of the time change. Here's all I know:
-
- I am getting ER now Saturdays and Sundays. On Saturdays, we used
- to get ER at 5:00 P.M. Now, because of the time change we get it
- at 6:00 P.M. On Sundays, we get ER at 10:37, previously 9:37.
- When I last e-mailed you around the beginning of October, we
- were getting ER 9:37 on both Saturday and Sunday. This lasted
- for a few weeks, and then for some unknown reason, ER on
- Saturdays was bumped to 5:00 P.M. The Sunday time remained the
- same (9:37).
-
- Confusing, eh?
- [Nahhhh...I followed...every...word...of...thaaaaa...]
- Saskatchewanians (I luv that word) are the only people who do not
- switch their clocks back to Standard time. No one here changed
- their clocks on Saturday. This does affect our TV schedule.
- During Daylight Savings time, I get ER at 8:00 on NBC and at 9:00
- on CTV, but during standard time, I get ER on both NBC and CTV at
- 9:00.
-
- The way I look at it, during DST, American programs on American
- networks (NBC, CBS, ABC) come on an hour earlier. During ST, the
- come on one hour later. Canadian networks stay the same all year
- long. So, because CBS is an American network, all their programs
- are an hour later here.
-
- Because Saskatchewan is the only one to whom this applies to, the
- above info might not be that all that important for the FAQ. You
- will Definitely want to check with some official sources. A good
- one might be the TV Times website": <http://www.tvtimesonline.com>
-
- [Thanks Vanessa. I think.]
-
-
- *UK (SKY ONE AND CHANNEL 4)
- [NOTE: detailed UK-specific information is now available in the
- ERuk FAQ <http://freespace.virgin.net/e.griffiths/faq.html>, created
- and maintained by Ed Griffiths, my "UK Man On The Scene"]
-
- In England, ER can be seen on SKY One (satellite) on Thursdays
- at 10pm (Channel 4 is not currently showing repeats, but). According
- to both Katy Lindemann and Ed Griffiths, SKY One's Season Five premier
- "has been confirmed as 'end of October, beginning of November'."
- Though Ed reports "Channel 4 will not confirm schedules until 2 weeks
- in advance", both Ed and Katy suggest that the logical pattern should
- mean Season Five "will begin on Channel 4 at the beginning of January
- 1999"; "...as it has always gone out the first Wednesday after New Year
- before."
-
- *[Note: "Day For Knight", the 5th Season Premiere, will be shown
- 7th January, 1999 on SKY .]
-
- Check the SKY and Channel 4 UK schedules on the
- ER Episode List <http://www.digiserve.com/er/erlist.html#uk> regularly
- for up-to-date timelines.
- -(UK schedule courtesy Katy Lindemann).
-
- In Wales, "ER" airs at 10:30 on Wednesday nights on S4C.
-
-
- AUSTRALIA
- Australian television airs "ER" on Channel 9 on Thursdays
- at 9:30 pm. Their second season run appears to be about five
- episodes behind the U.S.
-
-
- LATIN AMERICA
- Some (possibly most) Latin American countries show a
- "ER" dubbed in Spanish on open-air television, and an English
- version with Spanish subtitles on cable (Sony).
-
- [NOTE: Since I have received conflicting information from multiple
- sources about "ER" in Latin American countries, and this is the
- only agreed-upon information, this is how I will leave it].
-
-
- *EUROPE
- German television is currently showing the second season
- of "ER" on a channel called Pro7. It airs Wednesdays at 8:15 pm.
- Pro7 is currently showing "ER" reruns in its original timeslot,
- which is unusual due to the competitive state of German
- primetime.
-
- Called "Urgences" in France, the French version of "ER"
- is shown at the rate of two episodes a week (!) on France 2
- every Sunday at 8:50 pm. This is also not the same dubbed
- version as the French Canadian version that airs in Canada.
- The third season has just ended on France 2; the fourth will
- be shown during 1998.
- -(Information courtesy Antonello Migliorini and Didier
- {aka Mash}).
-
- [A bit of a different take on the above]: it is written
- in the section International Television that the French dubbed
- version shown in France isn't the same shown in French Canada,
- but it is. The dubbing is made in France and there is only one
- version made in French, so that's the one we get here in Quebec.
- However, the title has been changed (it's called Urgences in
- France and Salle d'urgence in Quebec) because there was already
- a series called Urgence in Quebec. So the opening credits aren't
- exactly the same from France to French Canada, even if the dubbed
- version is the same.
- -(Information courtesy Talitha Cumi).
-
- [I understand now why Scott was hesitant on trying to keep up with
- international TV...]
-
- Iceland's RUV (National Television) shows "Bradavaktin" (ER)
- on Wednesdays at 10pm. The fourth season started on January 25.
- -(Information courtesy Antonello Migliorini).
-
- Ireland`s RTE shows "ER" on Mondays at 9:30 pm.
-
- TV3 Norway shows ER (called "Akutten") on Mondays at 9:30pm,
- starting from early 1998 with the fourth season, one episode per
- week. Now TV3 is showing reruns on Sunday late-afternoons
- -(Information courtesy Vala Olafs).
-
- TV3 Sweden <http://www.tv3.se> shows ER [called "Cityakuten"]
- reruns every weekday. New episodes (the middle of season 4) will start
- week 48.
- -(Information courtesy Johanna Theng).
-
- TV3 Denmark shows "Skadestuen" on Mondays too, at 8 pm,
- and as its scandinavian counterpart it will start on 1998 with the
- fourth season. Now it is showing reruns on Fridays at 10:30 pm.
- -(Information courtesy Antonello Migliorini).
-
- In Spain, "ER" is shown in TVE1 on Mondays at 9:45. TVE1
- is currently wrapping up broadcast of the first season.
-
- *Portugal is currently showing the third season of ER, which started
- on October 16th, on its main state channel, Radiotelevisao Portuguesa
- (RTP)-Channel 1. The Portuguese title is "Servico de Urgencia", all
- programs are subtitled and aired every Friday at about midnight.
- -(Information courtesy Isabel Fajardo).
-
- Polish television is showing the fourth season of this
- excellent show on a channel called Polsat. It airs Wednesdays at
- 9:00pm.
- -(Information courtesy Adas, "Polish fan of ER", and Agnieszka).
-
- In Finland, MTV3 will show the fourth season beginning
- Thursday 7th May, with no reruns. The fourth season finale should
- come out in early October.
- -(Information courtesy Simo Heiskanen).
-
- In Switzerland, "ER" is broadcast on two of the four
- national television stations. TSR (French-Swiss) shows two
- consecutive episodes of ER every Sunday at 8:00 pm. Schwiez 4
- (German-Swiss) shows one episode on Mondays at 7:55pm.
- (Schwiez 4 is about a season behind TSR.)
-
- Italy's RAIDUE is now showing season four, showing two
- episodes of ER per week on Thursdays at 8:50pm. It's called
- "E.R.: Medici in Prima Linea" ("E.R.: Frontline Doctors") and
- they show two episodes concurrently -(Information courtesy
- Antonello Migliorini and Federico "faith" RUSSO).
-
- Belgium`s Flemish-language channel VTM shows "ER" on
- Thursdays at 10:15pm. A Walloon (French-language) channel
- there recently ceased showing ER on Wednesdays at 9:00pm.
-
- Holland television airs a subtitled "ER" every Friday
- at 9:35pm, with the week`s repeat on Sundays at 7:00pm.
-
- "ER" is shown in Slovenia on POP TV, and airs every
- Friday at 8:00 pm.
-
- *"In Russia, 'ER' is currently shown on NTV channel at 22.45
- four times a week (they promise to show 2nd and 3rd season; 1st has
- been shown a year ago)."
- -(Information courtesy Mikhail E. Veselov).
-
-
- JAPAN
- Japan`s NHK began showing "ER" in April `96. It airs
- every Monday at 11:00 pm.
-
-
- ELSEWHERE
- In the Philipines, "ER" is shown on Saturdays at 8:00 pm.
- The episodes there are roughly three months behind.
-
- In Hong Kong, "ER" airs every Tuesday at 9:30pm
- -(Information courtesy Karen Lee).
-
- In Israel, "ER" airs Sundays at 9:10pm on cable channel 3.
- -(Information courtesy Shlomi Codish, MD).
-
- In Taiwan, the CTS Channel shows "ER" on Sundays at 4:30pm.
-
- Singapore television airs "ER" every Tuesday at 9:30pm and
- is currently broadcasting the fourth season.
- -(Information courtesy Corrine Hoo)
-
- In Kuwait, "ER" can be viewed on the ORBIT Sattelite Network
- <http://www.orbit.net> on the channel "America Plus", which is
- currently broadcasting the third season..
- -(Information courtesy Fares)
-
-
- 1.4 Who produces the show?
-
- Created by: Michael Crichton
- Executive producers: Michael Crichton, John Wells, Lydia
- Woodward
- Co-executive producer: Carol Flint
- Supervising producer: Paul Manning
- Co-producers: Neal Baer, Wendy Spence, Lance Gentile
- Produced by: Christopher Chulack
- Staff writers: Jason Cahill and Samantha Corbin
- Unit production manager: Michael Salamunovich
- Medical consultant: Lance Gentile
- Technical Advisor: Dr. Joe Sachs and Dr. Fred Einesman
- Director of photography: Richard Thorpe
- Film editors: Randy Morgan, Jacque Toberen, Kevin Casey
- Production design: Ivo Cristante
- Produced by: Constant c Productions and Amblin Television in
- association with Warner Bros. Television
-
- (from the show`s web page)
-
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