{"id":727563,"date":"2010-05-17T06:52:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T10:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=104599"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:34:52","slug":"nbc-pulls-plug-on-medical-dramas-mercy-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/727563","title":{"rendered":"NBC Pulls Plug On Medical Dramas \u201cMercy\u201d &amp; \u201cTrauma\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Mercy-Cancelled-500x374.jpg?resize=500%2C374\" 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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Trauma-NBC-Cancelled-500x299.jpg?resize=500%2C299\" 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":3497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33gT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829088,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727563\/revisions\/829088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}