"We've been given license and latitude to make some adjustments." CBS's sophomore drama, Scorpion will air at 9 p.m. "She was the hero we could root for," Tassler said of Supergirl. It's a dream cast." After CBS's football run is over, likely in early November, Supergirl will take over for those two comedies, which will move to Thursdays and kick off CBS's comedy block. Everybody responded to it," Nina Tassler, the chairman of CBS Entertainment, said at the press event. "Within a record amount of time, that was cast. again during the football season, serving as a lead-in for the new family comedy Life in Pieces. Speaking of dominance, the non-football jewel in CBS's crown, The Big Bang Theory, will kick things off on Monday nights at 8 p.m.
Moonves noted that CBS is bringing back five of its 2014-2015 freshman series as a sign of its youth, while Kahl said, "We have more Top 20 or Top 30 shows than ABC, NBC, or Fox.
With football broadcasts taking over Thursday nights, the network has a pre- and post-football schedule established, as it did during this current season.ĭuring the presentation, Kahl and CBS CEO Les Moonves insisted that the network is not as geriatric as the public - and its rivals - perceives it to be. In the fall, CBS's schedule is once again revolving around football, which was "a great boon for us this year," said Kelly Kahl, the network's head of scheduling, at CBS's annuval breakfast with press where its fall schedule is revealed. NBC will finish first among 18- to 49-year-olds this season, but that is solely because NBC broadcast this year's Super Bowl. If you want to hear more from the great woman, check out our chat with her below.CBS, the most-watched network, doesn't need to make any drastic changes to its steady lineup.
Marcia herself says Leanne is “calm…but she’s a bit of a cowboy too. I walked around hospitals at 2am and saw everyone in action, and the doctors were like the eye of the storm.”Īnd what about her character, Dr Leanne Rorish? She has an interesting and tragic back story, after her husband and two children were killed in a car accident by a drunk driver. There, it’s all ‘STAT! I NEED A BLOOD BAG!’ In real life, I was amazed with how the doctors were all so calm. I also have an anatomy app which helps tell me where everything is!” Sounds like a crash course before a Biology exam…Īnd in terms of maintaining the realism of what an emergency room is really like? “On TV, you see something different to real life. “But we had real doctors and nurses on set and people to help us with the dialogue. “The medical technicalities are so layered” she said. So, how did Marcia prepare for the role? With all the jargon involved in medical dramas, it can be hard to keep up, right? That’s what makes it stand out from other shows.” “At one point, one patient will have two minutes to live, another will have five minutes to live, while one patient will need two doctors to look after them. With all the patients often coming in at once, things get pretty intense. Whereas Grey’s Anatomy is more ‘light’, Code Black is more about ‘the ticking clock’.
So, it appears Code Black will strike the balance between the professional and personal side of doctors. It’s interesting how fast we connect to other people.” “At one moment, the doctors are like a machine, but they’re also trying to know as much as possible about the patient’s life.
“I saw that the doctors were so compassionate.” She explained. So what changed her mind? Well, after spending some time with real doctors and watching a documentary about the everyday pressures within a hospital environment, she was persuaded to give it a go. With 100s of extras and with your hands in sticky blood and constantly ‘saving lives’, it gets very stressful and I wasn’t sure if that was how I wanted to spend every day.” In fact, it was the intense nature of Code Black which led to her having reservations about the show at first. “It’s what it would be like to actually be an emergency room doctor…which is exhausting!” Code Black hits our screens this month and if you love hospital dramas, you’re in for a treat! We spoke to Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden about the show.Ĭode Black takes place in an understaffed hospital in Los Angeles, where four first-year residents and their colleagues have to battle constant streams of patients in a busy emergency room which doesn’t have sufficient resources.įor her, the striking thing about Code Black is the level of realism in the show.