When was er cancelled

That record was broken recently, as Grey's Anatomy aired its nd episode in February Want up-to-the-minute entertainment news and features? Type keyword s to search. Frederick M. Brown Getty Images. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Greene, on the other hand, died in season 8 after a battle with brain cancer.

John Carter Noah Wyle. As for Anthony Edwards, Mark Greene also returned in season 15, but in a flashback. Mark Green. Mark Greene In Season 8. Adrienne Tyler is a features writer for Screen Rant. She is an Audiovisual Communication graduate who wanted to be a filmmaker, but life had other plans and it turned out great.

Adrienne is very into films and she enjoys a bit of everything: from superhero films to heartbreaking dramas, to low-budget horror films. Crichton's time as a med student informed one of his most successful Hollywood ventures: ER, a medical procedural every bit as ubiquitous in the s as midriff tops and frosted tips.

Originally written as a feature film, the show's two hour pilot premiered in , heralding a new age of televised dramas in which patients were firmly reminded not to die on somebody's watch and 20 cc's of stuff were always needed STAT. For more than a decade, ER had all the hallmarks of an un-killable network television juggernaut. The series was responsible not only for the rise of George Clooney, but also, more pressingly, George Clooney Batman.

Then, in , the hammer fell. After 15 years of globetrotting medicinal high drama from an ensemble cast, this staple of American television was finally toast. As with any time that a show's plug gets pulled, the reasons for ER 's end vary from one interview to another, but the undeniable truth at the core of the cancellation was a simple one: The ratings just weren't what they used to be.

ER started in the mid-'90s, a point in time when network television was still, compared to today, a thing.