![]() It was the top-ranked show during the 1995-96 season, the first of three times it has done that. "ER" has shown a remarkable staying power with viewers despite its cast changes and, arguably, a darkening tone. Before he sat down to talk at a Mexican restaurant on the edge of Hollywood recently, Edwards said he hadn't given an extended interview in about a year. The same thing can probably be said for Edwards. But I also think we've set a really good example of something that should be applauded." "I understand a degree of that underdog thing. "The critics feel that only by shepherding or promoting shows that people aren't watching, they're actually doing their jobs," Edwards said. "ER" was ignored when Electronic Media recently polled TV critics on their top 10 shows. Actors in newer shows, like James Gandolfini of "The Sopranos" and Martin Sheen of "The West Wing," get much more attention. He's never won an Emmy, and wasn't even nominated the last three years. Yet considering he's the lead actor in television's top-rated show, Edwards sometimes seems hidden in plain sight. "I wish that he were willing to continue for another seven years," Wells said. "ER" executive producer John Wells calls Edwards the show's "moral center." Greene save lives, make mistakes, get divorced, nurse his dying father, fall in love and ultimately confront his own mortality. Through the years, viewers have watched Dr. ![]() Greene's fictional life has become so familiar to millions of people during the past seven years that it was a jolt to consider the possibility of it ending.Īs revealed by The Associated Press in January, Anthony Edwards, the actor who portrays Greene, plans to leave the medical drama when his contract ends next year.īloodied patients will keep bursting through the doors of County General Hospital, but the emergency room will be different - much more so than when actors George Clooney, Sherry Stringfield and Julianna Margulies left before Edwards. Mark Greene's life flashed across the screen as the "ER" doctor lay on an operating table undergoing brain cancer surgery. LOS ANGELES - Like a surreal home movie, images of Dr. ![]()
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