NBC Wednesday 8pm
	debuts Wednesday, September 23, 8pm
	concept from From creator/executive producer Liz Heldens (NBC's Friday Night Lights), executive producers Gretchen Berg & Aaron Harberts (Pushing Daisies) and Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun comes Mercy, a new medical drama about the lives of the people who work at Mercy Hospital seen through the eyes of those who know it best - its nurses. Nurse Veronica Callahan (Taylor Schilling, Dark Matter) has just returned to Mercy Hospital from a tour in Iraq and knows more about medicine than all of the residents combined. Together with fellow nurses Sonia Jimenez (Jaime Lee Kirchner, Rescue Me), who turns the heads of everyone in the hospital and Chloe Payne (Michelle Trachtenberg, Gossip Girl), a naïve newcomer who learns to deal with the difficulties of working in a challenging and sometimes unsettling profession, they navigate the daily traumas and social landmines of life and love both inside the hospital and out in the real world.  stars Taylor Schilling (Dark Matter), James Tupper (Men in Trees), Diego Klattenhoff (Supernatural), Guillermo Diaz (Weeds), James Le Gros (Ally McBeal) producers Liz Heldens (Friday Night Lights), Gretchen Berg & Aaron Harberts (Pushing Daisies), Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun studio BermanBraun, Universal Media Studios

my take It's about who really runs the hospital, the nurses. At first glance, it looks like it could take over the NBC stethoscope from the now-departed ER, but so far early word is not entirely positive. Taylor Schilling as Veronica Callahan seems very strong and very likable. As with a few new shows this year, you'll recognize many faces and wonder where you know them from. It had been slated to bow midseason, but after the real-life tragedy and medical problems on Parenthood, Mercy got the call. It might get confused with NBC's other medical drama, Trauma. I'm looking forward to seeing NBC stick with this and not mess it up.

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