Elsewhere” has fallen victim to economic pressures. Not enough dollars, however, to keep the series alive for another year. But the series managed to survive for six years on a powerful drug called demographics: The show attracted a relatively small but highly desirable audience of young, affluent viewers, and that in turn attracted plenty of advertising dollars to NBC. Elsewhere"-a derisive nickname for the aging South Boston medical facility-was never healthy in the ratings. We always said: ‘That’s a tough question-well, good night!’ ”ĭespite its high standing among TV critics, “St. “We never answered any of the questions we posed. “I saw it as a show about people struggling to answer life’s ridiculous questions-sometimes they would do it in a comic way, sometimes they would do it in a serious way,” said Tom Fontana, one of the show’s core group of writers and producers, who served as a creative consultant this season. Elsewhere,” which established a defiant tradition of baiting the NBC censors, blurring the line between the real and the surreal, tantalizing the alert viewers with inside jokes and subtle references to literature, television and pop music lyrics, going precariously far out on a limb and then deliberately chopping it off. NBC Entertainment President Brandon Tartikoff is fond of defining quality television as something “that starts with low ratings and ends with a cat meowing"-a reference to programs produced by MTM Enterprises, which end with a kitten logo in a sly takeoff on MGM’s roaring lion.Īnd none of MTM’s shows better defined quality television than “St. I could have put in a sauna and a Jacuzzi, you know?” The last year, I put in a rug and a lamp. “Through six years, I never put anything in my dressing room.
Eligius Hospital’s cranky chief of surgery, Mark Craig. “The strange thing that occurs to me when thinking about the show was how temporary it seemed,” mused Begley, who spent the last six years matching wits-and losing-with William Daniels, who played St. ”Īnd the fat lady sings tonight: The last episode of “St. As Begley added wistfully, “It’s never over till it’s over-but I think in this case, it’s over. Elsewhere,” NBC’s darkly comic series about a financially strapped Boston hospital and its beleaguered staff, is dead.
“But I think now we’ve got the toe tag on, and we’re in the drawer, and it’s sealed and locked.” “I think there was a period when last rites were being performed when we could have rallied,” he said, his tone clinically matter-of-fact. Victor Erlich, offered the final diagnosis of his medical career. And I don’t think that set of circumstances will ever happen again. It was certainly something no other network would put up with. I didn't want to be just an actor.'" Several of the TV shows for which Launeville has directed episodes are members of the so-called "Tommy Westphall Universe.“St. Laneuville relates to Luther because 'we both aspired to other things and have moved on. who is not considered a sex symbol, for a black actor who is not considered a comedian, there is no future for me ,' Laneuville said in his office at the MTM complex in Studio City. During a November 1987 LA Times interview with Larry Kusnitt, Eric Laneuville said that he was then planning to transition from acting to directing "because of lingering typecasting problems that black actors face. Law, Midnight Caller, Doogie Howser, M.D., ER, Everybody Hates Chris, Girlfriends, Lost, CSI: NY, Grimm, Grey's Anatomy, NCIS: Los Angeles, Blue Bloods, Chicago Fire, and many more. Over the last four decades, he has directed hundreds of episodes of TV shows-including L.A. Elsewhere episode "After Dark" he went on to direct around twenty episodes over the show's run, and (as of 2021) is now one of television's most successful and dependable directors. In 1984, he was hired for his first directing job, the St. In his real life, during his time on the show, Laneuville was an actor who aspired to become a director. Elsewhere, Eric Laneuville played Luther Hawkins, an orderly who aspires to become a medical professional.
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