Characters may perish by ‘ER’ end
As “ER” marches to its 15th and final season, the body count will begin.
Executive producer John Wells says not all of the current cast members will be around for the series finale in 2009. He also could not deny that at least one current cast member will be killed off before the finale: “I don’t really want to answer that. Take that answer for what you will,” he said.
What if Wells does kill off someone?
“It would be someone whose story has played out,” he said.
As for series star Noah Wyle, Wells says, “We had always planned that the end of the series would involve Noah returning because he was so central as a new character at the very beginning, an entering character growing up in the ER. So we pulled out those old notes and came out with a lot of new things.”
The series is bringing aboard Angela Bassett as the new chief of the emergency room – but Wells says she isn’t being introduced for an eventual spin-off.
In fact, no “ER” spin-offs are in the works, but NBC has asked in the past, he said, “Sort of like how ‘CSI’ did ‘CSI: Miami.’ ”
Wells has had the finale thought out for years, and has even been taking notes for a while now.
“We had a series of the story lines and things that we wanted to do. I had sort of assumed at the end of Season 8 that that would be about it, but we were around Season 6. … So we’re going to be talking, I think, during the season about the condition of the health-care system because it will be our last time to really comment on it.”
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