The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has posted part 2 of their conversation with “Three Rivers” creator/executive producer Carol Barbee.
“There’s a scene where Andy is paged to come to the ER and there’s a guy from the neighborhood — Eddie, a working-class guy — who got in a bar fight and figured if he asked fro Andy he’d get seen sooner,” Barbee recalled. “It was a wonderful scene that gave a sense of Andy’s connection to Pittsburgh and this one neighborhood. We cast a guy from Pittsburgh and he did the whole Yinzer accent and he was hilarious, doing the whole Yinzer thing. But once we got into editing we found it slowed the pilot down.”
You can read part 1 and part 2 of the article here.
TV Squad previews CBS’s new shows
Three Rivers (Sunday at 9:00PM ET)
Premise of the screener: Dr. Andy Yablonski is a dedicated doctor, the leader of the team of surgeons at Three Rivers Center for Transplant Medicine, a prestigious Pittsburgh hospital that specializes in transplants. Working against the clock to save patients, Three Rivers explores not only the doctor’s trials, but the lives of organ donors and recipients of the organs, often dealing with questions of ethics and efficacy.
Allison says: Alex O’Loughlin is the centerpiece of Three Rivers, and if fans feel that CBS didn’t come through for the star with Moonlight, the network has made every effort to give him a success with this new medical drama. The show is not edgy or caustic in the style of House or Nurse Jackie. Three Rivers is just the opposite. It’s earnest and contemplative. It poses ethical questions about transplants, giving the viewpoints of those donating organs as well as those receiving the spare parts. While there’s some mention of Dr. Andy’s troubled home life in the screener (he’s living in a motel instead of his house), the focus of the show is the hospital, the patients and the life or death race to get the transplants done. Considering the quality of this initial offering, as well as the prime Sunday time slot, Three Rivers will have a solid send-off and could very well be an early hit.
Source: TV Squad