NBC Call’s Time Of Death On #Trauma

NBC Call’s Time Of Death On #Trauma – No New Episodes

Posted by David at 29 October, 2009, 12:00 pm

NBC has virtually declared Trauma, their new season medical drama about San Francisco Paramedics, as officially deceased. The network announced that they would not be ordering any additional episodes past the original 13 already produced and that there are no second season plans.

Derek Luke in Trauma When the show was first announced it was the recipient of skepticism, before the premiere it was the subject of industry leader criticism, and then it premiered with great fanfare but quickly came under the guns from pretty much everyone else… even Hitler hated Trauma.

I can’t say I blame NBC considering they pretty much listened to what the majority of our profession had to say about the show including the Association of Air Medical Services and the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians. So what this means is that after the 13 episodes are aired, Trauma will go to the archives just like Saved… and once again there will be no television show representing EMS on the air to the general public.

But is this a good thing?

I don’t think so. I also don’t think that the inaccuracy problem with Trauma was necessarily the fault of the writers either. I think we, as a profession, have to take ownership of the perception we provide to the public and Hollywood writers. Until we do that we will never see a true representation of EMS in entertainment.

To date, Bringing Out the Dead is the truest depiction of the industry out there. Considering that it takes place in the early to mid 1990’s during the crack wars in one of the roughest areas to work in NYC, I think it’s about time we got something that is a little more updated.

Hopefully we’ll start changing the perception others have of us ourselves and be a little less critical and more constructive the next time Hollywood tries to represent us.

Source: TV Series Finale and thanks to NKCoverGrrl for the heads up

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Wanda Timmerman

Enjoyed Trauma. First show to make me leave my CBS viewing habit. Then they yank it. Back to CBS I go.

Wanda Timmerman

NBC finally had a show that drug me away from my usually watched channel. Figures! People seem to forget, we watch TV to be mainly entertained, not educated. So back I go to CBS.