In what looks like the final nail in the coffin for NBC’s hour-long medical drama, Saving Hope has been pulled from the peacock’s televised line-up following the postponement of its final episodes. After bouncing around the network from Thursday nights to Saturdays, as well as postponing the final two episodes from September 1 and 8 to September 8 and 15, TVLine reports that NBC will instead air repeats of the equally ratings-challenged America’s Got Talent. The remaining two episodes of Hope will be placed online for fans of the show to get the closure they need on the series.
Proof that not all medical dramas work, Saving Hope was a Canadian-produced show surrounding the lives of a group of surgeons tasked with saving the life of their Chief of Surgery after he ends up comatose. Hope-Zion Hospital (see what they did there? They were saving hope literally and metaphorically!) is in shambles after the event, and the chief’s fiancee (also a surgeon because doctors only marry other doctors, obviously) must work together with the new-kid-in-town, hotshot surgeon to make it all right. But wait…TWIST! A Chief of Surgery like Charlie Harris doesn’t just sit on a bed naive to the struggles around him. Oh no! In fact, far from it: he explores the hospital in “spirit” form, unsure if he’s dead, alive, a ghost, a kumquat, or just his very hurt brain’s active imagination playing tricks on him.
And while it seems as though NBC will likely pass on a season two of the series, its Canadian brethren at CTV have already picked up a second season of the series. So, you can always move to Canada if you can’t go on not knowing the fate of Hope.
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