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Ted Koppel Quits ABC!! Noah Wylie To Do EightERs In Seasons 12 & 13!!

Published at:  Apr 01, 2005 1:26:36 AM CST

SPOILER ALERT !!

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Koppel quits at the end of the year. Scuttlebutt has it ABC is engineering major changes for the “Nightline” timeslot, and the newsman didn’t care to participate.



Wyle was always expected to bolt “ER” at the end of the season. Beware invisotext spoiler: (His character returns to Thandie Newton’s in the season finale.) The big news is Dr. John Carter will still turn up for eight episodes spread out over the 12th and 13th seasons.











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  • Apr 01, 2005 1:36:57 AM CST

    I thought this was supposed to be ER's last year?

    by monkey butler

    Guess I was wrong.

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  • Apr 01, 2005 1:37:49 AM CST

    Oh, yeah, and

    by monkey butler

    "Marge, I think I'm starting to hate Ted Koppel! No, wait, I find him informative and witty. 'Night."

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  • Apr 01, 2005 1:54:28 AM CST

    And also, Mitch Hedberg has died of a heart attack at the age of

    by the garbage man

    ...so there's THAT.

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  • Were a bit behind in the UK and ER isn't quite BT worthy....

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  • Apr 01, 2005 2:19:36 AM CST

    RIP Hedberg. God speed. How come a comedic genius like Hedberg g

    by grabthars_hammer

  • Apr 01, 2005 2:58:21 AM CST

    Finally the old fossils are fading away...who's left? Fidel Cast

    by orionsangels

    Making way for the next generation, who grew up with video games and accepts them as adult entertainment. Miss ignorant hillary fucking clinton! do your reasearch before you make statements like, "GTA3 a game where the goal is to run over people and have sex with whores" Hey O'reilly before you say rap music is all bitch bitch whore whore. How bout opening your ears and listening. You freakin robot drones. The world is so simple to these people. cartoons are for childrens, comics are for kids. they always will be right? NO! move along fossils

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  • Apr 01, 2005 3:54:00 AM CST

    Translation: Time to bring in the Propoganda Actors

    by zerocorpse

    Journalists are a dying breed. What we've got now are sensationalists who spout propoganda and fear the truth. I miss Walter Cronkite, and he was a right bastard sometimes!

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  • Apr 01, 2005 3:57:55 AM CST

    Looks like we had a malfunction with the "Invisotext"?

    by john anderton

  • Apr 01, 2005 4:01:29 AM CST

    PS: I also decry the fall of investigative journalism

    by john anderton

    The "journalists" on today's news have no idea what "hard" news is. It's a bygone era when newscasters would actually explain issues and dig into the truth, rather than modern newscasting, babbling off the party line (FOX) or tripping over themselves (CBS).

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  • Apr 01, 2005 4:35:34 AM CST

    He's suffering from Koppel Tunnel Syndrome

    by eugene o

    Eh...that's all I got.

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  • Apr 01, 2005 4:39:41 AM CST

    ER...

    by baj24

    Will be around for atleast 2 more seasons. Personally, I think the show has been medicore for years now and they should let it die with atleast a little bit of dignity. Just like the networks to bleed something dry.

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  • Apr 01, 2005 5:17:03 AM CST

    ER was always supposed to be Carter's show...

    by sleazyg.

    ...and end with his character's arc. He was supposed to start as a wet-behind-the-ears rookie, screw up, learn some lessons, make his way to the top, and start running the show. Then things would end. It was a good plan, and one they could justify taking a dozen years. Now they're just getting greedy. Eight episodes in two years doesn't cut it, and neither does going back to Thandie--the relationship never had any real heft. It was too out of left field, too insubstantial. They should've crammed all eight of his episodes into next season and then bowed out gracefully while that was still an option.

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  • Apr 01, 2005 9:08:07 AM CST

    What th--? ER is still on?!?

    by uncle stan

  • Apr 01, 2005 10:24:47 AM CST

    koppel quits abc and wyle does more er ep's

    by dr.bulber

    awesome lumping.

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  • Apr 01, 2005 12:21:22 PM CST

    Yeah, what's the connection

    by timbenzedrine

    r can distinguish between news and entertainment.

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  • Apr 01, 2005 12:26:53 PM CST

    Shit, what happened to my post?

    by timbenzedrine

    What I meant to say: Except to comment that we can no longer distinguish between news and entertainment. --sorry.

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  • Apr 01, 2005 1:07:47 PM CST

    ER

    by flem_snopes

    Is still better than 90 percent of TV. Most of the characters are really engaging.

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  • Apr 01, 2005 5:21:55 PM CST

    Best Part of ER

    by itchy

    Linda Cardellini. And her rack. She's really, really cute. And is a pretty decent actress, too. And she has a nice rack. Other than that, I agree - ER is still in the top 10% of shows. Well produced, well acted, and reasonably fresh stories, even after a decade.

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  • Apr 02, 2005 9:31:53 AM CST

    Okay ... have at it

    by itchy

    Tell me what's better than ER. If you want to count cable shows as part of the sample population, for every "Carnivale" or "Battlestar Galactica" show you count, you also have to factor in 78 hours of Trading Spaces and its varients, every piece of shit on the Oxygen Network and the 4 or 5 hillbilly motorsports channels out there. Face it, there ain't much good out there, and ER shines by comparison.

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  • Apr 02, 2005 9:04:02 PM CST

    90% of everthing is crap

    by the g-man

    Therefore, saying "ER" (or "the Simpsons" for that matter) is "better than 90% of TV" is simply saying it is marginally better than crap.

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  • Apr 02, 2005 9:28:35 PM CST

    Marg Helgenberger died at age 37???

    by i dunno

    I never watched CSI but she was hot in China Beach. Thought she was older than 37 though. Damn.

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  • Apr 02, 2005 9:28:59 PM CST

    note to angry teenages: Not everything is crap.

    by tall_boy

    Thank you, come again.

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