
Tonight, Dr. Mark Greene returns to County General for a very special episode of
ER. Once ER's leading man, Anthony Edwards left the show in 2002 to pursue other opportunities but was persuaded to come back in this final season to help the show bid farewell.
Noah Wyle Says Clooney's Coming Back to ER George Clooney has been shooting down rumors of a return to ER for a few months now, but now he has former costar Noah Wyle to thank for bringing them up again. In next week's issue of TV Guide,Wyle tells columnist Will Keck that "From what I heard, George said, 'absolutely,' schedule permitting," about returning to the show.

George Clooney has been
shooting down rumors of a return to
ER for a few months now, but now he has former costar Noah Wyle to thank for bringing them up again.
In next week's issue of
TV Guide, Wyle tells columnist Will Keck that "From what I heard, George said, 'absolutely,' schedule permitting," about returning to the show. That's totally opposite from everything we've heard from Clooney's camp till now, though the producers have said they
hoped he would return.

The second we walk through the hospital doors, my palms start to sweat. Then I see the table stacked high with boxes of alcohol swabs, and then the rubber glove dispensers hanging from the walls, and then the blue-cloth-covered gurneys, and I swear my heart skips a beat. "This is definitely County General," someone says.

ER has been in NBC's Thursdays-at-10 time slot for so long (going on 15 years now!) that it's hard to imagine what could replace it when the show goes off the air next Spring. But now there's news of one possibility — and it comes from a familiar source: ER's own executive producer, John Wells.
Wells will be
producing a pilot for NBC called LAPD, which is already being considered as a potential replacement for ER on Thursday nights.