News: New Medical Drama "Chelsea General" Coming from TNT

David E. Kelley - Photo by E. Charbonneau/WireImage.com

You won’t believe who is behind TNT’s new medical drama Chelsea General — CNN chief medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta! Well, he along with award-winning producer David E. Kelley of Ally McBeal and Chicago Hope fame. If that’s not a winning combination, I don’t know what is. Gupta’s upcoming novel “Monday Mornings,” to be published in March 2012, is the basis for the new show, with Kelley penning the pilot script.

The show will revolve around the morbidity and mortality meetings doctors typically attend with their peers to review any complications and errors in patient care each week so they can come to terms with mistakes and try to learn from them. . It will follow the lives of five surgeons “as they push the limits of their abilities and confront their personal and professional feelings,” according to TNT.

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According to Michael Wright, Executive Vice President, Head of Programming for TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies,
“Chelsea General promises to be a smart, witty and extremely powerful medical drama, the kind of series David E. Kelley is renowned for making. We look forward to working with David and Sanjay in bringing the doctors’ fascinating stories and characters to television.”

TNT has two other pilots on tap, according to today’s press release:

Chelsea General joins two other recent pilot orders from TNT. Gateway, from Warner Horizon Television, is a Western saga revolving around three brothers who step in to save their town when their father, the town sheriff, is murdered. The brothers are pitted against a corrupt cattle baron who is determined to make the town his own. The cast includes Cam Gigandet, Keir O’Donnell, David Denman, Karen Allen, Ana De La Reguera, Keith Carradine, Donal Logue, Shanno Lucio, Eric Lang, Anthony Lapaglia and Bill Sadler. TNT has also ordered a pilot for Scent of the Missing fromCBS Television Studios.Based on Susannah Charleson’s book about an adrenaline junkie who leads a canine search-and-rescue team, the pilot stars Tricia Helfer, Gerald McRaney, Eric Winter and Summer Glau.

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