For evidence of how ambivalent television can be about baby boomers, consider the story of “Hot in Cleveland” star Wendie Malick.HOLLYWOOD – Don’t you love TV development? Networks rush all spring to finish pilots to present them to advertisers in May, then spend all summer retooling before launching them in the fall.
CBS has decided to shoot its new medical drama, “Three Rivers,” at Paramount Studios instead of a Pittsburgh hospital. The drama, created by Carol Barbee (“Jericho”), is set in a transplant hospital and centers on the lives of the organ donors, the recipients and the medical workers who care for them.
CBS wants the pilot to have a “warmer” look and will build a “hospital” set on the Paramount lot.
A surprise: The role of Dr. Sophia Jordan, head of surgery, played by Julia Ormond (“Legends of the Fall”) in the pilot, will be recast.
“Three Rivers” will air at 9 p.m. Sundays.
