CBS puts “Three Rivers” on the cancellation list

Fans of Alex O’Loughlin will have their hearts stop beating and start breaking, as CBS cancels Three Rivers.  The medical drama about doctors helping their patients find suitable donor matches for a new liver, kidney, or heart has been on life support in the ratings against Sunday night football and ABC’s Desperate Housewives since this fall.

Three Rivers could’ve filled the void left by Grey’s Anatomy on Sunday nights thanks to O’Loughlin’s Dr. Andy, who may have been the next Dr. Doug Ross on ER or Dr. McDreamry. 

However, production of its 13 episodes will continue, yet there is no word on whether the final episodes will air or not.  Repeats of Criminal Minds and NCIS: Los Angeles will take over the Sunday 9pm slot.

Also, TNT has filed for cancellation of Steven Bochco’s Raising the Bar, the courtroom/legal drama starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar about friends who graduated from law school and went working as either prosecutors or public defenders.  After a strong freshman season, the series may have hit the sophomore slump, which gave TNT reason not to renew it for another season.  However, the remaining episodes, first reported by E! Online, could air next March.

Are you going to miss Three Rivers? Is CBS making a mistake?

“Big” reveals and “Mad” shut-outs for the 2009 Primetime Emmys

Nominations were announced Thursday morning for the 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards, with NBC’s 30 Rock leading with 22 nods, beating its previous record (17), with AMC’s Mad Men being cool with 16.  Both acclaimed shows won top honors the previous year in the Best Comedy and Drama category.

Both Big Bang Theory‘s Jim Parsons and Grey’s Anatomy‘s Chandra Wilson were ecstatic and surprised when the nominee presenters have also been nominated: freshman Parsons for Lead Actor in a Comedy, and Wilson for Supporting Actress in a Drama as well as Lead Actress for the Hallmark movie Accidental Friendship.

And it is good to be semi-psychic and obsessive-compulsive with Simon Baker and Tony Shalhoub each nominated as Lead Actor in the Drama and Comedy categories for The Mentalist and Monk.

However, True Blood and Desperate Housewives didn’t make the cut, as recently ended long-running shows like Battlestar Galatica, The Shield, Boston Legal, ER, and The Shield were also snubbed.  FOX’s clock-ticking thrill-ride 24 wasn’t in the running except star Kiefer Sutherland as Lead Actor for the movie prequel Redemption.

Even Jay Leno’s final Tonight Show year and Conan O’Brian’s farewell were left out in the late-night category.

And on a sad end, Farrah’s Story, which follows Farrah Fawcett’s battle with cancer before her death on June 25 was nominated in the nonfiction special category.

Supporting Actor nominee Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) hosts the 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards September 20, live at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.

Future McDreamy sister-in-law’s McBun has popped out

Thrusday’s airing of the 100th episode of Grey’s Anatomy was around the same time that Mer’s little sister Lexie gave birth, as her real-life alter ego Chyler Leigh and husband Nathan West welcome daughter Anniston Kae, who weighs at seven pounds and one ounce.

A representative of Leigh told People that both the mother and child are doing fine.  Anniston Kae is the couple’s third child, joining older brother Noah, 5, and middle sibling Taelyn, 2.

Meredith and Lexie have McBuns in the oven!

Both of the Grey sisters from ”Grey’s Anatomy” are expanding, as Ellen Pompeo and Chyler Leigh are both expecting, according to their reps from People and TVGuide.com

This will be the first for Pompeo and music producer husband Christopher Ivery, who has been married since 2007; no word yet on whether the pregnancy will be written into the storyline or not.

Her onscreen sibling, Leigh, will be having her third child with musician-actor husband Nathan West on May 15 of this year: daughter Alison Kay; her pregnancy won’t be written into the storyline.  The couple, married since 2002, have two children: son Noah, 5 and daughter Taelyn, 2.