For all of you who’ve been wondering, “Hey, what’s Skeet Ulrich up to these days?” — sit back and relax, because the hobo’s Johnny Depp has landed a starring role in an as-yet unnamed medical pilot for CBS.
The CBS project, written by Hannah Shakespeare, centers on a mobile medical team that travels the U.S. helping those in need get through life-or-death medical crises.
Ulrich will play a key member of the team, a Harvard-educated brilliant cardiologist with rock star looks who embraces the tumult of frequent volunteer missions to escape the hell of his personal life. He is still in love with his ex-wife, now a hopeless junkie, and is holding out hope that she may clean up and come back to him and their six-year-old daughter.
For Ulrich, this marks a third starring vehicle at CBS, following “Jericho” and last year’s drama pilot “Back.”
Hold on, hold on. Play that one part back. No, not the Hannah Shakespeare part. The part about the Harvard-educated cardiologist single dad doing volunteer work because of his junkie ex-wife. Yup, that sounds just stupid and preposterous enough to succeed on CBS.
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In other words, House Call. *dismissive wank*
When this fails and Hannah Shakespeare’s privileges on the lot are revoked, she will truly be “The Barred.”
All of Hannah’s stuff was written by Frances Bacon.
Skeet skeet skeet!
Jericho was actually a good show.
/ducks tomatoes
Although, maybe I just liked it because I live in Kansas, where the show is set — despite all of the scenes that looked like they were filmed in California’s Simi Valley.
Nice four-layering job there, Skeet. Those winters in L.A. can be brutal.
She’s no Bill Shakespeare.
Can you believe that writer’s name? I mean, Hannah? Come on.
Corey Haim would have been great in this. *whispers* Wait, really?
This might work….if Ulrich is being cast as the junkie wife
Skeet’s still hot, so I’ll watch…..
Skeet’s awesome — sexy and talented. Though, another medical show is not a good idea. The tube is saturated. Jericho was an excellent show, though he was even better in Miracles — I’ll watch his new one just for him.
Hello, has anyone noticed that Skeet is actually real and Johnny Depp has turned into a bloated, pompous shadow of his long-ago interesting self. If Skeet has to keep scrambling to make it maybe he’ll be able to remain a human being, unlike Depp. Don’t compare the two, it’s sickening. And I used to love Johnny Depp when he was doing all that indie stuff. All I can say is that without Skeet, Jericho would never have been the kick-ass show it was. I still miss it. And I don’t miss Pirates of the Caribbean at all.