
Mark your calendar: Michael Shanks‘ new series Saving Hope will make its debut on Thursday, June 7 at 10 p.m. (E/P), both NBC and CTV have announced. The supernatural hospital drama will air simultaneously on the U.S. and Canadian networks.
The series is currently filming in Toronto.
Saving Hope tells the story of Charlie Harris (Shanks), chief of surgery at Hope-Zion Hospital, who finds himself in a coma after a car accident. Here is CTV’s description of the story:
When charismatic Chief of Surgery Charlie Harris (Michael Shanks) at Toronto’s Hope-Zion Hospital ends up in a coma, he leaves the hospital in chaos — and his fiancée and fellow surgeon, Alex Reid (Erica Durance), in a state of shock. Along with newly-arrived star surgeon, Joel Goran (Daniel Gillies), Alex races to save Harris’ life. As the action unfolds, comatose Dr. Harris explores the hospital halls in “spirit” form, not sure if he’s a ghost or a figment of his own imagination. Reid, along with her fellow doctors, press on to save his life and those of their other patients, as they deal with the complicated and courageous decisions that are made in their daily struggle to keep hope alive.
Shanks played Dr. Daniel Jackson on Stargate SG-1.
Erica Durance co-stars as Charlie’s fiancée, Dr. Alex Reid. Stargate fans who don’t know her from Smallville may recognize her from her guest appearance as Teal’c’s neighbor, Krista James, in the eighth season episode “Affinity.”
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This is great for old Shanky…but I wont SG “Anything” back.
Good job, Shanks. Will look forward to checking it out.
I want Stargate “Anything” back too, hewittor!
This show looks really good – I just showed my mom the trailer. She doesn’t know who Michael Shanks is other than what I have said about Stargate, but she agrees that he very cute (we share equal taste in men!), and we both agreed that this looks like a great show. NBC really needs a quality program, and I think this is going to be it. Good luck Michael, I love you and will be watching your show!
This doesn’t seem like anything I’d want to watch but I wish him all the luck in the world with his new series!
Hey, look Daniel you died again.(almost)
Great for Shanks! But this is on NBC so its doomed to fail unless its on a Friday, the only night the network can seem to catch a break!