NBC’s Trauma Gets a Second (or is it Third?) Chance.

If there’s anyone out there more excited than me that NBC threw in the towel with Jay Leno’s 10 pm experiment, it’s the people who work on San Francisco’s medical drama, Trauma. Back in the Fall, I followed the show from premiere to quick cancellation because it features a lot of scenes shot in and around South of Market.

Thanks to the five hours of prime-time left in the fallout of Jay Leno’s failed experiment, they’re back (click here for an article). The show has high production costs with expensive explosions and a pretty large cast, but don’t get too comfortable with it. If they don’t significantly grow their audience over the next few weeks, they’ll be off the air sooner than you can say “call 9-1-1!”

Personally, the only thing I enjoyed about the show was playing ‘name that location’ in each scene. The action sequences are decent, but there’s not enough action to make the weak (and forced) character development watch-able. Maybe they’ve used the downtime to work out the show’s dynamic. Let’s hope, at least. If they get renewed, it creates jobs and stimulates the local economy (and also closes some streets to traffic, but still!).

Trauma begins its ‘watch-or-die’ run tonight at 9 pm on NBC.