SERIES PREMIERE: David E. Kelley and co-executive producer Bill D’Elia have been making TV a long time, and most of it has been terrific: Ally McBeal, The Practice, Boston Legal, Harry’s Law. They even worked together on Kelley’s Chicago Hope, a medical series that premiered the same week as ER – and here they are again, almost 20 years later, with a new medical series, this one based on a novel by Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The standout in the series pilot is Alfred Molina, as the no-nonsense chief of surgery, but this one, at least initially, feels a lot more stiff, and a lot less imaginative, than most Kelley series to date. So give it a look, and decide its prognosis for yourself. For a full review, see Eric Gould's Cold Light Reader.

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