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Noah Wyle: "The Pitt"

  In its many years on the air, "ER" landed only one (one!) Primetime Emmy Award for a series regular. The actor was Julianna Margulies. No one else ever won! And so "The Pitt"--after its first season--has already defeated "ER." Both Noah Wyle and Katherine LaNasa have Emmy Awards.  While the early years of "ER" were centered on the love affair between the Margulies character and the George Clooney character, there isn't a comparably soapy storyline in "The Pitt" (at least not within the first four hours, which are the hours I've watched). No one seems to be passionately in love with anyone else. Instead, the doctors and nurses have unglamorous storylines: Should I get a pet when I'm already overwhelmed with childcare duties? How do I manage an obnoxious frenemy? When my noisy iPhone ring disrupts a meeting, how do I tell my "inner voice" to shut up and move on? One thing I'm often aware of in a TV show is ...