It's official: Kip Pardue has been cast as the new resident nurse and love interest to Linda Cardellini's Sam on ER, sources confirm. He's slated to debut on Nov. 30. For those playing at home, the "acting titan" clue I dropped was a nod to Pardue's role in Remember the Titans. Congrats to all the winners!Bonus points go to anyone who can correctly ID the Buffy alum who was originally in talks to play the part. If you ask nicely, maybe I'll give you a clue in this week's Ask Ausiello. Aren't these games fun?
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Matt Saracen, we hardly knew ye. Just as the team finally coalesces, they’re getting this new QB. That final scene left me incredibly frustrated. I guess that it just came to a point where security in talent trumped integrity, but I have to say I’m disappointed. It’s a touchy issue, what with Tatum being a displaced Katrina survivor and his family living all together in one room in a crappy motel, but I can’t say it didn’t hurt. I wonder, though, if Saracen is in some way relieved that he won’t have to deal with all of this pressure anymore. He’s watching his grandmother succumb to what seems like Alzheimer’s, his father is in Iraq, people are screaming “loser” at him, and yet he’s enduring everything with such grace. I know I might be jumping to conclusions, since we don’t know what’s really going to happen with Tatum, but damn it, I like Saracen.It would seem that if last week’s episode were all about suspense,...
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