George Clooney on What ER Did For His Career | AFI 2018 | TNT

George Clooney talks about what "E.R." meant to his career. Watch the AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards honoring George Clooney June 21 on TNT!
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About the AFI Life Achievement Award
The highest honor given for a career in film, the AFI Life Achievement Award was established by the AFI Board of Trustees in 1973. George Clooney will receive the 46th AFI Life Achievement Award, honoring the actor, director, writer and producer. TNT will premiere the hour-and-a-half special, THE 46TH AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE CLOONEY on Thursday, June 21, at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, followed by an encore at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT. Sister network Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will also air the special in September 2018 during a night of programming dedicated to Clooney's work. This marks the sixth year the Emmy®-winning AFI special will air on Turner networks.
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[@rachaelmagerl4836]

There will never be another show like ER. ER was truly one of a kind!

[@NazriB]

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[@theferryman4916]

The first couple of seasons of ER are without a doubt among the best TV-Show seasons ever produced

[@andrewgundy3045]

Absolutely

[@token1371]

Clooney was right about that fantastic ensemble. The high ratings allowed the diversity of favorite nurses and doctors by viewers. I loved the Benton/Carter pair more than the Ross/Greene (my wife's favorite). ER changed medical drama, and gifted us with flawed heroes who made their work personal.

[@saibirina]

So true. It wasn't the first so long?

[@sinanuluc5143]

@@saibirina Then came Greys Anatomy and copy-pasted everything from ER! :D

[@Professional_Victim_H8er]

I became an emergency department/trauma RN because of this show.

[@naomib9684]

ER definitely was a great show

[@naomib9684]

Currently watching

[@saibirina]

Totally

[@_aworldthatspoke950]

Should I kill myself?

[@TheMaan2008]

@@_aworldthatspoke950 ??

[@Mybpeterson]

Clooney wasn't overstating the case when he called ER the water cooler show. *Everyone* was talking about it the next day. I once tried to convey to my young adult kids how popular the show was, they didn't understand until I told them it was the Game of Thrones of its day. (this was back when GoT was must watch tv)

[@MISSYGful]

Exactly this! It really was the vanguard for quality event TV. And where the reversal of movie star to small screen started. It's common now for us to see 'movie' stars on tv shows, but not back then. Some big names appeared on ER.

[@Mybpeterson]

@@MISSYGful That's an excellent point. I can remember two shows with movie star guests at that time. The Nanny was the other one. Two different genres, but the guest stars were unheard of for tv shows. When Elizabeth Taylor appeared on The Nanny I was stunned.

[@peerah]

@@Mybpeterson it also featured a whole lot of (at the time) soon-to-be movie and TV stars. I saw familiar faces but didn’t realize how many until someone put the list together.

[@austinsmith1505]

Season 1-5 were the best television ever

[@jeannievrantsis445]

I loved ER. Great ensemble, great script and important themes. Has aged well.

[@olalala439]

God I love E.R. and I love George Clooney!

[@dequanrick2209]

Olga Gorniak Me To

[@Professional_Victim_H8er]

NBC OWNED the Thursday night line up between 1982-2005. Think about it, in that time span there was: The Cosby Show, Family Ties, Cheers, Night Court, Hill Street Blues, Friends, Mad About You, Seinfeld, Will and Grace, Fraser, ER. They just cranked out hit after hit after hit. Some of these shows are considered the best shows in the history of t.v. It really was the golden age of television.

[@slimak8888]

watching ER again right now

[@rachaelmagerl4836]

George Clooney can never die. He has to live forever!

[@pat3743]

My favourite show👌I have goosebumps when I hear the music theme. For the first time I saw ER when I was like 15 years old, now I'm almost 36 and I watch season 5. I would say that the most exciting seasons were until Dr Green death.

[@giordanotirelli6028]

Today george 63 years

[@giordanotirelli6028]

Happy birthday george from italian boy live in rome and I m fan of er

[@amp7853]

He looks so good with gray 😍😍

[@cathyhudson7735]

ER is a get away. Favorite characters.Wanting to be rich like a Doctor.A nurse who is heathy/Sane...And nothing from the truth.Aaron is a Genesis.Casting, please take a bow.All the actors of ER are amazing.Please enjoy your lives.Go on UTube & give us updates.

[@Melina-fi3sc]

Love ER

[@giordanotirelli6028]

Happy birthday george from italian boy live in rome

[@Melina-fi3sc]

Great and awesome show 😁

[@giordanotirelli6028]

Today george 62 years

[@wozmac771]

I was always afraid of medical shows. hahaha. My brother watched it regularly. I sat down for a minute and never got up until the original cast had gone. The Eric Lasalle character Dr. Benton brought some memories of a book I had read a few years earlier. I believe the book was called ER. I remember Michael Crichton saying a while back that he had written the book for a movie but was converted to a series.

[@lashistoriasdejorge379]

Any idea on how could I get my hands on that Crichton book that spawned the show? Been looking for years with no luck

[@SaraX2024]

I wonder how long the original interview took. It seems like the time on his watch is not changing. Maybe just a prop?

[@mobiz711]

He's annoyingly handsome. Kind of like overkill.

[@giordanotirelli6028]

George was born on saturday as today

[@ryanbarth6691]

I hear Mr fox

[@mikekling5880]

ER should have been screwed in that timeslot they were in.

[@Alfeco-dm7uk]

ER's peak came in Season 8, with major cast departures (Benton and Greene) and emotional resolutions marking the beginning of its decline. ER's declining quality post-Season 8 was evident through an influx of new characters and unrealistic storylines, resulting in the series losing its initial appeal. It was canceled in season 15 with one-third of its initial ratings.

[@tobeyntucker]

One of tv’s best. Doing the show after ten years with “ emergency “ that never took flight, must of had been bizarre. So many pilots between. Clooney never found a home. He’s right the production value of ER for its time was a slam dunk. Hell or High Water episode I watched as it broadcasted for the first time, next day at work my whole crew was yapping about it all day it seemed. On a side note the revaluation that Malike the nurse was claimed to had been the one who attacked Mark in the bathroom weighs heavy. Malike wasn’t present at Marks funeral either. Kinda find that creepy.

[@emilinegabriele]

um yes he was... who told you it was him are you okay?

[@sutouha27]

@@emilinegabriele yeah... Malik was definitely at the funeral... granted he was only fully visible in a deleted scene from the Season 8 DVD, but he was definitely there. Idk why people would just make up stuff like that 🤦‍♀️

[@allanfifield8256]

I liked ER better after Clooney left. He was such an obvious hunk. The other characters became more interesting.

[@joemckim1183]

Goran Visnjic was a good unofficial replacement for Clooney.

[@margeshilling7983]

@@joemckim1183 He was. The guy was even more handsome than Clooney and I couldn't take my eyes off him. He turned out to be a fine actor as well.

[@joemckim1183]

@@margeshilling7983 Visnjic was in 185 episodes, Clooney was in 109.

[@margeshilling7983]

@@joemckim1183 Wow, I didn't know that. I love Clooney but I thought Visnjic was the better actor. His storyline with James Cromwell as a priest was very moving.

[@saibirina]

@@margeshilling7983 I think they are both very good actors but Clooney has something more, is even the producer and the writer of some of his shows. I fought to be a good actor beyond be beautiful or not

[@tj205bama]

I bet I'm the only one who didn't like his character at all and was glad when he left

[@baldwinwallace4926]

Do guys watch those hospital shows because I don't know any that do? Are all the viewers women?

[@erincrosby9087]

My dad watched er when it was new

[@fransstal6535]

Your mom

[@MikeWilsonBarrett]

I'm rewatching ER on All4. 9 series polished off in 2 and half weeks 😂

[@batirtzeurkiaga102]

😅😅😅😅😅😅Yeap!!!!!

[@pitilessnightmare6879]

Both my parents watched it, mom and dad. And they are still watching it by the HBO streaming lol

[@Kongatthegates00]

I grew up loving er so much I wanted to he an er doctor. Fast forward I finally became one. 1st day in the job I killed a patient. Now I work at Arbys.

[@THEBANDIT7979]

Everything. He’s a glorified tv actor still. Not a movie star.

[@giordanotirelli6028]

Happy birthday george from italian boy live in rome