"Every Breath You Take" TV Promo June 12, 2010

Alex O'Loughlin wins Donate Life Hollywood's 2010 Person of the Year Award

Congrats to Alex O'Loughlin for winning the Donate Life Hollywood's 2010 Person of the Year Award!
Thank you Alex O'Loughlin for your hard work and dedication to the cause of spreading the news about the need for organ donation! A much deserved win!
A special thank you to Tenaya Wallace, Director of Donate Life Hollywood, for the privilege of being present while Alex so humbly accepted his award.

What is the typical viewer of "Three Rivers" like?

I came across a Google Alert today that I not only found very interesting but somewhat surprising. Someone had posted on a forum that they had the first six episodes of "Three Rivers" on their DVR, not seen yet, and asking for what people thought about the show and if they should bother to watch it.

I know why I first started to watch Three Rivers: I'm an Alex O'Loughlin fan; I'd watch him read the phone book. Of course I know in the organ donation community there was a vested interest in the show to get the message out there and to do well, to bring public awareness for a growing need for people to sign up to become organ donors and to educate the public about the myths and facts surrounding donating your organs. Two different, distinct viewers, both wanting the show to succeed but for obviously different reasons.

This forum post made me think about the other viewer. The viewer that Three Rivers' needs to succeed enough to stay on the air. That elusive viewer that doesn't have a vested interest in the show. Now that most of us have settled into our regular viewing schedule, how does a random viewer stumble upon the show? Is there such a thing as a random viewer? I know my TV habits, I find the shows I like and stick with them. I don't think I have ever just "found" something to watch. Are the majority of TV watchers like me, or are there still channel surfers?

Getting back to the forum poster's question and the answers they received, and if I take out the obvious Alex lover and the obvious Alex hater posts (one of each canceled each other out) the answer became clear. Although most were interested enough in the show to watch, they were not invested enough to "bother" with time over-runs. Either they didn't want to wait for the show to start, couldn't extend their DVR timers to allow for the over-runs due to scheduling conflicts with another show, or didn't want to stay up that late on a Sunday night.

In conclusion, my hope is that CBS is aware that without a regular schedule, trying to attract new viewers, the typical casual viewer, is an uphill battle. Hopefully CBS will give the show enough of a chance to find new viewers by keeping the show on long enough to see that it can perform, over and above its core audience, once the sporting events stop changing the start time of the show.

Dr. Andy Smiles #6:


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Three Rivers Season 1 Episode 6. The sixth in a series of edits of ALL of Andy's smiles, including the blurry one, in order, for every episode. A few smirks included for song definition.

On location Episode 104 "Code Green"

Although "Three Rivers" is set in Pittsburgh, most of any actual outside or "location" filming for the show will be shot in Los Angeles, carefully disguised as Pittsburgh through the magic of editing stock footage into the scenes or the even more magical application of computer generated images (CGI).
Three Rivers is set inside a hospital and therefore most of the footage will logically be shot on their beautiful hospital sets at CBS Paramount. But, on the rare ocassion that the actors get to venture to the out of doors, I'll try and find the locations for you. (I keep asking myself why I didn't fall for one of the actors on NCIS:LA as my life would be a lot easier location scouting wise!)

So here we go, Epsiode 104 "Code Green".
The helipad for the fictional "Three Rivers Regional Medical Center" is actually on the rooftop of 220 S Spring Street in Los Angeles, CA. According to the location filming rumor mill, the scenes for 104 were shot August 24, 2009.
I've attached a few screen caps from the episode and also a few snaps of the area via googlemaps. Please excuse the quality on the snaps as I'm a video editor not a screen capper. :-)
(In other words, I do better with moving subjects!)











As these shots set precedence for the show, I would suspect that the location will be used again and again through actual filming of more scenes and/or reusing those already filmed.
My guess is that the helipad shot that is in the opening credits was also shot on the same day.