Mercy (TV series)
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Mercy title card
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| Genre | Medical drama |
| Created by | Liz Heldens |
| Starring |
Taylor Schilling Michelle Trachtenberg Jaime Lee Kirchner James Tupper Diego Klattenhoff Guillermo Díaz James LeGros |
| Opening theme | "Better Get Right" by Devin Moore |
| Composer(s) |
Wendy Melvoin Lisa Coleman |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 22 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Gail Berman Lloyd Braun Liz Heldens Gretchen J. Berg Aaron Harberts Jim Ellis Adam Bernstein |
| Producer(s) | Jim Ellis Matt Ward James Bigwood |
| Cinematography | William Rexer Frank Prinzi Dejan Georgevich Russell Lee Fine David M. Dunlap |
| Editor(s) | Scott Gamzon Scott Boyd Heather MacDougall Greg D'Auria |
| Running time | 41–43 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Universal Media Studios BermanBraun Selfish Mermaid Open 4 Business Productions |
| Distributor | NBCUniversal Television Distribution |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | September 23, 2009 – May 12, 2010 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Mercy is an American medical drama television series which aired on NBC from September 23, 2009, to May 12, 2010. The series initially aired on Wednesday at 8:00 pm (ET), as part of the 2009 fall season, but was pushed back to 9:00 pm in April.
On October 23, 2009, Mercy was picked up for a full 22-episode first season. On May 14, 2010, NBC announced that Mercy had been cancelled after one season due to low ratings.
Mercy is an ensemble drama set in the fictional Mercy Hospital in Jersey City, New Jersey. The show focuses on the lives of three nurses. Veronica Flanagan Callahan (Taylor Schilling) is a nurse who has just returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, while Sonia Jimenez (Jaime Lee Kirchner), her best friend, has become seriously involved with a police officer, and Chloe Payne (Michelle Trachtenberg) is a recent nursing graduate who is thrown into the world of nursing and is unprepared for what it entails.
NBC producer Jim Bigwood selected the warehouse at 10 Enterprise Avenue in Secaucus, New Jersey as the filming location for the series. The show occasionally also filmed inside a private residence in Weehawken, New Jersey. The production left New Jersey for New York in 2010, however, when New Jersey Governor Chris Christie suspended the tax credits for film and television production for the fiscal year 2011 to close budget gaps.
Some interior shots for the show were filmed in the unused Barnert Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey. in the old St Mary's Hospital in Passaic Exterior shots of Mercy Hospital were taken of the back side of a public school on 4th street (between Newark Ave. and Colgate St.) in Jersey City, New Jersey. The exterior of Lucky 7's Bar was filmed at a location on the corner of 2nd and Coles Street in Jersey City. The interior of the bar was the Park Tavern located on West Side Avenue off Communipaw Avenue in Jersey City. The exterior shots of The Red Fox Saloon were filmed at the Monaghan House in South Amboy, New Jersey. The interior shots of the Saloon were filmed at Ted's Bar in the Morgan area of Sayreville, New Jersey.
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