E-Ring
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- For other uses of "E Ring" see E Ring (disambiguation)
| E-Ring | |
|---|---|
 The opening sequence of NBC's E-Ring. |
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| Genre | Military drama |
| Creator(s) | Ken Robinson David McKenna |
| Starring | Benjamin Bratt Aunjanue Ellis Dennis Hopper Robert Joy Joe Morton Kelsey Oldershaw Gabriel Olds Kelly Rutherford |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 22 (8 unaired) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 42 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | NBC |
| Original run | September 21, 2005 – February 1, 2006 |
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| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
E-Ring was a television military drama, created by Ken Robinson and David McKenna and executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, that premiered on NBC on September 21, 2005. The title of the show refers to the structure of The Pentagon, which is configured in five concentric rings, from "A" to "E", with E being the outermost ring, which is considered to be where the more high-profile work is done. The show stars Benjamin Bratt as Lieutenant Colonel Jim Tisnewski and Dennis Hopper as Colonel Eli McNulty, as officers working for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The show struggled from the onset because it was up against Lost, but a move by NBC gave it an earlier time slot where ratings have improved. However the show was pulled from the lineup during the February sweeps and never made it back on, NBC officially cancelling it at the NBC Upfront on May 15.
E-Ring is currently airing in the United Kingdom on FX, as of July 28, 2006. They will be showing all 22 episodes filmed. It is also currently (as of July 2006) shown in 'Kanal 5' for the Swedish market [1] and in 'La Sexta' for the Spanish market. On September 8 2006 Hong Kong's ATV began showing it. In October E-ring will be aired on Premiere (a German pay TV company) starting on October 5 synced in German language as well as the original sound. The show is also airing in Panama on TVMax and Portugal on Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. The show is also currently airing on the Israeli Cable channel XTRA Hot. The show is currently airing on Philippine cable channel Crime/Suspense.
There has been no indication of when or if the remaining episodes will be shown in the US by NBC. As a result, these episodes premiered on Irish network TG4.
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[edit] Cast
- Benjamin Bratt - Major Jim "JT" Tisnewski
- Dennis Hopper - Colonel Eli McNulty
- Aunjanue Ellis - Master Sergeant Jocelyn Pierce
- Kelly Rutherford - Samantha "Sonny" Liston
- Kerr Smith - Bobby Wilkerson
[edit] Recurring Cast
- Joe Morton - Steven Algazi
- Robert Joy - Mark Boskovich
- Kelsey Oldershaw - Angie Aronson (Episodes 101-108)
- Andrew McCarthy - Aaron Gerrity
[edit] Episode list
[edit] Season 1: 2005-2006
| # | Code | Title | Airdate | Overview |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2T6750 | "Pilot" | September 21, 2005 | Colonel McNulty finds himself at odds with Major Jim Tisnewski. The major must convince his superiors at the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the United States should risk war with China to rescue an American operative. |
| 2 | 2T6751 | "Snatch and Grab" | September 28, 2005 | McNulty and his staff must act quickly to keep a terrorist ally from slipping away. While, someone from JT's past figures into his mission of sending his old unit into harm's way when a high-risk mission requires the best of the special-ops teams. A wounded soldier and a captured terrorist are retrieved with the Fulton surface-to-air recovery system. |
| 3 | 2T6754 | "Escape and Evade" | October 5, 2005 | McNulty sends JT on a mission to Iraq to find out why there is unauthorized covert action and if the United States is illegally treading on Iranian soil. However, he winds up wounded and is forced on the run. Sonny and Algazi assemble a team to rescue JT from Iran. |
| 4 | 2T6752 | "Tribes" | October 12, 2005 | Africa is experiencing another threat of genocide reminiscent of Rwanda and JT seeks the help of a bureaucrat to help out before time runs out. |
| 5 | 2T6753 | "Weekend Pass" | October 19, 2005 | Two US Marines are accused of raping a young local woman in Suriname. JT learns of this and he immediately jumps to action only to find opposition from above. The United States doesn't want to jeopardize its aluminium interests controlled by the Surinamese government. He must navigate the political maze to discern the truth and try to save the soldiers' lives. |
| 6 | 2T6755 | "Toy Soldiers" | October 26, 2005 | When JT challenges his superiors' reasons for unexpectedly placing a known terrorist on the capture/kill list, he learns that politics in the Pentagon can be deadly. |
| 7 | 2T6757 | "Cemetery Wind (1)" | November 2, 2005 | When Angie is put in a dangerous situation, she can only leave him one clue as to what has happened to her. JT must recall his old Special Ops missions in order to find the answer. |
| 8 | 2T6758 | "Cemetery Wind (2)" | November 9, 2005 | In Colombia, JT is at risk of an undercover operation to nail a murderous drug lord and has discovered who attacked Angie. Now, he has to finish a job they started together years ago. |
| 9 | 2T6759 | "Delta Does Detroit" | November 16, 2005 | JT and a Special Ops team are sent to Detroit to address a situation with a radical Christian group that has taken over a mosque and taken hostages. JT must address legal concerns around the action due to FBI jurisdiction. |
| 10 | 2T6756 | "The Forgotten" | November 23, 2005 | McNulty discovers that a captured Navy Seal could be alive in the Philippines and he and JT are set to save the man. However, they soon face resistance from the Pentagon and might have to do what is known as a "backdoor" mission to save the soldier. Also, more about McNulty's mysterious past is revealed during this endeavor. |
| 11 | 2T6760 | "Christmas Story" | December 7, 2005 | On Christmas Eve, JT works on a humanitarian aid mission for an Afghanistan village that helped Delta several years ago. He finds the village confronting bad weather and an advancing Taliban force. Also, Sonny helps JT's father who needs a favor. |
| 12 | 2T6761 | "Breath of Allah" | January 11, 2006 | When an interagency strike in Amsterdam turns up an illegal lab producing the Plague, JT and his SOD team rush an anti-terrorism plan into effect, only to realize that the threat is much, much closer to home. Samantha finds herself with an enticing job offer which further complicates her relationship with JT. |
| 13 | 2T6762 | "War Crimes" | January 18, 2006 | JT and his team of Special Ops soldiers put themselves in harm's way to help investigate war criminals in Sarajevo. Things heat up when the attorney they're guarding is suddenly poisoned. |
| 14 | 2T6763 | "The General" | February 1, 2006 | JT is celebrating his promotion to Lieutenant Colonel when he and the Special Ops team receive word that a high ranking special ops officer is kidnapped in Spain. He and his team must travel the globe to track down the people responsible and hopefully before the deadline the terrorists have given them. |
| 15 | 2T6764 | "Five Pillars" | September 21, 2006 | A foiled special operations mission in Pakistan leads JT to believe there is a spy in the E-Ring. When suspicion builds around the man Sgt. Pierce is starting to fall for, she is forced to go undercover against him. |
| 16 | 2T6765 | "Fallen Angels" | September 28, 2006 | When JT and his team rush to the scene of a plane crash in Venezuela, the local press accuse the passengers of being assassins bent on killing its president. A gunfight leads to JT and Bobby's becoming trapped within the country's borders, but McNulty plots their escape from his hospital bed. |
| 17 | 2T6766 | "Friends and Enemies" | October 5, 2006 | A submarine collides with a North Korean vessel, which begins to sink. The team race against time to save survivors before another ship arrives with intentions of killing everyone on board. |
| 18 | 2T6767 | "Two Princes"(a.k.a. "American Girls") | October 12, 2006 | While visiting Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, JT and Bobby become involved in a scheme to kidnap the two daughters of the crown prince to help them to return to the US where they grew up. |
| 19 | 2T6768 | "Brothers In Arms" | October 19, 2006 | During a mission to train an elite Iraqi service unit, JT and Bobby meet a soldier who doesn't know his brother is a suicide bomber acting against American occupation. |
| 20 | 2T6769 | "Hard Sell" (a.k.a. "Interrogation") | October 26, 2006 | During a psychological evaluation, JT experiences flashbacks of a traumatic mission to Lebanon to rescue a man who is being tortured by insurgents. Bobby loses his composure when a known terrorist refuses to co-operate. |
| 21 | 2T6770 | "Isolation" | November 2, 2006 | JT and the team travel to Mexico to apprehend a drug lord who has allied himself with Al Qaeda and is smuggling terrorists into the US. |
| 22 | 2T6771 | "Acceptable Losses" | November 9, 2006 | After escaping capture by Mexican authorities during a dangerous covert mission, JT becomes involved in a gunfight with a drug gang and later discovers that one of the men he shot is a federal agent. |
[edit] External links
- Official Site - USA (discontinued - checked 3/27/07)
- Official Site - UK
- TV-Boards: E-Ring (discontinued- checked 3/27/07)
- E-Ring Online
- E-Ring at the Internet Movie Database
- E-Ring at epguides.com
