Maura Tierney Ill, NBC Pushes Parenthood To Midseason

NBC’s new fall series Parenthood has been pushed to midseason because of an illness of Maura Tierney. The series had been scheduled to begin filming July 27. The production start of the Universal Media Studios/Imagine TV-produced show is now tentatively scheduled for late September.

Parenthood, a reimagining of the 1989 feature, revolves around four siblings (Peter Krause, Tierney, Erika Christensen, Dax Shepard) and their parents (Bonnie Bedelia and Craig T. Nelson).

As a result of the delay, NBC is making a change on its fall schedule. Parenthood” had been scheduled to premiere September 23 and run in the Wednesday 8:00 PM/ET hour. Mercy, which was to take over the Wednesday 8:00 PM/ET slot in midseason, will launch in the fall instead. The cast and crew of the medical drama are starting work on the series early to have it ready for its September debut. NBC hasn’t decided if Mercy will air Wednesdays at 8:00 PM/ET as NBC is re-evaluating its fall scheduling plans.

This is the second time filming on Parenthood has been put on hold under unfortunate circumstances. In April, production on the pilot was shut down for two days after NBC’s vp drama Nora O’Brien died unexpectedly on the Berkeley, California, set of the show.