Nora O’brien
Nora O’brien – After a delay of several months and a slew of Olympic promos, “Parenthood” (NBC, 10 p.m.) finally makes its debut. The second attempt to turn the 1989 movie into a series had to recast the part played by Maura Tierney, who left to treat her breast cancer. And it had to survive another tragedy in the death of NBC executive Nora O’Brien, the 44 year old West Hartford native who died suddenly on the set last April.
Tierney, who is recovering from her treatment according to recent reports, was replaced by Lauren Graham, who has had a lot of experience playing a single mother through seven seasons on “Gilmore Girls,” and does well in the pilot.
Peter Krause, who has a history of keeping a moral center, in shows from “Six Feet Under” to “Dirty Sexy Money,” has much of that same role here, playing opposite overbearing father Craig T. Nelson. Like the movie that inspired it (and the short-lived 1990 series that preceded it), Ron Howard is involved presumably in name only so far. But a well acted family ensemble series is always welcome on network TV and this one looks as good or better than “Brothers & Sisters” if only because it’s a fresh new set of interrelated characters.
Nora O’brien
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