Village Vidiot: TV

Another casualty from the fall season - NBC's "Trauma" has been canceled.

The one-hour drama about paramedics in San Francisco just couldn't muster enough ratings despite its feeble attempts to try and capture the heart-racing thrills of "ER."

It also was just too expensive to produce at a reported cost of about $3 million per episode. Granted, producer blew up a lot of stuff for the show - they just forgot to create good characters.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the network will produce the rest of the 13 episodes before calling it quits, but it is not known if they will even air (at least they likely will for the upcoming DVD).

In the meantime, "Chuck" will take its place on the schedule.