Please Get Well Soon, Maura Tierney!

Maura Tierney needs an "eight-week medical evaluation"; her NBC show Parenthood will be pushed to midseason

Ugh. Bad news...

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Maura Tierney needs an "eight-week medical evaluation" of some kind. (NBC: "We are unable to release further details and ask that you respect her privacy at this time.")

This means that Maura's upcoming NBC drama Parenthood, produced by Ron Howard and Jason Katims, and costarring Peter Krause and Mae Whitman, will be pushed to midseason. Mercy, the Michelle Trachtenberg series about nurses, will premiere in Parenthood's place.

But the TV of it all is obviously not the point. Maura Tierney is a visibly awesome woman we have loved since NewsRadio and all the way through ER, and whatever she's going through right now sounds awful.

Hopefully, this turns out to be nothing and Maura will be back to full capacity as soon as humanly possible.