Producers thought it was too technical, chaotic, and fastmoving. As he writes on his website, : “It sat on a shelf for the next nineteen years—brought out every five or ten years, for updating, and for the studios and networks to look at, and reject yet again. Finally NBC made it as a TV pilot. And it became a series.” That’s a bit of an understatement: ER has been the winner of 22 Emmy Awards including Outstanding Drama Series (1996), with an industry record 115 nominations. It’s the law The foremost writer of legal-related fiction these days is John Grisham. After.