这部剧集由《愚人善事》（My Name Is Earl）创作人Greg Garcia打造。故事讲述23岁的Jimmy Chance与一个女人一夜风流之后，对方竟生下了他的女儿。更糟的是，这个女人随后被判处死刑，Jimmy必须独自抚养这个孩子。
An offbeat, laugh track-lacking sitcom about a bizarrely dysfunctional family, the center of which is Malcolm, the middle of the two brothers who still live at home. His eldest (and favorite) sibling, Francis, boards at military school because his parents believe it will reform him and keep him out of trouble. Malcolm often has a hard time coping with his family life, but he has more troubles to contend with when he starts receiving special treatment at school after being diagnosed as an intellectually advanced genius.
这部昔日的CBS旗舰剧集已经失去了一个好汉（Charlie Sheen被开除，Charlie Harper也随之死亡），现在又将失去半个好汉——因为种种原因（如果你相信CBS官方所说的「他要读大学」那你就太天真了），Angus T. Jones不再是该剧的常规演员，他的名字也将从片头字幕中彻底抹除。
这是发生在美国芝加哥一家急诊室的故事，这里每天收治的都是需要急救的病人，每位医护人员都用自己的高超的医术和仁慈的爱心对每一位患者进行救助，每天有很多人从这里健康地走出，也有很多生命在这里画上句号，但是弥漫在急诊室里的温暖感受人的空气，却一直没有变过。健康与病痛相连，生命与死亡并存，这部剧集讲述发生在急诊室里真实而又感人的故事。
