3 lbs is a drama

Drama

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 that aired on CBS

CBS

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 from November 14 to 28, 2006, replacing the cancelled series Smith

Smith (TV series)

Smith is an American television drama that premiered on September 16, 2006 at 10:00 PM ET on CBS and on September 18, 2006 on CTV in Canada...

. The show itself was then canceled three weeks later due to poor ratings.
The title refers to the fact that the average human brain weighs approximately three pounds. The show follows the medical careers of prominent brain surgeon Doctor Douglas Hanson (played by Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director. He has been nominated for several notable film awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his performance in The Lovely Bones...

) and his protégé, Jonathan Seger.

The show was promoted as, "The next great medical drama

Medical drama

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." The theme song is "Calling All Angels

Calling All Angels

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" by Train

Train (band)

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. Eight episode

Episode

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s were made, and the five episodes that did not originally air in the United States are available on Amazon Unbox

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.

The program filmed in New York City

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 at the request of Tucci, who didn't want to be away from home to make the series.

When the pilot was originally filmed Dylan McDermott

Dylan McDermott

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 played Dr. Doug Hanson, and Reiko Aylesworth

Reiko Aylesworth

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 played Dr. Adrienne Holland.

Main cast

Actor	Role
Stanley Tucci Stanley Tucci Stanley Tucci is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director. He has been nominated for several notable film awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his performance in The Lovely Bones...	Dr. Douglas Hanson
Mark Feuerstein Mark Feuerstein -Career:Feuerstein got his break-through on television as a recurring character on the daytime soap opera Loving. When director Nancy Meyers was casting What Women Want, her daughter recognized Feuerstein from Practical Magic and insisted that her mother cast him...	Dr. Jonathan Seger
Indira Varma Indira Varma Indira Varma is an English actress. Her first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. She has gone on to appear in the television series Rome and Human Target.-Early life and background:...	Dr. Adrienne Holland
Armando Riesco Armando Riesco Armando Riesco is a Puerto Rican film and television actor and voice artist.-Biography:Riesco was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico to Cuban immigrants who resettled there. He was raised in San Juan where he attended Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola. Riesco then attended Northwestern University...	Dr. Thomas Flores
Zabryna Guevara	Melania Ortiz
Griffin Dunne Griffin Dunne -Personal life:Dunne was born Thomas Griffin Dunne in New York City, New York, the son of Ellen Beatriz Dunne and Dominick Dunne. His mother founded the victims' rights organization Justice for Homicide Victims and his father was a producer, writer, and actor...	Jeffrey Coles
Juliette Goglia Juliette Goglia Juliette Rose Goglia is an American teen actress. She is best known for portraying Sierra in the Disney Channel series That's So Raven and Hannah West in the CBS series CSI...	Erica Lund
Tamara Taylor Tamara Taylor Tamara Taylor is a Canadian television actress.Born in Toronto to a black Canadian father and a Scottish Canadian mother, her most famous role is that of Dr. Camille Saroyan, head of the Forensic Division, on the forensic crime drama Bones...	Della

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