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You Go Girl! Jada Pinkett Smith makes history as Nurse Christina Hawthorne in TNT

The phone rings, a hurried conversation and Nurse Christina Hawthorne dashes to the hospital, avoiding security and helping a wandering elderly patient as she rushes to console a friend and fatally ill cancer patient from jumping off the roof. She fails. Soon after, she’s arrested under protest for roughing up the security guard. So goes the first few minutes from the pilot episode of TNT’s latest drama, Hawthorne starring Jada Pinkett Smith.

As the episode progresses we’re given a day-in-the-life of a hospital from the views of the often unsung heroes – the nurses. While much of the show involves the often trivial tasks that take place throughout the day, the supporting characters and their stories slowly start to manifest peaking your curiosity and drawing you in.

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I’ve actually never seen the show starring Zack Morris, aka Mark-Paul Gosselaar, as a floppy-haired lawyer-type, but I have seen plenty of billboards for the series around town. On that note, TNT has announced via e-mail that it will pay commuters’ tolls at the GA 400 Toll Plaza going both directions on Mon., June 8, from 7-9 a.m.

Traffic will be a little bit nicer this Friday and Monday, when TNT springs for tolls in four major metropolitan areas to remind drivers to watch return of the network’s hit legal drama, RAISING THE BAR. Drivers in each location will be treated to free toll passage as they pass through toll plazas informing motorists about the series’ Monday, June 8, season premiere.

This marks the second year TNT has used a tollbooth campaign to promote RAISING THE BAR.  Last year’s campaign took place just before the series’ record-breaking premiere on Labor Day.

Year two of a tollboth promotional campaign? Who knew?

The press release doesn’t explain how motorists will be “informed” about the series premiere — hopefully it won’t involve everyone still having to stop at a cashier to be told. In any case, GA 400 commuters, as well as drivers in Orlando, Philadelphia/Atlantic City and Boston will have a little extra jangle in their pockets this Friday and Monday.

(Photo courtesy ABC Studios)

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