Here’s the official description from The CW: At long last, Emily Owens feels like she is an actual grown-up. She can finally put her high school days as the geeky-girl-with-flop-sweats behind her; she’s graduated from medical school and is now a first-year intern at Denver Memorial Hospital, where she’ll have the chance to work with world-famous cardiologist Dr. Gina Beckett – and where, not-so-coincidentally, her med-school crush Will Rider is also an intern. So why does everyone keep warning her that the hospital is just like high school? Emily soon finds out the hard way – her high school nemesis, the gorgeous, popular Cassandra Kopelson, is also just starting out at Denver Memorial, and it seems like they’re rivals all over again – not only as surgical interns, but for Will’s attention.

“Fellow intern Tyra Granger warns Emily that the cliques at Denver Memorial are all too familiar: the jocks have become orthopedic surgeons; the mean girls are in plastics; the rebels are in the ER, and Tyra has her own awkward place as the principal’s kid – her father is the chief resident. Emily’s the new kid all over again, and it’s just as awkward as high school. Only this time around, Emily will have to balance the personal and emotional turmoil of social politics with the high-stakes world of life-and-death medical decisions. At least she has fellow intern Tyra and nerdy-but-cute resident Micah, to count on as friends. Emily is growing to realize that although she may be a geek, she may also grow to be a great doctor, flop sweats and all. The series stars Mamie Gummer as Emily, Justin Hartley as Will, Michael Rady as Micah, Aja Naomi King as Cassandra, Kelly McCreary as Tyra and Necar Zadegan as Gina. ‘Emily Owens, M.D.’ is from CBS Television Studios and Warner Bros. Television with executive producers Jennie Snyder Urman (’90210,’ ‘Lipstick Jungle’), Dan Jinks (‘Pushing Daisies,’ ‘Milk’) and Bharat Nalluri (‘Tsunami’). The pilot was directed by Bharat Nalluri.

Her work in the theater attracted the discerning eye of CBS casting director Mark Saks, who cast Gummer as Nancy Crozier, a super-perky yet devious attorney on “The Good Wife.” He says he felt no pressure to cast her because of her lineage. “Years ago, I was the casting director on ‘Defending Your Life,’ and I knew Meryl,” he says. “I knew about her before she hit the scene. I sort of chased her. When she came in for Nancy, it was between her and Lily Rabe. We had a long conversation about who would really find the character. Mamie’s really interesting when she plays things with curves in it.” Gummer’s fall pilot, “First Cut,” is about a young doctor in Denver who finds that life in the hospital is no different than life in high school.

“It doesn’t pander to anyone,” she says with some relief. “It’s pretty smart, a solid alternative to the other girls’ shows. It gives [viewers] another option in case they don’t want to watch vampires. In case they want to do their homework and become surgeons.” If the series gets picked up, Gummer will film in Vancouver, making a two-actor marriage a frequent-flier proposition. “Yeah, we’ll just go back and forth, back and forth.” She and Walker, whom she met while they were both performing in “Dangerous Liaisons,” live in Park Slope and Gummer says, “We’re doing all right. Maintaining a solid middle.” Asked if it’s a burden to be the daughter of Meryl Streep, Gummer quickly replies, “No. It’s a lot of things. Well, it’s not a burden. It’s not a nuisance. It’s hard to even put a label on it. Cause it’s my reality. I have nothing else to compare it to.” And Mom comes in handy when Gummer needs advice on which project to choose. “She’ll read scripts when I have to make a decision between two of them,” Gummer says. “She’ll tell you what’s what.”