Last week, NBC reran ER's "On The Beach" episode, featuring the death of Dr. Mark Greene, a.k.a. actor Anthony Edwards. While exec producer John Wells is Emmy-nominated for writing this affecting send-off, it surprised some that Edwards himself isn't honored this year. A goodbye nod would've been sweet — especially since he's previously been nominated four times for ER, but never won.

"I've never really taken awards very seriously," Edwards tells TV Guide Online. "I've been fortunate and won a bunch, but I never wanted to put myself in a position of feeling bad for being kicked out of a party that I didn't necessarily want to go to.

"You know," he adds dismissively, "[Emmys] are a nice compliment, but they're really not reflective of anything but whatever the mood is."

So now that Edwards has doffed his doctor's scrubs and that eye patch — which he wore for Dr. Greene's brain tumor — what's next? Grins the 40-year-old: "I just produced a movie with my partner Dante Di Loreto called Die, Mommy, Die!, which Charles Busch wrote and stars in."

This fall, Fastlane's Peter Facinelli isn't Fox's only new star who'll bare his derriere on the air. In John Doe — debuting tomorrow at 9 pm/ET — viewers will see leading man Dominic Purcell awaken with amnesia on a deserted isle. In that opening shot, he's nude, posed in the fetal position on the ground. Then, his character flashes his tush again when he falls off a cliff!

"I have to give the stunt guy credit for that," Purcell admits to TV Guide Online, laughing. "That's not my ass. I wish it was. No, I wanted to do [the fall], but they wouldn't let me do it for insurance reasons. It's a stunt ass!"

The Aussie cutie wants to clarify one thing, though: "In the first scene, I'm naked there. That's me lying down. That's me. You will see my ass!" Well, isn't that a comfort. Purcell says he doesn't mind showcasing his, um, assets "just as long as there are limits to it. I'm fine if it's done in good taste and relevant to the scene."

Fortunately, Purcell's stage presence is doing more to raise his profile in Hollywood than his bum is! As if starring in his own TV series weren't impressive enough, he also co-stars with Christian Bale in Equilibrium (due out Dec. 6). The sci-fi thriller imagines a future where the government over-medicates the populace to keep us "controlled, in a zombie-like state."