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“The Pitt” captured the hearts of audiences with its gritty and authentic portrayal of American healthcare workers five years after the Covid outbreak. When the chaos of the emergency room brings forth a personal tragedy for senior attending physician Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle), the mission statement of the Max medical drama comes into impressive focus.

The 15-episode series follows a team of doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals through an eventful shift at a Pittsburgh trauma center in real time. While most medical shows would lean into rare diseases or romantic plotlines to add drama to the proceedings, the team behind “The Pitt” leaned into a verité approach to its storytelling and filming — a move that has given the show a rare stamp of approval from the medical community.

“The idea for the show was really to have this immersive feeling with the camera, we are a part of the team...

It's funny to think that, with how many medical dramas exist, all anyone had to do to stand out was to just show audiences what being a doctor is actually like. HBO Max's hit series "The Pitt" has been praised as one of the most accurate medical dramas ever made, with the show proving to be a huge success among general audiences and real doctors alike. The secret, it seems, was to make the show as realistic as possible. Not only does "The Pitt" make a point of not using music at all, but the cast of "The Pitt" is mostly up-and-coming actors without much of a public profile. A naturalistic, handheld filming style heightens the sense of realism, as does the production design, which is so good you might well be convinced the series was shot in a real hospital.

It would make sense, after all. If you were...

Editor’s note: Deadline’s It Starts on the Page (Drama) features 10 standout drama series scripts in 2025 Emmy contention.

When Noah Wyle reunited with ER producers John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill to make HBO Max’s The Pitt, the plan was to offer a realistic portrayal of healthcare today through the lens of harried pros working in a fictitious Pittsburgh hospital.

What they didn’t expect was how their 15-episode drama would singlehandedly reinvigorate a genre that has grown predictable and downright exhausting with overused tropes and kooky, case-of-the-week tales.

In this telling, the trio of ER alums have crafted an engrossing saga that chronicles a typical 15-hour day in a trauma hospital. Beginning with the premiere episode “7:00 A.M.,” penned by Gemmill and directed by Wells, The Pitt introduces us to Wyle’s Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, who – on the anniversary of...

Max's "The Pitt" is the best medical drama in years, with the show being praised for its accuracy and bringing the stress of emergency rooms to the screen. "The Pitt" follows the frontline healthcare workers in a Pittsburgh-based hospital as they deal with all manner of incidents in real time, leaving them with very little room to relax. What's more, the cast of the Noah Wyle-led series had to follow strict rules on the set to ensure that every episode felt like a living, breathing hospital environment, further adding to the series' sense of verisimilitude.

While the show is very meticulous in some ways, it also had a somewhat unconventional journey to the screen. For example, one of the best scenes in "The Pitt" season 1 was shot before the series was fully written, but the creators made it work all the same. Not only that, but the show's writers...

Doctors are often medical shows’ harshest critics, but “The Pitt” seems to be the one they actually like. Doctors credit Max’s scripted medical drama, which spends a season exploring 15 hours in a Pittsburgh ER, with capturing the experience of working in a 2025 emergency room.

“The other thing that’s really great is the emergency workers who say, ‘For years, I’ve tried to explain to my family what I do in the emergency department, and I can never put it into words,’” said co-executive producer Dr. Joe Sachs. “ They could never explain, ‘What I go through,’ and when they watch an episode of the show, they get it and they understand.”

For decades, real-life cops, lawyers, and doctors have helped TV procedurals with their stories. So what does “The Pitt” do that’s different? That’s the question IndieWire posed to Sachs as well as medical consultants Dr. Jacob Lentz,...

As The Pitt wraps its first season, the Noah Wyle-starring Max medical drama has only grown in positive reception and awards prospects. The series covers a 15-hour ER shift over 15 episodes (effectively in real time), and Wyle himself has received much-deserved praise for his work as Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, particularly around his stunning performance in the series’ 13th episode. There are many reasons for the series' success, including Wyle, the talented cast, and the inherent constant tension of the premise. One key element, however, boils down to its uniquely heightened emphasis on realism.

During a set visit to the Warner Bros. lot, the cast and creative team discussed how different aspects of the series were designed to reflect real emergency rooms and ER experiences. The set itself is modeled after a real hospital wing. "We had the set design before we started writing because there is no way...

The addictive and adrenaline-fueled medical drama "The Pitt" is such a whirlwind that, once you really get into the thick of things, it becomes increasingly hard to remember how the first episode even started. That's because, unlike most medical dramas, "The Pitt" essentially unfolds in real time, with each episode standing in for an hour of a single, trauma-filled day at a fictional Pittsburgh hospital's emergency department. This only further contributes to the sense of events blurring together, especially as viewers find themselves hours-deep into the healthcare worker experience. Still, if you think back to the premiere episode's 7:00 am breath of fresh air, you may recall getting a glimpse of the real Pittsburgh skyline.

The hospital in "The Pitt" may be fake, but it's aesthetically inspired by a real Pittsburgh location, and a few key moments of the show were actually shot on location. For the most part, though,...

Acclaimed director Charles Burnett is finally getting the proper release for his lost feature “The Annihilation of Fish.”

IndieWire can announce that the 1999 film has landed a 4K restoration and theatrical release. “The Annihilation of Fish” first screened at the 1999 Toronto International Film Festival and was acquired for distribution; however, the distributor canceled the film’s release after one bad review in Variety. “The Annihilation of Fish” has never been available on all media anywhere for almost 30 years.

“The Annihilation of Fish” stars Lynn Redgrave as Poinsettia, a former housewife with an imagined lover in the form of 19th-century composer Giacomo Puccini. She moves into a Los Angeles boarding house with an energetic landlady (Margot Kidder) where she meets a Jamaican widower, Fish (James Earl Jones), who has recently been released from a mental institution despite his continued battles against unseen demons. In the face of personal challenges and differences,...

The house central to the plot of Liz Feldman’s Netflix series “No Good Deed” should make you drool — and then question just how much stock you put in where you live. A gorgeous Spanish revival house in the Los Feliz neighborhood of L.A. might seem like a quick fix to a lot of problems, but as production designer Nina Ruscio told IndieWire, “Wherever you go, there you are.”

But good luck finding the house Lydia (Lisa Kudrow) and Paul Morgan (Ray Romano) are trying to sell; the exterior is real, but the Architectural Digest-ready interior is pure fabrication.

“ The driving force is that everybody wants to have this home,” Ruscio said. “So how could I create an experience for people seeing it that made it aspirational enough to cross a lot of different character types?”

As usual, the answer was in the details. The Spanish-style house is an immediately recognizable staple of L.

In the world of real estate, a building often goes to the highest bidder in a world of survival of the fittest, but things change when a coveted house might hold some dark secrets that its sellers want to outrun.

Liz Feldman’s new Netflix series follows four couples total as the story centers around Paul and Lydia Morgan, played by Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow, who want to sell their gorgeous house to move on from past trauma. Three pairs of people take intense interest in the house, but between the truth behind what happened there three years ago and various secrets the three couples — Jd Campbell (Luke Wilson) and Margo Starling (Linda Cardellini), Dennis Sampson (O-t Fagbenle) and Carla Owens (Teyonah Parris) and Leslie Fisher (Abbi Jacobson) and Sarah Weber (Poppy Liu) — have of their own, the prospective buyer status changes, sometimes by the episode.

The idea for...

A sneak preview of the “Squid Game” Season 2 is among the series set to be in the spotlight as Netflix unveils the return of its fall/winter awards campaign event “The Fall Edit: An FYSee Showcase” next month. This year’s gathering will take place over two weekends (Nov. 2-3 and Nov. 10) at Netflix’s Tudum Theater in Hollywood.

Contenders in drama, comedy and limited series include series that just won Emmys last month, including “Baby Reindeer” and “Ripley,” as well as new smash entry “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” and Season 2 of “The Diplomat.” Besides “Nobody Wants This,” special advance screens of upcoming new comedies “No Good Deed” (from Liz Feldman) and “A Man on the Inside” (from Mike Schur) will be featured.

Here’s a schedule of events:

Saturday, November 2, 2024

“Baby Reindeer”: “Creator, executive producer and writer Richard Gadd, alongside Emmy Award winner Jessica Gunning...

“Fatal Attraction” production designer Nina Ruscio’s visual challenge was taking on an iconic movie, paying homage to it and finding a way to put her creative stamp on it by taking it into 2023.

In the eight-part Paramount+ series, Joshua Jackson stars as Dan Gallagher with Lizzy Caplan as Alex Forrest, roles originated by Michael Douglas and Glenn Close in the original film. And while it’s not a remake, the creative team stressed, it’s an expanded adaptation that provides more insight into Alex’s behavior after an affair with a married man drives her to obsession. The series covers Alex’s struggles with her mental health, but it’s also an erotic thriller.

To tap into Ruscio’s behavior and show her state of mind, Ruscio paid close attention to Alex’s apartment. In contrast, Dan’s world was rooted in the courtroom.

Here the production designer breaks...

Nina Ruscio remembers seeing the blockbuster psychosexual thriller “Fatal Attraction” when it was released in 1987 and the controversy that followed it, the “deep psychic weight” and “issues of misogyny and mental health” that surrounded the hit about marriage and infidelity that starred Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer. “It crossed a lot of the wires of psychic intensity at the time,” she recalls. So when the opportunity arose for Ruscio to serve as the production designer on the new eight-part “Fatal Attraction” reboot for Paramount+, she knew that if she signed on, there was some risk she’d find herself in the middle of a new firestorm. But she trusted her instincts in saying yes.

“I was attracted to (showrunner) Alexandra Cunningham’s intention to actually reset the story in a contemporary time look and at Alex’s reasons for her circumstance,” Ruscio says, “and Dan’s for his,...

Character actress Kate Williamson, who played Mrs. Rogers on ABC’s Ellen and turned in supporting roles in films including Barry Levinson’s Disclosure, Dahmer, Dream Lover, and Racing with the Moon, died Friday evening at her Encino, CA home. She was 82. Williamson, born Robina Jane Sparks, was the daughter of actress/singer Nydia Westman and producer/writer Salathiel Robert Sparks. In 1954 she married actor and acting teacher Al Ruscio, whose credits include The Godfather, Part III , Life Goes On, and Seinfeld. Ruscio had served on the SAG board of directors and died less than a month ago on November 12. The couple leaves behind four children, three of whom also went into showbiz: Actress and poet Elizabeth Ruscio, director and editor Michael Ruscio, production designer Nina Ruscio and teacher Maria Ruscio. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to The Actors’ Fund of America, 729 7th Ave., Floor 10, New York,...

This review was written for the theatrical release of "Are We Done Yet?"

Mr. Cube builds his dream house in "Are We Done Yet?" which essentially takes the "Are We There Yet?" characters and grafts them into the basic plot line for the classic RKO comedy "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House," in which Cary Grant played Mr. Blandings, a man who predated "Green Acres' " Oliver Douglas by a couple of decades.

While the refurbished version would never be taken as an improvement over the original, it makes for a generally inoffensive hour-and-a-half, and with a certifiably gonzo John C. McGinley providing the bulk of the laughs, it is definitely less obnoxious than those "Cheaper by the Dozen" remakes.

It also is better than the 2005 Ice Cube comedy that still managed to gross a highly respectable $82 million. Given the new film's pre-Easter weekend release strategy, it should play well with kids and home improvement fanatics, though others could find themselves relating to the title on more than one occasion.

The last time we saw Ice Cube's Nick Persons, he was trapped in an SUV with two kids traveling from Portland to Vancouver. Now fully domesticated, Nick, his bride, Suzanne (Nia Long), and her two growing children (Aleisha Allen, Philip Daniel Bolden) are finding his former bachelor pad a little cramped, and with twins on the way, bigger quarters are required sooner rather than later.

They find the sprawling house of their dreams in the rural Pacific Northwest (courtesy of British Columbia), which affords lots of fresh air and lakeside views. It also proves to be a major money pit, but Persons is so taken in by a local real estate agent's ("Scrubs" regular McGinley) slick sales pitch, he fails to notice all the telltale signs.

As it turns out, McGinley's ingratiating Chuck Mitchell Jr. wears a number of hats, including building inspector and contractor, and before Nick knows what has hit him, Chuck has moved his Airstream trailer into the Persons' yard to oversee the neverending renovations.

Directed by Steve Carr, who helmed Ice Cube's "Next Friday", and adapted by Hank Nelken ("Saving Silverman"), the picture delivers the requisite number of pratfalls, and the genial Ice Cube makes for a credibly hapless everyman, but the comedy still feels a little too safely soft around the edges. A little more inspiration could have made it something enjoyable instead of simply innocuous.

Visually, cinematographer Jack Green, a frequent Clint Eastwood collaborator, effectively captures all those unobstructed, picture-perfect vistas. Production designer Nina Ruscio rightfully lends the house a distinctive character of its own.

Should the Persons family return for another sequel, here's hoping they at least don't take another dip into the RKO vault and turn "Citizen Kane" into "Are We Rich Yet?"

ARE WE DONE YET?

Columbia Pictures

Revolution Studios presents an RKO Pictures/Cube Vision production

Credits:

Director: Steve Carr

Screenwriter: Hank Nelken

Based on characters created by: Steven Gary Banks, Claudio Grazioso

Based on the motion picture "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House," screenplay by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank

Producers: Ted Hartley, Ice Cube, Matt Alvarez, Todd Garner

Executive producers: Heidi Santelli, Aaron Ray, Steve Carr, Derek Dauchy, Neil Machlis

Director of photography: Jack Green

Production designer: Nina Ruscio

Editor: Craig P. Herring

Music: Teddy Castellucci

Cast:

Nick Persons: Ice Cube

Suzanne Persons: Nia Long

Chuck Mitchell Jr.: John C. McGinley

Lindsey Persons: Aleisha Allen

Kevin Persons: Philip Daniel Bolden

Running time -- 92 minutes

MPAA rating: PG...

Mr. Cube builds his dream house in Are We Done Yet? which essentially takes the Are We There Yet? characters and grafts them into the basic plot line for the classic RKO comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, in which Cary Grant played Mr. Blandings, a man who predated "Green Acres' " Oliver Douglas by a couple of decades.

While the refurbished version would never be taken as an improvement over the original, it makes for a generally inoffensive hour-and-a-half, and with a certifiably gonzo John C. McGinley providing the bulk of the laughs, it is definitely less obnoxious than those Cheaper by the Dozen remakes.

It also is better than the 2005 Ice Cube comedy that still managed to gross a highly respectable $82 million. Given the new film's pre-Easter weekend release strategy, it should play well with kids and home improvement fanatics, though others could find themselves relating to the title on more than one occasion.

The last time we saw Ice Cube's Nick Persons, he was trapped in an SUV with two kids traveling from Portland to Vancouver. Now fully domesticated, Nick, his bride, Suzanne (Nia Long), and her two growing children (Aleisha Allen, Philip Daniel Bolden) are finding his former bachelor pad a little cramped, and with twins on the way, bigger quarters are required sooner rather than later.

They find the sprawling house of their dreams in the rural Pacific Northwest (courtesy of British Columbia), which affords lots of fresh air and lakeside views. It also proves to be a major money pit, but Persons is so taken in by a local real estate agent's (Scrubs regular McGinley) slick sales pitch, he fails to notice all the telltale signs.

As it turns out, McGinley's ingratiating Chuck Mitchell Jr. wears a number of hats, including building inspector and contractor, and before Nick knows what has hit him, Chuck has moved his Airstream trailer into the Persons' yard to oversee the neverending renovations.

Directed by Steve Carr, who helmed Ice Cube's Next Friday, and adapted by Hank Nelken (Saving Silverman), the picture delivers the requisite number of pratfalls, and the genial Ice Cube makes for a credibly hapless everyman, but the comedy still feels a little too safely soft around the edges. A little more inspiration could have made it something enjoyable instead of simply innocuous.

Visually, cinematographer Jack Green, a frequent Clint Eastwood collaborator, effectively captures all those unobstructed, picture-perfect vistas. Production designer Nina Ruscio rightfully lends the house a distinctive character of its own.

Should the Persons family return for another sequel, here's hoping they at least don't take another dip into the RKO vault and turn Citizen Kane into "Are We Rich Yet?"

ARE WE DONE YET?

Columbia Pictures

Revolution Studios presents an RKO Pictures/Cube Vision production

Credits:

Director: Steve Carr

Screenwriter: Hank Nelken

Based on characters created by: Steven Gary Banks, Claudio Grazioso

Based on the motion picture "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House," screenplay by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank

Producers: Ted Hartley, Ice Cube, Matt Alvarez, Todd Garner

Executive producers: Heidi Santelli, Aaron Ray, Steve Carr, Derek Dauchy, Neil Machlis

Director of photography: Jack Green

Production designer: Nina Ruscio

Editor: Craig P. Herring

Music: Teddy Castellucci

Cast:

Nick Persons: Ice Cube

Suzanne Persons: Nia Long

Chuck Mitchell Jr.: John C. McGinley

Lindsey Persons: Aleisha Allen

Kevin Persons: Philip Daniel Bolden

Running time -- 92 minutes

MPAA rating: PG...