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One of the most highly anticipated shows making a comeback is The Pitt. Fortunately for fans, the wait won’t be too long. The Pitt season 2 is officially set to premiere on HBO Max in January 2026. But that’s not the only exciting news. The hit medical drama has just revealed its first new cast members for the upcoming season, promising fresh faces and new storylines ahead.

According to Deadline, The Pitt is expanding its cast for season 2 by adding four new recurring cast members. Charles Baker, Irene Choi, Laëtitia Hollard, and Lucas Iverson have all been cast in the medical drama's second installment. Each actor will portray a new character.

Baker will reportedly play Troy, an unhoused man who becomes a patient in the emergency department (Ed). Choi takes on the character of Joy, a knowledgeable third-year medical student who has strong boundaries and a deep understanding of medicine that often explores its darker,...

Like a defibrillator steadies an irregular heartbeat, so has HBO Max’s The Pitt jolted audiences and critics alike into confronting the pitfalls of the American healthcare system — and the fact that many stoic, deeply human practitioners keep the medicine pumping just long enough, day-in and day-out, amid dwindling resources and respect.

Created by R. Scott Gemmill and executive produced by director John Wells and star/writer Noah Wyle, the medical drama follows — hour-by-hour — the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency department and its frontline workers over the course of a relentless 15-hour shift, as they navigate personal and professional crises. Tackling post-covid nursing shortages and anti-vax stances, inceldom and abortion rights, the series’ incisive exploration triages not just its ailing patients, but the sickness of a nation unable, or rather unwilling, to provide adequate care — a burden that must be shouldered by the likes of Shawn Hatosy’s fan-favorite Dr.

The Pitt’s ensemble is growing by four.

As production on Season 2 of the acclaimed medical drama gets underway, TVLine is able to confirm the following cast additions: Charles Baker (aka Breaking Bad’s Skinny Pete), Irene Choi (Insatiable), and relative newcomers Lucas Iverson and Laëtitia Hollard.

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Exclusive: HBO Max’s The Pitt has added four to its recurring cast for Season 2, including Charles Baker, Irene Choi, Laëtitia Hollard and Lucas Iverson (Shakespeare Theatre Co.’s Frankenstein).

Sources tell Deadline the names and brief descriptions of each character; however, these are always subject to change.

Baker will play Troy, an unhoused man forgotten by most, and a patient in the Ed.

Choi will play Joy, a third-year medical student with strong boundaries and a vast knowledge of medicine that leans toward the macabre.

Hollard will play Emma, a recent nursing school graduate, who some may consider naive.

Iverson will play James, a fourth-year medical student.

From creator R. Scott Gemmill and producer John Wells, The Pitt chronicles the urgent challenges U.S. frontline healthcare professionals face through the lens of the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency department.

This was clearly not the reaction that Noah Wyle was expecting from his starring role on The Pitt. While appearing on a recent installment of The Jennifer Hudson Show, the eponymous host caught the actor off guard by blurting out, “I don’t want to get you blushing again, but the internet be crushing on you.” As Wyle’s face turned cherry red, Hudson began reading off social media comments like “thank you for setting unrealistic expectations about how hot my male doctors would be in my life” and “you got no business being that sexy.”

“Do you ever get used to that kind of attention?” asked Hudson.

While attempting to mask his rouged mug, Wyle could only laugh and shake his head.

Ever since Max began streaming the drama about life in a fictitious Pittsburgh emergency room, it’s been one pinch-me moment after another for Wyle and his...

The stunning Bryan Cranston, who has left audiences of pretty much all age groups baffled with his exceptional performances, is currently standing tall and proud of something other than his own masterpieces: His daughter, Taylor Dearder, who is currently riding high on the tides of success through her splendid work in The Pitt.

A 32-year-old actress who has earned some fairly praiseworthy credits under her name, Dearden is the Breaking Bad star’s daughter, and her performance in the recently concluded critically acclaimed medical drama TV series is being widely applauded. And Cranston, for one, couldn’t feel happier and prouder of his daughter’s success.

Bryan Cranston is proud of Taylor Dearden’s The Pitt’s success Taylor Dearden as Dr. King| Credits: The Pitt / Max.

A medical drama television series created by R. Scott Gemmill, The Pitt features a realistic exploration of the challenges that healthcare workers have to face in America,...

Whatta night! Producers and showrunners from “The Last of Us,” “Severance,” “Paradise,” “The Pitt,” “Nobody Wants This,” “Abbott Elementary,” “Hacks,” “Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story,” “The Penguin” and more shows swapped stories at Variety’s A Night in the Writers’ Room event on June 5 at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills.

For the first time, we collected the audio from the evening’s three panels devoted to drama, comedy and limited series, and included them as a bonus edition of the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast. Listen below!

Congrats to associate publisher Donna Pennestri and her team for organizing a great event, which boasted three lively panels as moderated by Emily Longeretta, Jazz Tangcay and Michael Schneider.

This past year has presented us with an ever-changing landscape in our industry. Writers are pushing boundaries, telling diverse stories, and exploring new formats that captivate viewers in ways we could only dream of a decade ago.

If you thought The Pitt season 2 couldn’t possibly top the chaotic magic of its debut, think again. After blowing up on Max with its real-time, 15-hour ER format and marking a powerful return for Noah Wyle as Dr. Robby Robinavitch, this gritty hospital drama is clocking back in for another round. And yes, it’s bringing the emotional wreckage, medical chaos, and yes—even hot dog–related emergencies straight to your screen.

With the hype building fast, fans are already gearing up for a bloodier, bolder, and possibly more unhinged shift in Pittsburgh’s most unpredictable emergency room. From returning faves and career redemptions to Fourth of July madness and literal fireworks disasters.

The Pitt Season 2 is set to raise the stakes while digging deeper into its core characters. Whether you came for the heart-stopping cases or the raw, personal drama, here’s everything we know so far about the next shift.

Before "The Pitt" debuted on HBO Max, Warner Bros. and the show's creators faced a lawsuit from Sherri Crichton, widow of "Jurassic Park" author Michael Crichton. The writer previously created "ER," which starred Noah Wyle as Dr. John Carter and was written and produced by R. Scott Gemmill alongside John Wells, who also served as its showrunner. These are the same men responsible for developing "The Pitt," and the Crichton estate wasn't exactly happy about them making what they saw as a blatant "ER" rip-off.

If you ask Wells, Wyle, and Gemmill, however, they had a very specific goal in mind with "The Pitt" — one which clearly separates the show from "ER." As Wyle told Variety, "Our intent with 'The Pitt' is to examine and contribute to the public discussion on the challenges facing emergency medical providers in the post-covid world." In the series, we see this represented through Wyle's character,...

The first season of Max's first original medical drama, The Pitt, turned out to be an incredibly successful one, and it's fair to say that audiences can't wait to return to the ER for yet another season. Max will deliver on a second season early next year and the staff of Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center will return with ER veteran Noah Wyle at the helm as Dr. Robby. Much of the medical drama's first season saw the action play out within the confines of the hospital as the show takes place in real time. Each episode covers an hour of the one shift shown across the season with very few sightings of the hospital staff outside the hospital. So, will that change in Season 2? Will audiences get to follow staff home in the sophomore season?

Some members of staff had to depart the hospital at various points during the first season.

The following contains major spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2.Horror series The Last of Usrecently ended its second season, effectively dividing worldwide audience for a variety of reasons. Those who managed to stay until the end faced a cliffhanger conclusion that left questions unanswered. They also had the bittersweet aftertaste one gets when a fan-favorite series ends, and you have nothing to do but wait a few years until it returns. One of the most controversial narrative decisions has to do with – Spoiler Alert – the death of Season 1's central character, Joel. As necessary as it was to follow the original story from the video game franchise, many fans of the show were left dumbstruck. And according to showrunner Craig Mazin, some have taken their love for the show a little bit too far.

Mazin and Neil Druckmann, the other showrunner of the HBO series, spoke to Variety...

There's not exactly a dearth of medical dramas, which makes the success of HBO Max's "The Pitt" all the more impressive. How do you set yourself apart in such a saturated market? Well, it turns out the answer is just to show people what it's actually like to be a doctor. Turns out the "drama" part of the medical drama is ready-made, especially when it comes to emergency medicine. With "The Pitt," show creator R. Scott Gemmill and his fellow "ER" alums John Wells and Noah Wyle set out to showcase that drama in as realistic a way as possible, knowing that the profession itself provided more than enough conflict, tragedy, and intrigue.

After it debuted in January 2025, "The Pitt" was immediately praised for its remarkable medical accuracy. It helps that "The Pitt" has a secret weapon in the form of a medical advisor who never let the cast and...

Due to the format of The Pitt, we only very briefly saw any of the hospital staff outside of the hospital during its first season. The hit HBO Max medical drama takes place in real time, with each episode covering an hour of the one shift shown across the season. The finale did see Robby (Noah Wyle), Abbot (Shawn Hatosy), Mohan (Supriya Ganesh), Javadi (Shabana Azeez), and other members of the staff gather in the park across the street from the hospital for a post-shift beer. It also followed King (Taylor Dearden) as she picked up her sister. But executive producers R. Scott Gemmill and John Wells don’t see the show ever going home with the characters or leaving the hospital in a significant way. “I don’t think we’ll ever go home with our characters,” Gemmill told TV Insider during Season 1. “I think what makes this show...

Without "ER" (one of the best medical shows ever), there would be no "The Pitt" today. Essentially the love child of three people — R. Scott Gemmill, Noah Wyle, and John Wells — who worked together on the former decades ago, HBO Max's drama has become the latest TV sensation in the medical genre. It's also not a coincidence that Wyle, who played Dr. John Carter on "ER" (one of the series' most intriguing and nuanced characters), was chosen to lead "The Pitt" as Dr. Robby, a senior attending physician of the emergency room in a Philadelphia hospital.

Playing Carter for over 15 years, Wyle became a TV doctor (and empath) that viewers trusted. If you haven't seen "ER" in a while, it's easy to forget how layered, humanly written, and likable Carter was from the beginning. From being practically a fly on the emergency department's wall (as a third-year medical student...

No, Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann didn’t kill Pedro Pascal. That was just one key messaging point delivered during Variety‘s A Night in the Writers’ Room on Thursday night.

Although this was the drama panel, many hilarious conversations came out of the discussion moderated by Variety‘s senior TV features editor Emily Longeretta. In addition to “The Last of Us” creators, panelists included “Severance” creator Dan Erickson, “Paradise” creator Dan Fogelman, “The Pitt” creator R. Scott Gemmill, “Doc” creator Barbie Kligman, “Yellowjackets” co-creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson and “Cross” creator Ben Watkins.

While discussing the pressures of following a stellar first season with a second one — Mazin and Druckmann shed light on the ups and downs.

“There’s this thing that happens when you’re making the first season of something where you truly are just rolling down a hill on fire. If you stay alive, that’s a huge achievement.

2025's excellent medical drama, The Pitt, has proved to be an impactful show that revitalized the genre's popularity beyond expectations. It was realistic and raw in how it mirrors the experience of real-life healthcare workers. It was also an emotional ride with compelling characters who kept us hooked for weeks on their 15-hour shift at the ER of the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital. All the performances were staggering, but it was Noah Wyle's which stood out the most. His performance as Dr. Michael Robinavitch, a.k.a. Robby is one of the year's best, and his co-star in the classic show ER, Hollywood (and now Broadway) legend George Clooney, agrees with this.

As reported by TV Insider, the O Brother, Where Art Thou? and From Dusk Till Dawn star appeared on the show Late Night with Seth Meyers to promote his current Broadway hit, Good Night, and Good Luck.

Yes, George Clooney has seen The Pitt and he loves it. During an appearance on Monday’s Late Night With Seth Meyers, Clooney sang the praises of his former ER co-star Noah Wyle’s new medical drama.

“It’s so good, and I have to say: We’ve been really dear friends since [ER] — since we did the pilot of the show,” the Oscar winner told the chat show host. “He is just the most honorable, talented young man, [which] I get to say because I’m an old man, and I cannot be happier for his success on the show. The show is just a beautiful show, and he does just a great job with it.” Clooney and Wyle worked together on ER for five seasons before Clooney left to focus on his film career.

The Pitt is a medical procedural drama that was created and produced by R. Scott Gemmill,...

Everyone can finally relax — George Clooney likes "The Pitt."

During an appearance on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" on June 3, Clooney — who's nominated for a Tony Award for "Good Night and Good Luck," the 2025 Broadway stage adaptation of his 2005 film about Edward R. Murrow — Clooney, while discussing both his time on "ER" and the strangely named sitcom that preceded it, "E/R," brought up his colleague and friend Noah Wyle's hit HBO Max series "The Pitt."

"Have you guys seen that show?" Clooney asked the audience, who cheered with approval. "It's so good, and you know, I have to say, we've been really dear friends since the show, since we did the pilot of the show," he added warmly, speaking about Wyle. "He is just the most honorable, talented young man, I get to say, because I'm an old man. And I cannot be happier for his success on this show.

The 2024-2025 TV season has ended and, for everyone who kept pace, it was an enthralling one, with networks dishing out new seasons of our favorite shows. Some new shows were introduced and made quite a splash in the pool. Max's first original medical drama, The Pitt, enjoyed a successful first season. The series' lead role of Dr. Robby was ER veteran Noah Wyle, who is supported by an ensemble of stars who perfectly fill out the staff of Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center while curating memorable moments onscreen. One of those is Dr. Frank Langdon (Patrick Ball).

By the time the season finale of The Pitt had aired, there were several questions up in the air, including whether certain characters would be returning for a second season. Ball's Langdon is one of those with an uncertain future with his troubles with addiction presenting a challenge. Despite Langdon rejecting Robby's five-year program for rehabilitation,...

Hollywood icon and original ER star George Clooney praises Noah Wyle and The Pitt.

Per TV Insider, Clooney discussed The Pitt and the show's star's success with the series during an appearance on Late Nite with Seth Meyers. "It's so good," Clooney said. "I have to say, we've been really dear friends since, you know, since the show, since we did the pilot of the show. [Noah] is just the most honorable, talented young man, I get to say because I'm an old man, and I cannot be happier for his success on the show."

"The show is just a beautiful show and he does a great job with it," Clooney added. Clooney, who serves as executive producer and stars as Doctor Michael "Robby" Robinavitch on the hit series, previously worked with Wyle on ER. Clooney went on to recall his own difficulties with certain lines on ER, particularly those...

Damian Marcano was directing a John Wells show, MGM+'s Emperor of Ocean Park, last year when the producer wanted to meet with him about a new medical drama he was working on. So he Zoomed with Wells and creator R. Scott Gemmill to hear all about The Pitt.

"I think for most of us, it was wrapping your head around what this was," Marcano tells Gold Derby. "Some of the technical stuff, obviously, were the fun beats. You're like, 'Oh, Ok, wow. And we're doing this in real time, and we're doing this and we're doing that.' So I think for any director, especially in this system with budgets and it's not independent, I say it's a thing that you try to pick the right work that you're also going to excel at."

Marcano, whose credits include Lawmen: Bass Reeves and Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,...

The Gotham Film & Media Institute announced the winners of the second annual Gotham Television Awards 2025 at a ceremony held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Netflix’s Adolescence won Breakthrough Limited Series. The show, which follows the aftermath of a school murder committed by a 13-year-old boy, also picked up two acting awards. Stephen Graham won Outstanding Lead Performance in a Limited Series, and Owen Cooper won Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Limited Series. Jenny Slate received the same supporting performance award for her role in Dying for Sex.

The Studio, a workplace comedy about a team of studio executives navigating Hollywood, won Breakthrough Comedy Series. Julio Torres won Outstanding Lead Performance in a Comedy Series for Fantasmas, and Poorna Jagannathan won Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Comedy Series for Deli Boys. HBO’s The Pitt, set entirely inside a Pittsburgh hospital, won Breakthrough Drama Series. Kathy Bates...

George Clooney is sending Noah Wyle his praises for his work on The Pitt.

The former ER co-stars have remained friends since working on the NBC medical drama, and while appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Clooney expressed his happiness over Wyle’s success.

“Have you guys seen that show?” Clooney asks the audience after Meyers brought it up. “It’s so good.”

Clooney then recalled that he and Wyle have “been really dear friends since we did the pilot [for ER],” adding, “He is just the most honorable, talented young man. I get to say [that] because I’m an old man and I cannot be happier for his success on the show. The show is just a beautiful show, and he does just a great job with it.”

The Pitt is a medical procedural drama that premiered on HBO Max in January of this year. R. Scott Gemmill, with whom Wyle worked on ER,...

Patrick Ball has provided an update on the second season of The Pitt, which will return to HBO Max next year.

The newcomer had his breakout role playing Dr. Langdon on the acclaimed series, but his future on the show was up in the air after he was sent home upon the discovery that he’s an addict and stealing pills.

Executive producer R. Scott Gemmill previously told TV Insider that the second season will take place 10 months after the first season and will be Langdon’s first day back in the hospital.

Now, Patrick is sharing an update on season two.

Keep reading to find out more…

“This just in,” Patrick wrote on Instagram along with a screencap of an email he received on Monday (June 2) with the Episode 201 prep draft.

Patrick replied in the email chain, “Lfgggggg.”

Check out the photo below!

HBO has confirmed when The Pitt will return for season two.

We’re getting closer and closer to Emmy Awards nominations coming out and the 2025 Gotham Television Awards will give you a little preview of what’s to come.

A star-studded crowd attended The Gotham Film & Media Institute’s second annual awards ceremony on Monday night (June 2) at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

Adolescence, The Studio, and The Pitt were among the big winners of the night, along with special honors presented to actors from The White Lotus and The Handmaid’s Tale.

Some of the major stars in attendance at the event included Renee Zellweger, Elisabeth Moss, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Brian Tyree Henry, Rachel Brosnahan, The Pitt‘s Noah Wyle and Shawn Hatosy, and The White Lotus stars Parker Posey, Leslie Bibb, Sam Rockwell, and Sam Nivola.

Head inside to see the full winners list and all of the attendees…

Check out the full winners list below and...

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...

Panels for shows like ‘House of the Dragon’ and others are launching on Max as it prepares its campaign to sway Emmy voters.

Last year, Max tried a unique tactic in order to win over more Emmy voters over: the platform made its For Your Consideration panels available for subscribers to stream on the service. Several shows on Max won big at the 2024 Emmy Awards, and the panels may have helped to sway some minds. That would explain why Warner Bros. Discovery is bringing back those panels in 2025, as announced on Tuesday.

Key Details: Available now: Max’s For Your Consideration panels are available as of Tuesday, June 3. Access galore: The panels offer access to talent both in front of and behind the camera. Best of the best: Panels for “Dune: Prophecy,” “The Pitt,” and more are available. Sign Up $9.99+ / month max via prime video

These For Your Consideration panels...

Adolescence topped the 2025 Gotham TV Awards Monday night, sweeping the limited categories and converting three of its four nominations into wins.

The Netflix series, which follows the aftermath after a teenage boy is accused of murder, won Breakthrough Limited Series, BestLead Performance in a Limited Series for Stephen Graham, and Best Supporting Performance in a Limited Series for Owen Cooper, who won in a tie with Dying for Sex's Jenny Slate. Adolescence's fourth nomination was for Erin Doherty's supporting turn.

The Studio won Breakthrough Comedy Series, while The Pitt nabbed Breakthrough Drama Series.

Fantasmas' Julio Torres and Deli Boys' Poorna Jagannathan took home the lead and supporting comedy acting prizes, respectively. After winning the Critics Choice Award earlier this year, Kathy Bates won Best Lead Performance in a Drama Series for Matlock. The supporting award went to Ben Whishaw for Black Doves.

Pee-wee as Himself was named Best Original Film,...

The ceremony for the second annual Gotham Television Awards concluded Monday night in New York City, where winners for the year’s best in TV were revealed as the small-screen awards season hits high gear.

Netflix’s Adolescence led all nominees coming into the night with four, winning all of its fields; it tied in the supporting performance category with Owen Cooper’s win and Jenny Slate’s accolade for Dying for Sex. Meanwhile, Max’s The Pitt, CBS’ Matlock and FX/Hulu’s Dying for Sex, which had three noms apiece, took home a Gotham each; the former clinched the Breakout Drama category, while Kathy Bates won for lead performance in a drama. Apple TV+’s The Studio won the Breakthrough Comedy Series award.

The newly created category of Outstanding Original Film, Broadcast or Streaming went to HBO/Max’s documentary Pee-wee as Himself.

This year’s Gothams also...

It was a big night for television, as Emmy favorites descended upon Cipriani Wall Street in New York City for the second annual Gotham TV Awards. Launched in 2024, the TV branch of the beloved indie film award show continues to stake out an early position on the calendar that could eventually make it a barometer for the Emmy race in a way that mirrors the Gotham Awards’ traditional relationship with the Oscars.

The evening’s big winners included “Adolescence,” which completed a sweep of the limited series categories with wins for Breakthrough Limited Series and Outstanding Lead Performance in a Limited Series (for Stephen Graham), while Owen Cooper shared the Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Limited Series award with Jenny Slate (who was nominated for “Dying for Sex”). Emmy Frontrunners “The Studio” and “The Pitt” also won the Breakthrough Comedy Series and Breakthrough Drama Series categories, respectively.

“Building on the...

The 2025 Gotham TV Awards are underway in Manhattan.

This marks the second year in which the Gotham Awards have broken out TV honors with a separate ceremony during Emmys season.

Netflix’s Adolescence leads this year’s nominees with four nods.

The four-episode series about a teenage boy accused of murder, which became a much-talked-about phenomenon shortly after its streaming debut last month, landed nods for breakthrough limited series, lead performance in a limited series (Stephen Graham) and two nods for supporting performance in a limited series (Owen Cooper and Erin Doherty).

Meanwhile, Max’s The Pitt, FX’s Dying for Sex and CBS’ Matlock each landed three nods, with a number of projects scoring two nods apiece.

Dying for Sex faces off against Adolescence in the limited series category, where additional nominees are Get Millie Back, Penelope and Say Nothing.

The Pitt and Matlock are nominated for breakthrough drama series,...

With The Pitt cast and crew getting ready to get back to work on the hit HBO Max show — director Damian Marcano told TV Insider they’re getting going soon — there are several questions up in the air, including whether or not some characters, including Dr. Langdon (Patrick Ball), will be back. Based on what we learned from executive producers R. Scott Gemmill and John Wells after the Season 1 finale (and the embedded post below from him about the Season 2 premiere script), he will and Season 2 could be a major shift for him. In the middle of Season 1, Gemmill told us that they were thinking of having the next shift be Langdon’s first back after rehab. It was in Episode 10 that Robby (Noah Wyle) discovered that his resident was an addict and had been stealing pills. He sent him home, only for Langdon to return to help out during...

Undoubtedly, creator Dan Erickson's "Severance" was able to capture audiences quickly when the show premiered in 2022 because of its sprawling mystery. First and foremost, the series' premise and plot presented a thrilling and virtually indecipherable enigma that was, at the least, matching the sensation that "Lost" created almost two decades before it. But just like in J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof's classic, we also fell in love with the show because it gave us intriguing, funny, and relatable characters to watch and root for week by week. As much as it was addictive to speculate what Lumon's purpose and ultimate evil plan were, it's also been crucial that we could do that alongside likable and charming characters we inevitably grew close to in the debut season and its follow-up.

Zach Cherry's Dylan, the loudmouth employee of the Macrodata Refinement department, is very much a pivotal member of...

The Pitt is one of the hottest new shows on television. Set in a busy emergency room in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the show is set in real time as the doctors and nurses of the ER live out each hour of their shift. The series throws ER vet Noah Wyleback into the doctor's coat and it has been the talk of the town – including the cast all joining together to talk about the HBO Max series at a panel at Warner Bros. Studios in California, moderated by journalist Emily Longeretta. And one thing they addressed on the panel was a fear many shows have: What if Season 2 isn't as captivating as the first?

During the panel, series creator R. Scott Gemmill spoke about how there was a fear over Season 2 not living up to expectations. “You don't want the sophomore curse.” Gemmill shared that the first season was a unique experience...

Even if you haven't seen "The Pitt," chances are you've heard about what has been praised as one of the most accurate medical dramas ever made. Created by "ER" producer R. Scott Gemmill alongside former star Noah Wyle and producer John Wells, "The Pitt" season 1 depicted a full 12-hour shift in the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, with each episode representing an hour of that shift. The fact that the show doesn't use music at all and "The Pitt" cast are mostly younger, lesser-known actors also contributes to the realism. But the show wasn't envisioned simply as a way to depict emergency medicine in as realistic a way as possible.

During the press tour for the HBO Max series, Wyle has spoken widely about how there was a new story to tell when it came to medical professionals. Not only were emergency doctors already working under immense pressure, they had just endured the global pandemic,...

"The Pitt" is, for the most part, a pretty grounded (and medically accurate) show. The HBO Max original, which is not a spin-off of "ER" and began its run in January 2025, takes place "in real time," meaning that the first season's 15-episode run takes place over 15 hours of an emergency room shift led by Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch. During a recent panel, though (via Vulture), Wyle and his collaborator R. Scott Gemmill, who serves as showrunner, said they considered something sort of out-of-pocket for season 2.

Though Gemmill said that the show has "only begun to scratch the surface" of Dr. Robby and his colleagues, the real-time conceit means they don't have to employ dumb tropes like "evil twin" or "weather machine." Wyle, though, corrected his colleague, saying Gemmill did "pitch evil twin, technically." How?

"The idea was at the very end, one of the furries comes in and we're going...

The Pitt became a streaming sensation. It gave television watchers a no-holds-barred look at the life and tragedy of an emergency room, and captivated them with strong and relatable characters going through the worst day of their lives. So what's next?

The Pitt Season 2 is on the way, and series star Noah Wyle is feeling under pressure. He and series creator R. Scott Gemmill told People about the ins and outs of creating The Pitt Season 2. They were determined to avoid what Gemmill called the "sophomore curse."

Defeating the "sophomore curse" when the stakes are so high isn't an easy feat. Gemmill gave himself some time to muse on what made the first season so great. “We were unusual in our first season in the sense that we shot, we had been shooting before the show aired, so we were just having this little fun in our little bubble over on stage,...

The Pitt gave a shot of adrenaline to FYC season on Wednesday with a special set visit for Emmy voters, followed by a screening of the Season 1 finale and a panel with Noah Wyle (Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch and an executive producer), Shabana Azeez (Victoria Javadi), Fiona Dourif (Dr. Cassie McKay), Katherine Lanasa (Nurse Dana Evans), Tracy Ifeachor (Dr. Heather Collins), Isa Briones (Dr. Trinity Santos), Gerran Howell (Dennis Whitaker), R. Scott Gemmill, and John Wells (executive producer).

During the group Q&a, it was confirmed that Season 2 begins filming "next month" on the Warner Bros. lot. While the cast and producers couldn't speak much about the new episodes, Wyle did tease the plot with 12 words: "Fourth of July. 250th anniversary of America. Big holiday weekend. Busy shift." Hmm, let the fan theories commence!

Gemmill joked that, for Season 2, he pitched an "evil twin" reveal at a "furry convention" in Pittsburgh during Independence Day.

Amanda Marsalis is the first to admit she wasn't sure if she was right for The Pitt when the project came the director's way.

"I was told, 'Oh, it's a medical drama from John Wells.' I was like, 'Oh, really, Ok.' I didn't think of it as my thing. And I say that with humility," Marsalis tells Gold Derby. "It's not that I'm a snob. I just thought of it as a some type of thing that maybe wasn't my type of thing. And I was wrong. I read it and was like, 'Oh, this is good.'"

Part of that was the show's real-time format, with each episode depicting one hour of a 15-hour shift, dropping viewers deep into the thick of the ER as cases and stress escalate. Marsalis, who's helmed episodes of Ozark and most recently Ransom Canyon, directed four episodes of the first season of The Pitt,...

I recently started watching Tina Fey’s 30 Rock reunion enterprise The Four Seasons with the lowest of expectations.

The Netflix show has Fey bringing many of her writers from the Tgs days to revive an Alan Alda movie from her youth, with buddies like Will Forte and Steve Carell along for the ride. Reviews were middling, the comedy writer goes dramatic trope is, well, a trope, and the whole thing smacked of an NBA veteran load-managing so he could keep cashing that paycheck.

Yet as I continued watching the show, it became clear that my fears were misplaced. Yes, The Four Seasons is a nostalgia exercise — sometimes literally, as when Alda himself shows up as a character’s father. But the Netflix show has plenty to say about midlife — that peculiar zone when you’ve accomplished so much but don’t know where to direct the energy to do...

Tracy Ifeachor remembers the moment she knew The Pitt would be a hit — and it's not tied to any one episode or fan reaction.

"I want to say something really profound here, but instead I'll say I remember coming in one day and saying to Noah [Wyle], 'Now I know this show is going to be an absolute smash hit because I got my identity stolen three times in the course of a week and all these different things happened,'" Ifeachor tells Gold Derby. "Got stuck in customs. I went, 'There's a lot opposing me when that happened.' I was like, 'Yeah, yeah, this is going to be something.' ... So when, like, 50 bad things happen on a single day, you've got to know that something great is coming around the corner."

In all seriousness, Ifeachor knew the medical drama was a special project from the start between the...

Leading writers of the top shows on television — from “Hacks” to “Severance” to “The Pitt” — gathered to share insights into their craft, discuss challenges and reveal how they learned from their casts to drop their egos at TheWrap’s inaugural Showrunners and Creators of Emmy Season Breakfast, an invite-only event at The Maybourne Beverly Hills on Wednesday.

Held in conjunction with the company’s launch of its first annual Showrunners and Creators List celebrating 30 of today’s top TV creatives, the event’s centerpiece was a panel discussion with 18 showrunners in attendance as each reflected on early career missteps and successes, what’s next for their acclaimed, Emmys-contending work and what it’s like to attract some of the most in-demand Hollywood talent — from Colin Farrell on “The Penguin” to Sterling K. Brown on “Paradise” to Kathy Bates on “Matlock” — to bring their words to life.

Led by moderator Steve Pond,...

TV’s most in-demand entertainers came out Wednesday to celebrate TheWrap’s inaugural Showrunners and Creators of Emmy Season Breakfast — an exclusive, invite-only event held at The Maybourne Beverly Hills.

Held in conjunction with the company’s launch of its first annual Showrunners and Creators List celebrating 30 of today’s top TV creatives, the event’s centerpiece was a panel discussion with 18 showrunners in attendance discussing career highs and lows — and their latest, Emmys-contending successes — with TheWrap’s Executive Editor, Awards, Steve Pond.

In all, participating panelists included: Lucia Aniello, Jen Statsky and Paul W. Downs; Neil Druckmann; Dan Erickson; Dan Fogelman; R. Scott Gemmill; Yahlin Chang and Eric Tuchman; Jennie Snyder Urman; Eric Ledgin and Justin Spitzer; Lauren LeFranc; Meg Marinis; Paul William Davies; and Patrick Schumacker and Justin Halpern.

Other notable guests joining TheWrap staff and more industry players for the first-of-its-kind event were “Matlock” stars Kathy Bates,...

While HBO Max’s The Pitt readies itself for filming on Season 2, star Tracy Ifeachor teased what might be coming through the doors of the emergency department next, including what the breakout drama has in store for her character Dr. Collins, both romantically and professionally speaking.

“Listen, there is going to be an amazing cast in Season 2 — just as there was in Season 1. I’m just going to leave it there,” she told Us Weekly in a new interview. “I’m not a [plot] ruiner. I’m not even going to tell you who is or is not going to come back. I’m just going to say I want you to watch Season 2 and just enjoy it as much as you’ve watched Season 1. Hopefully there’ll be Seasons 3 and 4 and 7.”

As creator and executive producer R. Scott Gemmill teased previously, there will be some changes heading into the sophomore installment,...

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...

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It probably shouldn't come as a huge surprise that "The Pitt," a Max original that started its run on HBO and Discovery's proprietary streamer in January 2025 (prior to it being re-named HBO Max), turned out to be one of 2025's biggest hits. Structured like "24" — in that each episode encompasses a "real-time" hour and the 15 episodes in season 1 comprise a 15-hour shift in an overcrowded and chaotic Pittsburgh emergency room — and helmed by three major veterans of "ER," "The Pitt" has been hailed as both an excellent drama and a stunningly accurate medical series. Thankfully, season 2 is already confirmed as well.

With that said, what do we actually know so far about the sophomore season of "The Pitt" (which will be led once again by Noah Wyle's seasoned and experienced trauma attending Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch)? Quite a lot,...

A week after moving into first place in the Gold Derby odds for Best Actor in a Drama Series, Noah Wyle could be in play for several Emmys for The Pitt.

HBO Max has submitted Wyle, who plays Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, in multiple categories for acting, writing, and executive-producing the acclaimed series, Gold Derby has confirmed.

Series creator, executive producer, and showrunner R. Scott Gemmill joins Wyle in the Writing for a Drama Series category. John Wells and Amanda Marsalis are submitted for Directing in a Drama Series.

All series regulars, portraying members of the hospital’s medical staff have been submitted for Outstanding Supporting Actor/Actress in a Drama Series:

Shabana Azeez as Victoria Javadi

Patrick Ball as Dr. Frank Langdon

Isa Briones as Dr. Trinity Santos

Taylor Dearden as Dr. Melissa “Mel” King

Fiona Dourif as Dr. Cassie McKay

Supriya Ganesh as Dr. Samira Mohan

Gerran Howell...

Exclusive: One of the top contenders on the 2025 Emmy drama race, HBO Max’s breakout medical drama The Pitt, has firmed up its submissions.

In his role as star, writer and executive producer, Noah Wyle will contend in all three areas. He is up for Lead Actor In a Drama Series for his portrayal of Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, the dedicated senior attending physician at the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital.

Wyle and series creator, executive producer and showrunner R. Scott Gemmill are The Pitt‘s two submissions in the Writing for a Drama Series category, while executive producer John Wells and Amanda Marsalis are up for Directing In a Drama Series.

Gemmill, Wyle and Wells are all part of the series’ producing team behind The Pitt‘s Outstanding Drama Series submission.

All of Wyle’s series regular co-stars, playing members of the hospital’s medical staff — largely residents — are up...

HBO's The Pitt will be coming to more platforms, giving fans additional ways to watch the hit medical drama. Earlier this year, The Pitt offered audiences a new take on the doctor TV show format, providing an unflinching real-time look at an emergency room staff (led by Noah Wyle's Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch) from the mind of ER creative R. Scott Gemmill. 

Warner Bros. (WB) announced plans to expand The Pitt's streaming exclusive release, bringing The Pitt to linear TV this fall. The new HBO series will jump to traditional cable for the first time, marking the latest streaming hit to undergo such a move in this modern streaming era. 

WB revealed the news as a part of its 2025 upfront (via Variety), disclosing that the hit medical drama will make its TV debut later this year on TNT. 

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Warner Bros. Discovery is making The Pitt available to the masses (or at least those who don’t want to pay for an extra subscription): Season one of the HBO Max drama is coming to TNT.

Warner Bros. Television Group CEO Channing Dungey made the announcement Wednesday at the Wbd upfront. The first season will drop on the net ahead of its season two premiere on HBO Max.

The Pitt star Noah Wyle appeared at the presentation Wednesday to introduce Dungey and to talk about the origins of his new drama from John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill.

“When we set out, our goal with The Pitt was to make a show that was not just about medical cases, but about the people behind them, the dedicated folks who sacrificed daily in service of others inside of a fraying system that currently feels like it’s teetering on the edge,...