Max’s The Pitt will return for a season 2 — with a special twist.
During an appearance at Deadline’s “Contenders TV” panel on Saturday, April 5, executive producer R. Scott Gemmill revealed that season 2 of the hit Max series will all take place over the Fourth of July weekend.
The Pitt is Max’s latest medical drama set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, starring Noah Wyle, Patrick Ball, Taylor Dearden, Katherine LaNasa, Isa Briones and more. It’s been lauded for its realistic portrayal of doctors, nurses and staff working in the intense environment that is a hospital emergency room. The second season, according to Gemmill, will pick up 10 months after the season 1 finale.
“We’re calling all pros,” Wyle, 53, added on Saturday. “We want people who are good with props and who are used to working in a company, with an ensemble. We want creativity. We want passion. We don’t want ego coming to play. We have tremendous people showing up excited.”
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Wyle further gushed about working alongside background actors on The Pitt.
“There’s no differentiation between the foreground and the background crew,” Wyle said. “We are all the company, and we are all going to have a very immersive experience. It’s a very atypical way of working, and hopefully, they’ll come away with something very special.”
The main actors also put in their best efforts to play doctors.
“The 10 of us doctors all got medical boot camp for two weeks before we started filming, which was so helpful,” Briones, 26, exclusively told Us Weekly in February of portraying Dr. Trinity Santos. “On set, we always have [technical advisor] Dr. Joe Sachs — he’s there all the time.”
According to Briones, the cast works with a “roster” of real-life physicians to ensure each story line is handled accurately.
“So a different doctor is assigned to every episode and they handle choreographing all of the big trauma scenes — anything that involves medical choreography,” Briones explained to Us. “But the boot camp was so helpful because it’s not like they can teach us how to be a doctor in two weeks, obviously. But it gave us the tools and gave us the language of the right questions to ask when we are actually choreographing something like that.”
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The end of The Pitt season 1 also saw the shocking return of Dr. Frank Langdon (Ball), who was told to leave mid-shift after it was revealed that he was stealing opioids from patients for personal use.
“I think this is the moment to save lives,” Ball exclusively told Us in March of Langdon coming back to help in the wake of a mass shooting at a music festival. “I think when [s***] hits the fan, he is needed. There are lives that need to be saved and that’s what he’s going to do.”
Ball added, “There’s a lot — and this is more broadly the case — going on with him personally. There’s a lot of questions about whether he’s going to have a job, whether he’s going to have a career, whether he’s going to have to go home to his wife and kids and tell him that he was fired and that he’s a drug addict.”
The Pitt is streaming on Max.
