Noah Wyle has starred in some nice roles over time, together with A Few Good Males and Donnie Darko, however he’ll at all times be greatest identified for enjoying Dr. John Carter within the vastly well-liked medical drama, ER, from 1994-2009. Now he’s taking on the lead position in one other medical procedural at Max titled The Pitt.
Wyle will star and govt produce the 15-episode first season of the present, which is described as “a practical examination of the challenges dealing with healthcare employees in at the moment’s America as seen by way of the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh,” per the official logline.
R. Scott Gemmill will function showrunner on the collection, with John Wells govt producing. The collection reunites Wyle, Gemmill, and Wells, as all three beforehand labored collectively on ER. Wells was the present’s preliminary showrunner and govt producer, whereas Gemmill joined the present in its sixth season and labored his means as much as being an govt producer. Gemmill was most just lately the showrunner on the CBS drama NCIS: Los Angeles.
“We’re grateful to Warner Bros. Tv and Max for giving us this chance to return to the world of city drugs,” Wyle, Wells, and Gemmill mentioned in a joint assertion. “The myriad of challenges dealing with the docs, nurses, technicians, sufferers, and their households who work within the trenches of recent drugs have change into solely extra pronounced within the decade and a half since we final visited their tales. We’re thrilled to have the ability to return to this world with the assist of our companions and are trying ahead to pushing the boundaries of dramatic realism and medical accuracy in following the lives of those heroic women and men.”
Gemmill penned the primary episode of the collection and serves as govt producer and showrunner. Wells govt produces together with Erin Jontow through John Wells Productions. Along with Wyle, different govt producers embody Simran Baidwan and Michael Hissrich. Warner Bros Tv, the place John Wells Productions is below an total deal, will function the studio.
