Noah Wyle goes again to his roots, with the actor set to star in a medical procedural collection that has been ordered at Max.
Selection has discovered that Max has given a 15-episode order to the collection, presently titled “The Pitt.” Wyle will star and government produce the present, which is described as “a practical examination of the challenges going through healthcare staff in at this time’s America as seen by means 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 government producing. The collection reunites Wyle, Gemmill, and Wells, as all three beforehand labored collectively on the hit NBC medical drama “ER.” Wyle starred within the collection as Dr. John all through nearly all of the present’s run. Wells was the present’s preliminary showrunner and government producer, whereas Gemmill joined the present in its sixth season and labored his means as much as being an government 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 stated in a joint assertion. “The myriad of challenges going through the medical doctors, 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 wanting 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 government producer and showrunner. Wells government produces together with Erin Jontow through John Wells Productions. Along with Wyle, different government producers embody Simran Baidwan and Michael Hissrich. Warner Bros Tv, the place John Wells Productions is underneath an general deal, will function the studio.
“Collaborating with the visionary skills of John Wells, R. Scott Gemmill, and Noah Wyle to develop this new collection has already been an exhilarating course of,” stated Sarah Aubrey, head of Max Authentic Programming. “Their ardour, creativity, and dedication to storytelling elevate each side of the undertaking, and collectively, we’re poised to ship a compelling and genuine portrayal of at this time’s medical world that may captivate audiences and go away an enduring impression.”
“ER” aired for 15 seasons on NBC and was some of the well-liked present’s on tv throughout its run. It gained almost two dozen Emmys in that point with over 100 nominations. Wyle obtained 5 consecutive Emmy nominations for the present from 1995-1999 for greatest supporting actor in a drama in addition to three Golden Globe nominations.
“It’s no secret Scott, Noah, and John know learn how to make nice tv,” stated Channing Dungey, Warner Bros. Tv Group Chairman and CEO. “Once they got here to us with the thought of reinvigorating the medical TV style with a contemporary, life like take a look at at this time’s trendy hospitals, we knew we needed to leap on it. Their all-star collaboration, together with their impeccable storytelling and unwavering ardour they create to each undertaking, is the right prescription for this present to change into the following nice medical drama. We’re grateful to our companions at Max, and we will’t await audiences to see this present.”
Along with his time on “ER,” Wyle is thought for main “The Librarian” franchise that features three made-for-TV motion pictures in addition to the TV collection of the identical identify. He additionally starred within the post-apocalyptic alien invasion drama “Falling Skies” at TNT and presently stars in “Leverage: Redemption” for Amazon Prime Video. In movie, Wyle has been in options akin to “A Few Good Males,” “Donnie Darko,” and “White Oleander.”
He’s repped by Verve, Brillstein, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
This marks the newest medical procedural to get picked up at a streamer. Netflix just lately introduced a collection order for “Pulse,” which is about in a Miami hospital. Procedurals ranked among the many high primetime telecasts of 2023 and are constantly among the many most-watched reveals on streaming within the Nielsen rankings. Procedurals are additionally usually cheaper to supply than extra serialized, status dramas at a time when all networks and streamers need to lower prices. As well as, they’ll maintain extremely lengthy runs, with “Regulation & Order: SVU” presently in its twenty fifth season at NBC and “Gray’s Anatomy” coming into its twentieth season at ABC.