Noah Wyle is back in the emergency room in The Pitt trailer.
The Emmy-winning actor starred in ER for 15 years and reunited with John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill, with whom he worked on the long-running NBC medical drama for Max‘s series. Each of the season’s episodes will focus on one hour of Dr. Robby’s (Wyle) 15-hour shift as the chief attendant in Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital’s emergency room.
The series “is a realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh,” per the logline.
The Pitt trailer begins with a doctor standing at the edge of a building, looking down, as Dr. Robby approaches and tells him if he jumps while he’s working that’s just rude.
“Hey, D, what’s the good word?” Wyle says to another hospital worker, who replies, “We’re fucked. 52 in the waiting room, and it’s not even 7 [a.m.].”
As the look at the drama series continues, doctors say to cut Robby some slack today because it’s the fifth year anniversary of another doctor who died during COVID-19.
“Are you OK?” Tracy Ifeachor’s Dr. Collins asks Wyle’s Robby at one point in the trailer. “Why wouldn’t I be?” he asks her. “Five years ago today. You can’t block your feelings forever,” she tells him. “Oh, you’d be surprised,” he quips back.
The trailer also introduces a set of medical school students, as they begin their first day in the emergency room and begin to understand how hectic and emotional the pit can be. When a patient codes, Patrick Ball’s Dr. Langdon asks Gerran Howell’s Whitaker if he’s ready to call it, and he refuses.
Supriya Ganesh (Dr. Mohan), Fiona Dourif (Dr. McKay), Taylor Dearden (Dr. King), Isa Briones (Dr. Santos), Shabana Azeez (Javadi) and Katherine LaNasa (Dana Evans) round out the cast of the new medical drama.
In addition to starring in the series, Wyle serves as an executive producer alongside Wells and showrunner Gemmill.
The first two episodes of The Pitt debut on Max on Jan. 9, with new episodes hitting the streamer every Thursday until the finale on April 10.
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