That Noah Wyle, Dr. Carter from ER, works on television is not particularly relevant news. This last decade we have seen him in Falling Skies, The Librarians, The Red Line or Leverage: Redemption. He is a constant in the middle. But it is with his next project: he will reunite with two ER veterans John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill to star in and produce a new medical series.
The project, which is titled The Pitt, is produced by John Wells Productions, the production company of which he was showrunner of ER since the first season, which marked a before and after in general fiction. Of course, this time the one who will take the creative reins will be Gemmill, who was a scriptwriter for the medical series starting in the sixth season.
“The myriad challenges facing doctors, nurses, technicians, patients and the families of those working in the trenches of modern medicine have become more pronounced in the last decade and a half, since we last visited their stories,” Gemmill, Wyle and Wells explained in a joint statement, reproduced by media such as Deadline.
They say they are “delighted to be returning to this world” and hope to “push the boundaries of dramatic realism and medical precision by following the lives of these heroic men and women.” In free-to-air television marked by the romantic entanglements and impossible cases of Grey’s Anatomy or the exceptional idealism of The Good Doctor, they want to return the genre to the roots of ER.
At the moment, they already have The Pitt sold. Max, Warner Bros Discovery’s content platform that was previously called HBO Max in the US, has ordered a first season of 15 episodes. “Their passion, creativity and dedication to the stories elevate every aspect of the project, and together, we are prepared to offer a stimulating and authentic portrait of today’s medical world,” they said.
As it was said, everything comes back and streaming, instead of looking for more original or adult stories, is increasingly betting on the classic.
