Noah Wyle is returning to the emergency room for his new medical drama The Pitt, which really got here collectively after an ER reboot by no means got here collectively (sparking a lawsuit within the course of). The actor, who starred as Dr. John Carter on the primary 11 seasons of ER, and appeared briefly in Seasons 12 and 15, is now placing the lab coat again on for a unique type of medical drama, and his new character isn’t any Carter.
Streaming with a Max subscription starting January 9, The Pitt will slice into the 2025 TV schedule with 15 episodes, the place every performs out in actual time over the course of a 15-hour shift at an emergency room in Pittsburgh. Wyle’s Dr. Michael Robinavitch heads up a brand new group of residents and medical college students on their first day. Regardless of the present additionally coming from ER producers John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill, Wyle informed TV Insider that the similarities are simply floor, and that Dr. Robinavitch is fairly totally different from Dr. Carter partly due to his heritage. As he put it:
He’s so totally different by design. As soon as we pivoted away from the concept of getting [the series] be tied to that [ER] IP, we wished to see how totally different we may make it. That started with John saying, ‘Noah, the place’s your loved ones from?’ They’re Russian-Jewish. And he stated, ‘Properly, what’s a reputation? What can we play with there? Would you need to play in that blood reminiscence?’ I used to be all in favour of enjoying a man who got here from a far more blue-collar background and who hadn’t had any of these early alternatives, who got here to medication for fully totally different causes.
Followers of ER know that Carter had it pretty simple, at the very least when it got here to his background, since he got here from a wealthy household. He didn’t have the very best relationship with a few of his relations resulting from his choice to enter medication and stray from the household enterprise. He actually wished to do one thing along with his life, and viewers are properly conscious of the constructive impression he had on loads of sufferers.
But it surely feels like for Robinavitch has much more to show, and will probably be thrilling to search out out what his personal background is. References an fascinating storyline tying into the pandemic, Wyle continued:
This can be a man who most likely shouldn’t be doing this anymore however was pressed again into service throughout Covid and has stayed shouldering the burdens of the job with out actually doing any of the therapeutic or analytic work essential to optimize his psychological well being. He’s not fairly as much as the duty, and right now, you’re catching him on a very unhealthy day. The masks he’s been carrying of competence and confidence begins to erode. We see the toll that training medication by way of Covid and afterwards has taken on a few of these healthcare staff.
This can be an intriguing approach to be taught extra about Robinavitch and even see one other method {that a} medical drama handles COVID. It feels like there can be quite a bit to look ahead to and quite a bit to find out about Noah Wyle’s new character and all the characters. Though Robinavitch isn’t Carter, there’ll probably be a reference or two to ER. Regardless, although, will probably be thrilling to see what occurs. Even simply seeing Wyle again in an emergency room is giving me feels.
After a primary take a look at Wyle again in scrubs dropped in August, followers couldn’t cease speaking about ER. The NBC medical drama ran for 15 seasons and got here to an finish in 2009. Folks couldn’t assist however to share their ideas on The Pitt’s first look and plenty of had been glad that Dr. Carter was again. Even when he wasn’t precisely Dr. Carter.
Folks will be capable to see for themselves how Noah Wyle does within the emergency room once more when The Pitt drops this Thursday. Within the meantime, these eager to see Dr. Carter once more can accomplish that with a Hulu subscription or on Max as properly with all 15 seasons of ER.