ABC has been making bulletins concerning the remainder of the 2025 TV schedule and past, renewing many exhibits, together with Shifting Gears. So it’s just a little regarding for Physician Odyssey followers that whereas extra 9-1-1 and Gray’s Anatomy are coming, the destiny of ABC’s third primetime Thursday collection stays up within the air. One govt has spoken out in regards to the community’s latest strikes (or lack thereof, on this case), and his feedback about Joshua Jackson’s bonkers medical collection give me hope.
Ryan Murphy is understood for his over-the-top, often-illogical plots, and I’ve grown considerably keen on Physician Odyssey, the campy high-seas drama that places its characters into conditions which are in some way each life-threatening and wildly unserious (take the nepo-baby-heavy “Spring Break” episode visitor starring Ava Phillippe and Paris Jackson, for example). Murphy has a number of coals within the fireplace at ABC and Hulu today, and community exec Craig Erwich gave some perception into what’s occurring behind the scenes, telling Selection:
We love Physician Odyssey. We’re nonetheless having artistic conversations in regards to the present with Ryan and evaluating. Ryan may be very busy. He’s engaged on a ton with us proper now: 9-1-1, which continues to be one of many No. 1 exhibits on tv. We simply gave an expanded order to 9-1-1: Nashville. We have now Chris O’Donnell in that. I believe it’s a very distinctive setting for our flagship franchise. We simply launched Mid-Century Fashionable. So, as he needs to be, he’s fairly busy doing glorious work for us.
Whereas it looks as if ABC’s precedence in the case of Ryan Murphy creations lies with the 9-1-1 franchise — together with the introduction of Chris O’Donnell’s 9-1-1: Nashville — the community is dedicated to the TV producer, and it seems like they worth his artistic enter. Craig Erwich continued:
Finally, we’re going to take our lead from Ryan about what that subsequent chapter of Physician Odyssey appears to be like like. However we’re having artistic conversations about it proper now. He’s an incredible associate.
That’s stunning to me as a result of I might have thought any questions concerning Physician Odyssey Season 2 would come all the way down to scores and/or cash, particularly given the truth that Gray’s Anatomy confronted funds cuts in its present twentieth season, and viewers could also be selecting between ABC’s two medical dramas on Thursday nights. Nonetheless, Craig Erwich makes it sound just like the ball is in Ryan Murphy’s court docket to resolve if and how one can proceed.
Because the ABC boss mentioned, Ryan Murphy is juggling fairly a number of initiatives, together with his ongoing collection with ABC and Hulu, the brand new 9-1-1 spinoff, Kim Kardashian’s authorized drama All’s Truthful (which will likely be accessible to stream with a Hulu subscription), and an upcoming FX physique horror referred to as The Magnificence. I’m unsure if all of that is contributing to the shortage of stories concerning Physician Odyssey, however I discover hope in the truth that Murphy appears to be concerned in and probably main the dialog about what comes subsequent.
For now, we are able to not less than get pleasure from what we have now left, with new episodes of Physician Odyssey airing at 9 p.m. ET on Thursdays on ABC and streaming the subsequent day on Hulu.