Max renews The Pitt for a second season

Max is digging deeper into The Pitt, with the Noah Wyle medical drama now officially coming back for a season 2.

By William Hughes | February 14, 2025 | 4:43pm

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Max is digging deeper into The Pitt, with Warner Bros. Discovery announcing today that it’s renewing the Noah Wyle medical drama for a second season. Created by Wyle’s old ER collaborator R. Scott Gemmill (and produced under the banner of that show’s long-time mastermind, John Wells), the series applies a 24-esque framing structure to the medical procedural format, with each episode focused on one hour of a 15-hour emergency room shift in a very busy Pittsburgh hospital.

The realities of streaming keep us from knowing how well the series is doing, ratings-wise, but The Pitt has made a strong impression on critics: Our own Laura Bogart has written about the ways the show adopts the familiar beats of the medical procedural to a more robust and realistic pace, while praising Wyle for giving a lived-in performance as the veteran doctor around whom the chaos revolves. Max, certainly, sounds happy enough: An exec for the streaming service gave a statement today praising the show and its various creatives, saying, “It’s been a thrill to watch audiences embrace The Pitt as an update to procedural storytelling with a cast who authentically embody the heroics of doctors and nurses on shift in a 2025 emergency room.” (Translated: A lot of people are watching this, and the reviews are decent-to-good.) It probably doesn’t hurt that the series has a built-in hook for a second season already ready to go: Just pick another arduous day in the ER, set the clock to ticking, and let the hourly episodes roll.