HBO Guarantees The Pitt a Season 3
The Pitt is succeeding, and the pendulum hasn’t swung the other way. HBO renewed its favorite Emmy-winning drama for a third season late at night on January 7 — the day before the show’s second season debuts on HBO Max at 9 p.m. ET. HBO CEO Casey Bloys announced its renewal during the season-two premiere event in Los Angeles. “What I love about something like The Pitt is I can get 15 episodes in a year,” Bloys told Vulture during the first season’s run. “That’s a really great addition to what we’re already doing on the platform. And I’d like to do more shows in this model.”
This is just one more success for The Pitt in a long line of wins. The show was an immediate critical darling when it premiered this time last year, became a ratings juggernaut for HBO with 10 million average viewers per episode, and then won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series. Season two will again take place over one 15-hour-long stint in the ER, this time focusing on Pittsburgh’s Fourth of July celebration.
Produced by former ER writers John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill and starring ER’s Noah Wyle, the show’s almost-loss is in the ongoing lawsuit against it filed by Sherri Crichton, the wife of ER creator Michael Crichton, claiming the show is an unauthorized ER reboot. On its end, Warner Bros., which produces the show, has said that “the lawsuit filed by the Crichton Estate is baseless.”
“The only thing that I can legally speak to is how I feel emotionally, which is just profoundly sad and disappointed,” Wyle said in response to the lawsuit. “This taints the legacy [of ER], and it shouldn’t have.” Now, The Pitt has at least two more seasons’ worth of its own legacy to build.
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