Pitt Teaser: Noah Wyle Stars in Max’s First Procedural Film

Medical equipment hums… gurneys rush back and forth… blood and guts are everywhere… helicopters carrying emergency patients land on the roof. There’s something comfortingly familiar about Max’s voice. Pitt a teaser that deliberately positions itself in the pantheon of favorites medical shows. A new generation of trainees learning the ropes will remind you of Gray’s Anatomy. Talent (star Noah Wyle and creator John Wells) will remind you of ambulance. But Pitt has its own unique twist on the genre: the series consists of 15 episodes, 15 hours long, all covering one shift in a hospital emergency room.

Unlike some other medical dramas you could name, PittThe book’s brief description bills itself as “a realistic exploration of the challenges facing healthcare workers in America today through the lens of heroes on the front lines working in a state-of-the-art hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.” (Yeah, Pitt here denotes both the abbreviation for “ambulance” and the city in which that “ambulance” can be found.) This realism extends to the background of our documents. According to profile for TV InsiderWyle’s Dr. Michael “Robbie” Robinovich “still suffers from severe post-COVID PTSD, he just won’t admit it.” And his colleague Dr. Collins (Tracey Ifeachor) “moved from finance to medicine after the 2008 recession.”

Pitt the teaser is the ticking clock of this fateful shift in the emergency room, as if we need a reminder of the very high stakes. “Being here means that no matter how good you are or how hard you try, someone could die,” Robbie reminds one of his residents. “It’s called being an emergency physician.”

The 15-episode series is notable not only for being the streaming service’s first foray into procedural territory, but also for having more episodes in its first season than some of Max’s shows have ever had. (Can we all unite and pray that this show is a success, if only to put an end to the anemic eight-episode season?) Besides Wyle and Ifichor, Pitt also stars Patrick Marron Ball, Supriya Ganesh, Fiona Dourif, Taylor Dearden, Isa Briones, Jerran Howell, Shabana Aziz and Catherine Lanasa. The show is scheduled to premiere in January.