Noah Wyle is back in January with the medical series The Pitt where he plays a role similar to that of Dr. John Carter in EMERGENCIES. But the actor affirms that this new fiction has opened up impossible perspectives for him in EMERGENCIES.
And no, you thought so, but the medical series genre is not dead yet! While series installed for a long time, like Grey’s Anatomyare losing momentum, the streaming platform Max arrives in January with a strong series, which truly breathes new life into this genre, although it has been exhausted. Noah Wyle, unforgettable Dr. Carter from the series EMERGENCIEScollaborates again with John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill, former producers of the series, to create The Pitt. He portrays Dr. Michael Robinavitch, head of the emergency department of a Pittsburgh hospital. Far from the romances of Grey’s Anatomy, this real-time series, since each of the 15 episodes represents an hour of the same day on call, aims to be ultra-realistic in form and content.
The Pitt : by changing broadcaster, the series frees itself fromEMERGENCIES
After playing the role of Dr. Carter for 12 seasons ofEMERGENCIESNoah Wyle can’t seem to get enough of medical fiction. As he confides in an interview with TV Line, he thought about coming back during the Covid crisis when many caregivers contacted him to send him their testimonies. If, for a time, there was talk of reviving EMERGENCIES through a reboot, the team finally found the idea too restrictive to tell what the modern American hospital is experiencing. But above all, unlike EMERGENCIESthe series is broadcast on a streaming platform and not on a channel. Which changes everything according to Noah Wyle: “It was R. Scott Gemmill who came up with the real-time storytelling framework, and John [Wells]Max and Warner Bros jumped straight on board to use this new streaming platform. The idea was to see whether or not we could tell the story in a more visually arresting way than we had done in the 1990s – in a more photorealistic way than we ever could. , and in a more organic way.”
What was impossible in EMERGENCIES is no longer in The Pittaccording to Noah Wyle
“Because you are no longer subject to the rules, practices and language barriers that television broadcasting imposes on us. You can really paint with all the colors in the palette. The question is not what we can show, but what we must show, with discretion and taste. It was really rewarding.” he explains. Indeed, American television imposes very consistent specifications of what fiction can show, particularly in terms of blood or sexuality, as well as insults or bad words. The Pitt turns out to be, in fact, a very raw series visually and in terms of what we see of medical operations.
