Is <em>The Pitt</em> Coming Back for Season 2?

While Noah Wyle calls on Congress to help health-care workers in the real world, HBO Max plans to send Dr. Robby and the Pitt crew some extra hands for season 2. According to Deadline, four new cast members will join the medical drama for another grueling 15-hour shift in season 2. Plus, it seems that all your favorites from the first season are returning as well—even Langdon!

If you missed out on the thrilling series this year, The Pitt follows the medical staff of the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center through one shift in the emergency department. The season ran for 15 episodes, with each episode covering an hour of the shift. ER legend Noah Wyle leads the cast, as well as emerging talents Patrick Ball, Tracy Ifeachor, and Gerran Howell. The series—created by R. Scott Gemmill of ER and NCIS: Los Angeles—has received praise from the medical community for its accurate depiction of emergency work following the Covid-19 pandemic.

“We can all identify with having had situations occur during the pandemic that were so extreme that we put them in a little bit of a locked room,” Wyle told Esquire’s Brady Langmann at a SAG-AFTRA Foundation panel in support of The Pitt. “[We did that] out of necessity and to move on—and to show up for our kids or parents or bosses. And yet, every once in a while, you behave strangely. You react oddly. You don’t recognize yourself. That, to me, is The Pitt.”

For everything we know about where The Pitt will head next, read on below.

The Pitt will return for season 2.

According to Gemmill, season 2 takes place over Fourth of July weekend. He told Deadline that the series will continue to follow the same format of one 15-hour shift and that the story will pick up ten months after the season 1 finale. As anyone in health care knows, holidays are an especially chaotic time at the ER—especially when fireworks are involved.

As for the four new cast members? Well, Deadline reports that Irene Choi (The Good Doctor) will join as Joy, “a third-year medical student with strong boundaries and a vast knowledge of medicine that leans toward the macabre.”

Choi arrives with newcomers Laëtitia Hollard as a recent nursing graduate named Emma; Lucas Iverson as James, a fourth-year medical student; and Charles Baker (Breaking Bad), as an unhoused and “neglected” new patient.

Season 2 will premiere in January 2026, according to HBO Max CEO Casey Bloys. That’s less than a year after the end of season 1 this April. “What I love about something like The Pitt is I can get 15 episodes in a year,” Bloys told Vulture in March.

Plus, production is already under way. In our interview with Wyle, the actor revealed that he’s already attending meetings for season 2.

“What excited me is the identification has been so one-to-one with these characters from people in health care and audiences watching it that it’s now like, Okay, they identify,” Wyle told Esquire in April. “We just have to make sure that wherever we take them, it’s grounded, believable, and in keeping with their characters. We don’t need to be too sensational. We don’t need to go out there and try to find a shark to jump. We just need to figure out how to stay true to our format.”