EXCLUSIVE: NBC’s medical drama New Amsterdam will wrap its run next season. The series, currently in its fourth season, already has been renewed for the 2022-23 season as part of a three-year pickup.
New Amsterdam‘s fifth and final season will be its shortest, consisting of 13 episodes. That will bring the show’s total to 92 episodes.New Amsterdam, from creator/executive producer David Schulner, director/executive producer Peter Horton and Universal Television, stars Ryan Eggold as Dr.
Max Goodwin who became the medical director of New Amsterdam, one the country’s oldest public hospitals, with the goal of reforming it by tearing up its bureaucracy to provide better care to patients.“The story of Max Goodwin, and his never-ending commitment to patients at New Amsterdam, has been inspiring,” said Lisa Katz, President, Scripted Programming, NBCUniversal Television & Streaming. “We’re so grateful to David Schulner, Peter Horton, and our cast and crew for their incredible dedication, talent and collaboration.”Through its first four seasons, New Amsterdam has aired in the same time slot, Tuesday 10 PM.
The medical drama came out of NBC’s first development cycle following the breakout success of This Is Us and contains a similar emotional storytelling DNA, which landed it the plum time period behind the flagship family drama.“When I first read the pilot script for New Amsterdam, I knew we had a winner.
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