‘The Pitt’: Noah Wyle and EPs on Crafting a Medical Drama That’s ‘Completely Different’ From ‘ER’ and How Its Real-Time Format Works

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Max Gao SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “10:00 AM,” the fourth episode of the first season of Max’s “The Pitt.” For Noah Wyle, everything old is new again.

More than 30 years after rising to global fame as John Carter, a wide-eyed, fresh-faced intern, on the NBC smash-hit medical drama “ER,” Wyle has returned to the same genre as an overworked senior attending physician in a beleaguered emergency room in Max’s “The Pitt.” But rather than reprising his beloved role as Carter, and rebooting or reviving the Chicago-set “ER” — a fact that has been legally disputed by the estate of series co-creator Michael Crichton — Wyle has reteamed with heavyweight “ER” producers John Wells and R.

Scott Gemmill to develop a fresh take on a well-trodden genre for the HBO streamer. “The Pitt,” which debuted earlier this month and drops on Thursdays, plays out over the course of a single shift inside the emergency department at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Centre — with each of the 15 episodes representing a single hour on the job.

Wyle plays Dr. Michael “Robby” Rabinavitch, who chooses to go to work against his better judgment on the anniversary of the death of his mentor, Dr.