Television and Max for giving us this opportunity to return to the world of urban medicine," Gemmill, Wyle and John Wells said in a joint statemen

Experience a 15-hour hospital shift in real-time with Max’s new emergency room series. Health care workers have been through hell and back over the last five years, and one new show is looking to give you an inside look at the daily grind they go through to save people’s lives.

Max's new hospital drama The Pitt aims to bring some gritty realism to medical procedurals. Noah Wyle leads the series as Dr. Michael "Robby" Rabinovitch. The show was created by ER writer R. Scott Gemmill and executive produced by ER showrunner John Wells.

Noah Wyle discusses portraying Dr. Michael Robinavitch in The Pitt, comparing it to his earlier breakout role as John Carter in ER.

The Pitt,” on HBO’s streaming platform Max, is a weekly medical drama that emulates the kind of shows that have long been — and remain — a staple on network TV. It’s an instructive blueprint for other streamers to follow suit.

The second episode of The Pitt — the new Max medical drama starring Noah Wyle as the chief attending doctor in an overwhelmed emergency room in Pittsburgh — ends with the grimmest four minutes I've seen on TV in a while.

Thirty years after ER “set the tone” for all medical dramas that followed, series star Noah Wyle has re-teamed with executive producers John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill on The Pitt, which ups the adrenaline with its real-time format.