I’m so excited for our favorite nice (but haunted) Jewish doctor to be back on TV. Yes, of course I’m talking about Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch! He is played by Noah Wyle, who is currently nominated for an Emmy for his role in the groundbreaking medical drama “The Pitt.”
“The Pitt” was renewed for season two before the show’s first season even finished airing, and is one of the most nominated shows in this year’s Emmy awards (someone please give Noah Wyle an Emmy!!) for all the right reasons. The show, from “ER” makers Scott R. Gemmill and John Wells, is groundbreaking, not just because its cast is so diverse, but because of its depiction of the reality in emergency rooms. Season one portrayed one fictional shift in a Pittsburgh hospital, with each episode covering an hour of that shift; it is unparalleled in its realism and poignancy.
Here’s everything we know about season two of the show.
When is season 2 of “The Pitt” coming?
Let’s answer the biggest question on all our minds first: “The Pitt” is coming back on Jan. 8, 2026, exactly one year after the first season premiered, according to producer Wells. “With all due respect to all of my friends who make TV, there is no reason these shows can’t be on every year,” Wells said in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Them’s fighting words, but also, is he wrong??
When does season 2 take place?
Season 2 will take place 10 months after season one, on the Fourth of July, a very busy date for emergency rooms across the country — firework injuries have been on the rise in recent years. But the timing isn’t just because of the holiday. “The beginning of the residency year usually starts on July 1, so everybody will have moved up and there’ll be new people coming in,” Wells explained to The Hollywood Reporter in the same recent interview.
What is going to happen to Dr. Robby?
Wyle, who also writes for the show, opened up to TV Insider about what will happen to Robby after his breakdown in the final episodes of season one.
“This is a guy that can no longer look at himself in the mirror and admit that he doesn’t have a problem, but doctors don’t always make the best patients and how he goes about trying to get himself healthy, it’s a big part of what we’re trying to grapple with this season,” Wyle revealed.
“It’s a process that, in success, hopefully will run several years and we can peel this onion very slowly, which would be very gratifying to watch, I think. But part of that is being realistic with where he would be 10 months later. He’d probably tried a therapist or two. He probably shot them down, intellectually sparred with them, tried to find fault with their methodology, has come up with his own plan that he thinks will work just fine to keep everybody at bay, demonstrated from the leadership standpoint that he’s going through the motions of using the resources available so that he can model that for the people under him and make sure that they do. But all of it is, what is he really letting in? What is really taking root?”
Alright, I love a nice Jewish doctor going to therapy, but also love the realism of that process taking years, and the promise of future (yearly!) seasons that lies in Wyle’s answer. Yes, please and thank you.
Are all the old stars staying? Are there any new roles announced?
So far, all but Tracy Ifeachor, who played Dr. Collins, are slated to make a return. That includes Katherine LaNasa, Taylor Dearden, Patrick Ball, Isa Briones, Fiona Dourif, Supriya Ganesh, Shabana Azeez, Gerran Howell, Shawn Hatosy and Jewish actor Alexandra Metz who plays Dr. Yolanda Garcia.
And, as Deadline reports, season 2 will also have a lot of exciting new stars. Lawrence Robinson (“Three Ways”) will take on the recurring role of Brian Hancock, a sweet, charming and kind-hearted patient who turns a soccer injury into a possible meet-cute with one of the doctors.
Laëtitia Hollard (“Trauma,” “Or Monsters All”) will play Emma, “a recent nursing school graduate, who some may consider naive.”
Lucas Iverson (Shakespeare Theatre Co.’s “Frankenstein”) will play James, a fourth-year medical student.
Charles Baker (“Breaking Bad,” “The Blacklist”) will play “Troy, an unhoused man forgotten by most, and a patient in the ED.”
Irene Choi (“Insatiable”), will play Joy, “a third-year medical student with strong boundaries and a vast knowledge of medicine that leans toward the macabre.”
Will season 2 take on new healthcare-related political developments?
“The Medicaid changes are going to have a significant impact, and you don’t have to take a political position to discuss what the impact is actually going to be,” Wells told Variety about the healthcare impact of “The Big Beautiful Bill” and recent medicare cuts.
“They’re going to have on-the-ground, immediate consequences in emergency rooms, and nobody’s arguing with that. That’s a bipartisan agreement,” he continued, and those consequences will make it into season two.
“When people have less finances from the government to help them with their healthcare, they’re going to get less healthcare, and that means they’re going to end up in the only place where they can get free healthcare, which is the ER,” creator Gemmill shared in that same interview. “So the ER is just going to get busier and busier and become more of a safety net, and it’s already broken, so the system is destined for a tipping point.”
