A second season of HBO Max’s The Pitt is on the way.
The first season of the medical drama series received 13 Emmy nominations ahead of the 2025 ceremony, including noms for Outstanding Drama and Outstanding Actor for star Noah Wyle.
Find all the details about the upcoming second season of The Pitt below:
When will Sason 2 of The Pitt come out?
A specific release date has not yet been specified, but January 2026 is the release window.
Is The Pitt Season 2 in production?
Season 2 began production mid-June 2025.
Who is in the cast of The Pitt? Who will be back for Season 2?
Led by writer and executive producer Wyle in the role of Dr. Michael Robinavitch, who will be back for Season 2, the ensemble cast also includes Katherine LaNasa as Dana Evans, Taylor Dearden as Dr. Melissa King, Patrick Ball as Dr. Frank Langdon, Isa Briones as Dr. Trinity Santos, Fiona Dourif as Dr. Cassie McKay, Supriya Ganesh as Dr. Samira Mohan, Shabana Azeez as Dr. Victoria Javadi, Gerran Howell as Dr. Dennis Whitaker and guest star Shawn Hatosy as Dr. Jack Abbot.
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Tracy Ifeachor will not return for Season 2 as Dr. Heather Collins.
Will there be new characters in The Pitt Season 2?
Yes, Lawrence Robinson will portray a charming patient Brian Hancock, who makes the most of his soccer injury as a meet cute with one of the doctors. Deadline broke the news of Robinson’s casting in the recurring role.
Sepideh Moafi has also joined Season 2 as an attending physician in emergency medicine.
Charles Baker, Irene Choi, Laëtitia Hollard, and Lucas Iverson have also joined the recurring cast, Deadline reported exclusively. Deadline also broke the news of Zack Morris’ (Goosebumps) casting in a recurring role.
What will Season 2 of The Pitt be about?
Season 2 will pick up 10 months after the final hour of Season 1, which concluded April 10. Showrunner R. Scott Gemmill hinted that Season 2 will take place over Fourth of July weekend during a day-long shift, which will likely see all kinds of ER patients.
“Our job is not to outdo ourselves. Our job is to do ourselves. So think about what worked the first time and do it again. Don’t think about raising a bar on yourself. You don’t have to play by the rules we’ve established. Be faithful to the characters. We introduce the world to take the story that much further. So that’s kind of what our discipline’s been,” Wyle told Deadline. “There are exciting things that will happen, but it shouldn’t feel like we need to come out the gate with a bang to get attention. I think we’ll just tell another story.”
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Gemmill also teased that Wyle’s character Dr. “Robby” Robinavitch will acknowledge that he needs help regarding his mental health in Season 2. A main thread in Season 1 was Robby’s inability to cope with his mentor’s death during the pandemic.
“Part of … season 2 is seeing Dr. Robby acknowledge that he needs help, that he hasn’t gotten the help he needs, and to encourage his coworkers to seek help to take away that stigma,” said Gemmill at an HRTS discussion in July. “One of the movements afoot is to make a mental health check sort of mandatory for healthcare workers. And that way, if everyone has to do it, then that takes away the stigma. So doctors who do have a problem or who fall off, whether through addictions, as an example, there are programs that will help them get help and get back to becoming a doctor again.”
Gemill also mentioned Patrick Ball’s Dr. Langdon’s sobriety journey as a factor in the time jump between seasons.
Who else is behind The Pitt?
R. Scott Gemmill created the series, which is produced by John Wells. The medical drama is produced by John Wells Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television — where JWP is under an overall deal. EPs are Wyle, Wells, JWP’s Erin Jontow, Michael Hissrich and Simran Baidwan.
Deadline exclusively reported that Hatosy will direct an episode of Season 2 of The Pitt. Amanda Marsalis serves as director and EP, Myriam Arougheti is head makeup artist and Cathy Sandrich Gelfond serves as casting director.
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Is there a trailer for The Pitt Season 2?
No full trailer yet, but HBO Max released a teaser clip mid-August.
