Do you want to see The Pitt have a night shift spin-off? Well, according to Noah Wyle, we don’t want one, but what if we do? Wyle, who stars in and executive produces The Pitt, is pretty strong in pushing back on the idea of a night shift-focused spin-off, arguing that fans are already getting the right amount of those characters. That’s the problem with a good TV show. People immediately want more and more of it, and not just new episodes; they also want more corners of the world, side characters’ backstories, and spin-offs. *The Pitt *has officially reached that stage, which is both a compliment and a warning sign. But Wyle isn’t convinced by it.

Speaking on the A Lot More podcast, Wyle said, “I said off-handedly the other day that I think we’re getting enough night shift. And I think you want more, but you’re getting what I think is appropriate.” The answer wasn’t exactly well received by fans, and Wyle said he was criticized for sounding “patronizing and pretentious,” but he doubled down on the basic point. “I still don’t think you need more night shift. Those are great characters. It’s a wonderful energy.” So it’s not a complete no, but given the power Wyle wields behind the scenes on the show, it’s fair to say if he’s not up for it right now, then it’s not going to happen.

Wyle has his reasons, though, because he explained that the team has spoken with real emergency room night shift workers, and the reality may not be as wild as viewers assume. “You know who works mostly night shift? Mothers,” he said. “Because they like to be free for their kids [and] to be home during the day. So, it’s a lot less wild and woolly, and a lot more boring and sedate than you would think.” Wyle’s biggest concern, though, is protecting the show itself. He said,

“I’ll say personally, I feel like when you have something that’s a really good thing, and it’s working for you, you don’t want to dissipate it too quickly. You don’t want to bleed it off into other narratives and franchise it out, because I think you kind of dilute the potency a little bit and you get everybody overfamiliar with the arena to where it loses a little bit of its specialness.”

Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.

You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.

You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.

You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.

You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.

You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.

The Pitt stars Tracy Ifeachor (Quantico, Treadstone) as Dr. Heather Collins, Patrick Ball (Law & Order, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) as Dr. Frank Langdon, Katherine LaNasa (The Campaign, The Frozen Ground) as Dana Evans, Supriya Ganesh (Grown-ish, Fresh Off the Boat) as Dr. Samira Mohan, Fiona Dourif (The Master, Curse of Chucky) as Dr. Cassie McKay, Taylor Dearden (Sweet/Vicious, Breaking Bad) as Dr. Melissa “Mel” King, Isa Briones (Star Trek: Picard, Goosebumps) as Dr. Trinity Santos, Gerran Howell (Catch-22, Suspicion) as Dennis Whitaker, and Shabana Azeez (Birdeater, Metro Sexual) as Victoria Javadi, Shawn Hatosy (The Faculty, Alpha Dog) as Dr. Jack Abbot, Ayesha Harris (Daisy Jones & The Six, This Is Us) as Dr. Parker Ellis, Jalen Thomas Brooks (Walker, Animal Kingdom) as Mateo Diaz, Brandon Méndez Homer (The Good Doctor, Jane the Virgin) as Donnie, Kristin Villanueva (The Offer, Law & Order: Organized Crime) as Princess, and Joanna Going (Wyatt Earp, Runaway Jury) as Theresa Saunders.

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