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'The Pitt' Sets Season 2 Premiere on Max With 15-Hour July 4 ER Shift

The Emmy-winning real-time drama stages a computer outage that forces PTMC to go analog.

Overview

  • Season 2 premieres Thursday, January 8, 2026 on Max, with 15 episodes rolling out weekly to a Thursday, April 16 finale.
  • The new run again unfolds in real time over a single 15-hour emergency department shift during a busy Fourth of July.
  • Promotional footage shows a hospital-wide systems shutdown that sends the ER to paper charts and manual workarounds.
  • Most of the original cast returns, Tracy Ifeachor’s Dr. Collins does not, and Sepideh Moafi joins as Dr. Al-Hashimi, stepping in while Dr. Robby takes a sabbatical.
  • Trailers indicate Dana returns after considering quitting and Langdon resumes duties after rehab, as Season 1 reenters Max’s top-ten streaming ranks ahead of the debut.