The Pitt, the prestige medical drama starring ER 's Noah Wyle, has received a big update after announcing four new cast members for its second season. The critically-acclaimed show will see Luke Tennie, Travis Van Winkle, Meta Golding and Christopher Thornton join the cast for season two.

Season two of US medical drama The Pitt, starring Noah Wyle, will return Friday, 9 January on HBO Max. The 15-episode second season is a realistic dramatisation of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today’s America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh.

The NBC series starring Noah Wyle was the first medical drama to win SAG’s outstanding ensemble in a drama series award.

In 2019, Wyle, who received five Emmy nominations for his work on ER, explained his decision to leave the show. In fact, he knows the exact date he knew he had to make a change. "I'm going to be so specific," Wyle told The Hollywood Reporter. "Nov. 9, 2002.

There has been yet another development in the ongoing lawsuit alleging that The Pitt was only born out of an ER reboot that never made it off the ground. It was announced in August last year that the estate of ER creator Michael Crichton was suing Warner Bros.