R. Scott Gemmill and EP John Wells talk about crafting the new Noah Wyle-led "The Pitt," and the perks of making a procedural for streaming

Max's new hospital drama The Pitt aims to bring some gritty realism to medical procedurals. Noah Wyle leads the series as Dr. Michael "Robby" Rabinovitch. The show was created by ER writer R. Scott Gemmill and executive produced by ER showrunner John Wells.

The Pitt,” on HBO’s streaming platform Max, is a weekly medical drama that emulates the kind of shows that have long been — and remain — a staple on network TV. It’s an instructive blueprint for other streamers to follow suit.

Television and Max for giving us this opportunity to return to the world of urban medicine," Gemmill, Wyle and John Wells said in a joint statemen

The second episode of The Pitt — the new Max medical drama starring Noah Wyle as the chief attending doctor in an overwhelmed emergency room in Pittsburgh — ends with the grimmest four minutes I've seen on TV in a while.

Thirty years after ER “set the tone” for all medical dramas that followed, series star Noah Wyle has re-teamed with executive producers John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill on The Pitt, which ups the adrenaline with its real-time format.