The Pitt

The Max Original The Pitt has announced it will be returning on January 8, 2026 for Season 2. “The Pitt” follows a group of emergency room health care workers through a single emergency department shift at the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. Season one found the staff dealing with overdoses, family conflicts, birth and death, and a mass shooting that extended the shift past its scheduled end. The show portrayed numerous challenges faced by real life medical staff in emergency rooms across the country. The show takes its setting in not only a hospital but a Pittsburgh hospital seriously.The Pitt doesn’t just set itself in Pittsburgh but immerses itself in it, from the food from local restaurants ordered on shift to the references to Mr. Rodger’s neighborhood. The Pitt feels like a fusion of ER and 24 and using 24′s real time format with each episode covering one hour of the shift.

Season 2 is set to take place ten months after the end of Season 1’s finale, and will air on January 8, 2026 on HBO MAX.

The Pitt won five Emmys for its first season and is executive produced by R. Scott Gemmill, Noah Wyle, John Wells, Michael Hissrich, Erin Jontow and Simran Baidwan

Returning cast includes: Patrick Ball (Dr. Langdon), Katherine LaNasa (Dana Evans), Supriya Ganesh (Dr. Mohan), Fiona Dourif (Dr. McKay), Taylor Dearden (Dr. King), Isa Briones (Dr. Santos), Gerran Howell (Whitaker), Shabana Azeez (Javadi) and Sepideh Moafi (Dr. Al-Hashimi). New to Season 2: Luke Tennie (Dr. Crus Henderson), Travis Van Winkle (Curtis Larson), Meta Golding (Noelle Hastings) and Christopher Thornton (Dr. Caleb Jefferson)