‘The Pitt’ Star Officially Confirms Return in Season 3

Image via Warrick Page / ©HBO MAX/ Courtesy Everett Collection Published Oct 30, 2026, 4:05 PM EDT Sign in to your Collider account HBO has become one of the biggest platforms in the world due to its ability to take risks, and there was no bigger gamble than The Pitt. The studio was no stranger to prestige dramas like The Sopranos and Succession, but one genre that HBO had stayed away from over the years is the medical drama. Back at the start of 2024, HBO decided to dip its toes into the genre with the first season of The Pitt, the unorthodox medical drama starring Noah Wyle. Wyle spent years recurring as Doctor John Carter on ER, and millions of ER fans tuned in to see him star as Dr. Robby in a new medical drama nearly 20 years after ER went off the air. The Pitt has become one of the most-watched shows on TV since its premiere in 2024. After the first season of The Pitt hit streaming in January 2024, Season 2 returned exactly one year later, and HBO has already confirmed that Season 3 will be released next year around the same time. This level of turnaround is nearly unheard of in the modern streaming era, where many shows often take years-long breaks between seasons. The Pitt Season 3 will look a little different than Season 2, especially after it was confirmed that Supriya Ganesh will not reprise her role as Dr. Samira Mohan. Even Shabana Azeez, who plays Victoria Javadi, will step into a smaller role in Season 3, but there are other stars who will be back. Collider’s Steve Weintraub recently spoke with The Pitt star Jalen Thomas Brooks (Nurse Mateo Diaz) at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, and when asked if he was going to be back in Season 3, Brooks had this to say: “I will be there. I will be in Season 3. I don’t know much, just like how everybody on that show never really knows. But what I do know is that the people behind The Pitt, and that whole creative team, they care a lot about what they’re doing. They’re so seasoned, and they have stories to tell — important ones, too. So, you’re going to continue to see stories of importance and see professionals and masters at class.” COLLIDERInteractive Five wards on call TV/Medical Drama/Shift Assignment Collider · TV Medicine Which Fictional HospitalWould You Work Best In? Eight questions · five wards · one assignment Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television: brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for, and eight questions will work out exactly where you belong. Wards accepting PTMCThe Pitt CGHER GSMGrey's Anatomy PPTHHouse SHHScrubs Find your hospital Question 01 of 08APPROACH 01 A critical patient comes through the door. What is your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you really are. AStay completely present. Block everything else out and work it step by step, right now. BTriage fast and delegate. Get the right people on the right problems immediately. CTrust my gut and move. I work best when I stop overthinking and just act. DAsk the question everyone else is ignoring. What is the thing that does not fit? ETake a breath, make a joke to cut the tension, then get to work. Panic helps nobody. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Next Question 02 of 08MOTIVATION 02 Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you would give in an interview. ABecause I wanted to be where it matters most, right at the edge, when a life is on the line. BBecause I wanted to help people, one patient at a time, in a system that makes it hard. CBecause I was drawn to the intensity of it: the stakes, the drama, the feeling of being fully alive. DBecause medicine is the most interesting puzzle there is, and I needed a problem worth solving. EBecause I wanted to make a difference, and also, honestly, I did not know what else to do. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Next Question 03 of 08COLLEAGUES 03 What do you want most from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are. ACompetence and calm. I need people who do not fall apart when things get bad. BTrust and reliability. When I pass something off I want to know it is handled. CConnection. I want colleagues who become family, even when that gets complicated. DIntelligence and the willingness to be challenged. People who just agree with me are useless. EFriendship. People I like spending twelve hours a day with, because those hours are happening anyway. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Next Question 04 of 08LOSS 04 You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who has worked a long shift has had to answer this one. AI carry it. All of it. I do not look for ways to put it down, because that weight is part of doing this honestly. BI process it and move. You have to, or the next patient pays for the one you just lost. CI feel it deeply and lean on the people around me. Nobody is supposed to handle that alone. DI go back over every decision, not to punish myself, but because I need to know what I missed. EI grieve it, find something unrelated to laugh about, and try to be kind to myself. Imperfectly. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Next Question 05 of 08STYLE 05 How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image. AIntense and completely present. No small talk during a shift, but exactly who you want there. BSteady and dependable. Not the flashiest in the room, but never the one who drops something. CPassionate and occasionally chaotic. Brilliant on the hard cases, prone to drama everywhere else. DBrilliant and difficult. Right more often than anyone else, and everyone knows it, including me. EWarm and self-deprecating. Not the most intimidating presence, but good at this and easy to like. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Next Question 06 of 08RULES 06 How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice. AProtocol is the floor, not the ceiling. I follow it until the patient needs something it cannot give. BI respect it. The system is broken in places, but the structure exists for a reason and I work inside it. CI follow it until my instincts say otherwise, and my instincts are usually right, even when they cause trouble. DRules are for people who have not thought hard enough about when to break them. EI try to follow it and mostly do, with a few memorable exceptions that still come up in meetings. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Next Question 07 of 08TOLL 07 What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What is yours? AEverything outside these walls. I gave this job my full attention and the rest of my life went around it. BMy idealism, mostly. I came in believing the system could be fixed and I made a complicated peace with that. CStability. My personal life has been as chaotic as the OR, and that is not entirely a coincidence. DMy relationships. I am not easy to know, and the people who tried would probably agree. EMy sense of gravity. I use humor as a coping mechanism, which not everyone appreciates in a hospital. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Next Question 08 of 08PURPOSE 08 At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this one is the most honest thing about you. AThe fact that it is real. Nothing else I could be doing would matter this much, right now, today. BThe patients. Individual human beings who needed something and got it because I was there. CThe people I work with. I have walked through impossible things with them and I would do it again. DThe next unsolved case. There is always another puzzle, and I am not done yet. EBecause despite the exhaustion, the loss and the absurdity of it, I love this job. ← Back Keys 1 to 5 or A to E · Enter to advance Reveal my hospital Assignment madeYou belong in PTMC · Admitted The Pitt Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center This ward asks whether you can stay in the room for the whole shift, and come back tomorrow. You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has shown, the one that puts you inside a single long shift and does not let you look away. You need your work to be real rather than romanticized, and you find your purpose inside the work itself rather than in the chaos around it. You have made peace with a job that takes from you constantly and gives back in ways that are harder to name. What this ward asks of you Meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics. The discipline to stay present when the department is at its worst. A tolerance for weight that does not get put down at the end of the day. From the Collider file Each episode covers roughly one hour of the same emergency-department shift, in order. Noah Wyle has now won the lead drama actor Emmy for it twice, in 2025 and again in 2026. It reunites the ER team of Wyle, John Wells and R. Scott Gemmill, thirty years on. Fully present No romance Built to endure CGH · Admitted ER County General Hospital, Chicago This ward asks whether you can hold the line long enough for the next person to take it. You are the one who keeps the whole floor moving. Not the most brilliant in the room, possibly the most essential. You show up, do the work, absorb the losses and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is. You care about patients as individual people rather than as cases to solve or dramas to live inside, and you believe in the system even on the days it fails you. What this ward asks of you Reliability above brilliance, every single shift. Faith in a structure that is visibly imperfect. The stamina to treat the hundredth patient like the first. From the Collider file Fifteen seasons and 331 episodes, from 1994 to 2009, created by Michael Crichton. It holds the record for the most Emmy nominations of any drama series, with 124. George Clooney, Julianna Margulies and Noah Wyle all broke out of County General. Shows up Endurance Patient first GSM · Admitted Grey's Anatomy Grey Sloan Memorial, Seattle This ward asks whether you can do the work with your whole self in the room. You came to medicine with everything you have, your ambition, your feelings, your relationships and your history, and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door. You form deep attachments to the people you work with, and your personal and professional lives stay permanently, chaotically tangled. That tangle drives both your worst disasters and your most remarkable saves, because you understand that extraordinary medicine often happens where clinical skill meets human connection. What this ward asks of you A willingness to feel all of it rather than seal any of it off. Colleagues who become family, with everything that costs. Comfort with mess, in the OR and everywhere else. From the Collider file Shonda Rhimes' series passed ER to become the longest-running primetime medical drama on US television. It is on season 22, with ABC having already renewed it for a twenty-third. Ellen Pompeo has played Meredith Grey across three decades of television. Feels everything Found family Beautifully messy PPTH · Admitted House Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital This ward asks whether you can be right when everyone in the room needs you to be wrong. You are drawn to the problem above everything: the symptom that does not fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one. The patient as a person is not your first motivation, though you are capable of caring more than you would admit. You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong. Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary and impossible mind, and everyone near it is there because they can keep up. What this ward asks of you Thinking harder than anyone else in the room, then defending it. A high tolerance for being disliked while you are right. Interest in the puzzle that outlasts your interest in being comfortable. From the Collider file Eight seasons built on Sherlock Holmes: House and Holmes, Wilson and Watson, and an apartment at 221B. Hugh Laurie taped his audition in a hotel bathroom in Namibia while shooting another film. By 2008 it was the most-watched television show on earth, with an audience around 82 million. Chases the puzzle Difficult on purpose Usually right SHH · Admitted Scrubs Sacred Heart Hospital, California This ward asks whether you can hold the tragedy and the absurdity at the same time. You understand that medicine is devastating and ridiculous in roughly equal measure, and that the only sane response is to carry both at once. You are warm, self-aware and funnier than most people in your field. You use humor to get through terrible moments, which at Sacred Heart is a survival strategy rather than a flaw. You lean on the people around you and let them lean back, because here the laughter and the grief are inseparable. What this ward asks of you Humor that never curdles into cruelty. The honesty to admit you are still learning how to do this. People you can lean on, and the willingness to be leaned on. From the Collider file Nine seasons from Bill Lawrence, filmed largely inside a real decommissioned hospital in North Hollywood. Working doctors have repeatedly named it the most accurate medical show on television. Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke returned for an ABC revival that premiered in February 2026. Laughs to cope Still learning Leans on people Shift report · your top three 1 2 3 ↻ Retake the quiz Copied to your clipboard Chart signed byCOLLIDERCollider.com · The TV Desk ‘The Pitt’ Is Unlike Any Show on TV Weintraub and Brooks continued their conversation, and when Weintraub said how impressed he’s been by the show returning on such a sharp timeline the last few years, Brooks elaborated some on the behind-the-scenes process, saying, “When [new episodes of the show] come out, we’re still filming it. So, it feels like that old-school vibe.” Brooks is referring to classic, procedural network shows like NCIS and Blue Bloods that would (and still do) release new seasons every year while also filming new episodes from the next season. Check out the first two seasons of The Pitt on HBO Max and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 3. Release Date January 9, 2025 Network Max Showrunner R. Scott Gemmill Cast Noah Wyle Dr. Michael 'Robby' Robinavitch Tracy Ifeachor Dr. Heather Collins Directors Amanda Marsalis Writers Joe Sachs, Cynthia Adarkwa Creator(s) R. Scott Gemmill