A change is coming at the helm of Chicago Med: after nine seasons, co-showrunners Diane Frolov and Andy Schneider will step down at the end of the season. The duo led the Dick Wolf series to nine successful seasons on NBC. The series has continually won its 8 p.m. Wednesday time period by averaging more than 10.5 million viewers.
NBC has renewed all three One Chicago series — Chicago Med, Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. — for the 2024-25 season. Med was renewed for Season 10, Fire for Season 13 and P.D. for Season 12. The trio of shows returned in January following a long break due to the dual writers and actors strikes with shortened seasons.
Chicago Med is staffing back up, adding a new doc for the upcoming ninth season — and he’s already got a history with one of the hospital’s finest.
NBC earlier this week picked up all six Wolf Entertainment series — Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Organized Crime — for next season. The renewals came with an asterisk as casts were told that they will appear in fewer episodes next year. The development comes on the heels of CBS recently renewing veteran drama Blue Bloods for a 14th season after the cast agreed to a 25% pay cut. And, the actors on another recently renewed CBS series, comedy Bob ❤️ Abishola, also had to agree to a substantial, double-digit salary reduction for the show to get a Season 5 renewal. (According to sources, it was less than 25%). Blue Bloods comes from CBS sibling CBS Studios, Bob ❤️ Abishola from an outside supplier, Warner Bros. TV.
Chicago Med star Brian Tee will exit the series following eight seasons on the medical drama with episode 9 titled “Could Be The Start Of Something New” airing Dec. 7 serving as his final appearance. He will, however, return for episode 16 offscreen to make his directorial debut.
Exclusives
Kristen Hager is leaving NBC medical drama Chicago Med, but executive producers Diane Frolov and Andy Schneider are leaving the door open for a return. “We all really liked Kristen and would welcome her character coming back in the future,” Frolov and Schneider said in a joint statement.
NBC’s Chicago Med has paused filming for the next two weeks due to a positive COVID-19 test. The Chicago-based medical drama shut down production Tuesday when a regular rapid test, part of the show’s safety protocols, delivered a positive result. The person in question, a production team member, was immediately sent home, sources said.
The network hands out three-year renewals to the prolific producer for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and his three Chicago series as part of a new five-year deal to keep his Wolf Entertainment production company at Universal Television.
NBC is staying put in the Windy City: The network has renewed Chicago Fire and its spinoffs Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med, it was announced on Tuesday. Fire has been picked up for season 8, while P.D. and Med will return for their seventh and fifth seasons, respectively.
Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med have all been renewed for the 2017-18 season. However, no decision has yet been made on the fourth addition to the Windy City franchise, Chicago Justice, which premiered earlier this year, or on producer Dick Wolf’s fifth scripted series at NBC, Law & Order: SVU.
Thirty years into his tenure at Universal Television, Dick Wolf continues to be the studio’s top drama producer. And now Wolf, who accomplished the rare feat of creating two hugely successful drama franchises — Law & Order and Chicago — is extending his stay with a new blockbuster deal. The five-year pact with NBCUniversal, which will keep Wolf at the company through 2020, came after months of negotiations.
A few years ago, the producer behind the Law & Order empire at NBC saw his three primetime shows cut back to one, and was stung when the original series was canceled just shy of setting a record for the longest-running scripted prime-time show. He settled for a tie. Now, Wolf makes the Chicago trilogy of dramas for NBC and is talking about a fourth.
The tinkering continues. The latest post-upfronts scheduling change to the fall lineup is at NBC, where actress Melissa George’s pregnancy has prompted the network to shift the medical drama to midseason. The 8 p.m. Tuesday slot now goes to another doctor drama, Dick Wolf’s Chicago Med.
