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Scotsman
an hour ago
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- Scotsman
The Pitt: show with 95% rating still not available in the UK
The Pitt is one of the most acclaimed shows of 2025 - but you can't legally watch it in the UK 😫 Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... The Pitt is one of the most acclaimed shows of 2025. Noah Wyles returns to the world of medical TV for the show. It has a 95 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Fans of medical dramas continue to miss out on one of the most acclaimed shows of the year - at least in the UK. The Pitt debuted in America back in January 2025 but it still doesn't have a release date on this side of the pond. Noah Wyles, who was one of the stars of ER back in the 1990s and 2000s, has returned to familiar ground for this acclaimed Max show. Unlike other HBO shows it didn't immediately come to Sky Atlantic and Now TV. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad But why can't you watch it yet in the UK? Here's all you need to know: What is The Pitt about? Noah Wyle, Tracy Ifeachor in The Pitt | John Johnson/HBO The show, which brings together former ER collaborators Noah Wyles and R. Scott Gemmill, is a fresh twist on the medical drama. The synopsis for the first season on Rotten Tomatoes reads: 'A realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.' Across its 15 episodes, the show charts one single 15 hour shift in the titular hospital. Each episode covers roughly one hour of said shift - similar to how 24 worked back in the day. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad It has a 95 per cent certified fresh rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes - and an equally high 85 per cent audience score on the popcornmeter. So it seems like a real must watch. Why can't you watch The Pitt in the UK? Despite its critical acclaim and popularity with viewers in the US - it has already been renewed for a second series - it can't currently be watched legally in the UK. The show premiered on the streaming service Max (set to revert back to the name HBO Max soon) in January and it is not one that we have on this side of the pond yet. Unlike other HBO and Max shows, The Pitt has not been picked up for coverage by Sky Atlantic/ Now TV - which is a tad unusual. We reached out to Sky to see if they would be broadcasting it, but they did not respond. One wrinkle is that HBO Max is finally set to launch in the UK in 2026. It is set to bring together Max's streaming library with Discovery+ and TNT Sports - with further details in due course. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Unlike other European countries, HBO Max had not previously launched on our side of the pond due to Warner Brothers Discovery's deal with Sky - which is why shows like Game of Thrones and The White Lotus are broadcast on Sky Atlantic. However a deal has been struck and will see the ad-supported version of Max bundled in for Sky customers at no extra cost at launch, paving the way for its release in early 2026. The Pitt could be being saved as a potential draw to get people to subscribe to HBO Max upon its launch in the UK - but that is speculation on my part.
Geek Girl Authority
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
Geek Girl Authority Crush of the Week: The Pitt's DANA EVANS
Welcome to this week's installment of Geek Girl Authority Crush of the Week, wherein we spotlight strong women and non-binary folks who inspire us. These characters are prime examples of empowerment and how crucial it is for youth to have said examples to follow. DISCLAIMER: The following contains spoilers for Max's The Pitt , particularly Dana Evans's arc. Dana Evans Fast Facts While we've only known Dana Evans (Katherine LaNasa) for one season, she is among the most loved characters on The Pitt . Her can-do attitude and the way she keeps the ER (and the doctors) running have made her stand out in a short amount of time. As charge nurse, she knows everything that's going on in the ER, how the doctors and nurses work, and how to keep things under control as much as possible in such a chaotic environment. She is everyone's go-to person. RELATED: Nautilus Sets Out With Humility in a Double-Decker Sneak Peek of Its Premiere Dana has been at the same hospital for several decades, familiar with its ins and outs. This makes her reliable, but also highlights why she might be tired of dealing with the chaos and stress associated with it. It is also she who gets attacked by an angry patient, pushing her to second-guess whether she wants to continue doing her job or not. At the end of the season, her future remains unknown as we watch her take down her photos from her station and walk out. The Real Deal Dana Evans is the one everyone turns to. For Robby (Noah Wyle), she is the biggest support system. Because she knows what that date means to him, she makes sure to check in on him as often as possible. Dana keeps him as sane as she can. RELATED: Outlander: Blood of My Blood Gets Season 2 Renewal at STARZ For new doctors, she's a reassuring voice. She encourages them in the work they are doing and helps them navigate chaos. For Victoria Javadi (Shabana Azeez), she is even a confessional on her crush on Mateo (Jalen Thomas Brooks). Why She Matters Without Dana, The Pitt wouldn't be the same. Everyone would be lost without her, and that includes the audience. She is a grounding force who made a mark in one short season. RELATED: On Location: The Vancouver Public Library Central Location on Fox's Fringe So be like Dana Evans. Do your job to the best of your ability. Check in on your friends when they need it. Work with as many Utahs as possible. Go for that smoke if you need it. And always be ready for the unexpected. The Pitt is available to stream on MAX. 5 Must-Watch MAX Documentaries By day, Lara Rosales (she/her) is a solo mom by choice and a bilingual writer with a BA in Latin-American Literature who works in PR. By night, she is a TV enjoyer who used to host a podcast (Cats, Milfs & Lesbian Things). You can find her work published on Tell-Tale TV, Eulalie Magazine, Collider, USA Wire, Mentors Collective, Instelite, Noodle, Dear Movies, Nicki Swift, and Flip Screened.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Pitt Season 2: What a 50-Year-Old Novel Might Reveal About Dr. Robby's Storyline
The June 16 announcement that The Pitt was in production on Season 2 was accompanied by a compelling visual aid: A behind-the-scenes video that showed Dr. Michael 'Robby' Robinavitch enter the emergency department at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center in a heavy jacket — a jacket you wouldn't typically see a Yinzer wear on Fourth of July weekend, at which point the temperature in Western Pennsylvania hovers around 85 degrees. Also of note: Robby appears to have a motorcycle helmet strapped to his Tom Bihn travel backpack. More from TVLine The Pitt Season 1 to Air on TNT Ahead of Season 2 Premiere on HBO Max TV's Current Medical Dramas, Ranked: Our Diagnoses for The Pitt, Watson, Doc, Grey's Anatomy and More Save the Dates: Sinners to Stream on Max, The Summer I Turned Pretty Rollout Plan and More So, has our wounded hero bought himself a hog? And is it possible that he is just returning from a long, potentially healing journey after reaching his breaking point at the end of Season 1? Series star/executive producer Noah Wyle might have inadvertently answered both of those questions during an appearance on The Checkup With Dr. Mike podcast, on which he disclosed that he recently reread Robert M. Pirsig's seminal 1974 book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, for 'somewhat creative reasons having to do with Season 2 and Robby.' For those who have not read it, don't let its title fool you: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is not about motorcycle maintenance — at least not exclusively. Amazon describes it as 'a narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son' — a 540-page novel that 'becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning,' while 'the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion and humanism.' Now, as series creator R. Scott Gemmill previously told me, The Pitt Season 2 will see Robby 'getting himself mentally healthy again' — but how, exactly, he intends to do that, remains unknown. Will the ED chief take Dr. Jack Abbot up on his offer and reach out to his therapist? Or will he embark on 'a personal and philosophical odyssey' and explore 'fundamental questions on how to live'? And will his fractured relationship with Jake lead to 'a powerful self-reckoning'? If Robby's journey mirrors the narrator's in Pirsig's book, perhaps the above-mentioned first look shows our protagonist upon his return from a long, healing journey — either one he took alone, or one he took with Janey's son in an attempt to mend their relationship following Leah's death. Whereas Season 1 flashed back to the day Robby took Dr. Adamson off ECMO, Season 2 could show flashbacks from Robby's trip, in turn offering audiences a peek at our protagonist's life outside the fluorescent-lit confines of PTMC. And though Robby might think he's healed when he clocks in again, perhaps his next 15-hour shift will reveal that he still needs professional help. 'In the first season, Robby has an Adamson on his shoulder,' Wyle told Dr. Mike. 'But in Season 2, everybody has an Adamson on their shoulder. How does everybody get through a mass casualty event, 10 months on the other side of it, and move on? Answering those questions for every character as thoughtfully as we can has been the thesis of Season 2. It's almost as if the first season was about diagnosing the problem, and Season 2 is about finding a method of treatment.' Robby, he said, has to be 'a bit of a leader in advocating for some mental health… but whether he takes it on himself will be an interesting journey.' So, what do you think? Am I onto something with this theory? Or do you anticipate that all of Robby's healing will occur on screen, during his Season 2 shift? Sound off in Comments. The Pitt Season 2: Everything We Know View List Best of TVLine 20+ Age-Defying Parent-Child Castings From Blue Bloods, ER, Ginny & Georgia, Golden Girls, Supernatural and More Young Sheldon Easter Eggs: Every Nod to The Big Bang Theory (and Every Future Reveal) Across 7 Seasons Weirdest TV Crossovers: Always Sunny Meets Abbott, Family Guy vs. Simpsons, Nine-Nine Recruits New Girl and More
ABC News
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- ABC News
The moral injury of The Pitt is no fiction. Healthcare workers deserve to be heard
It's sickening to watch a healthcare worker trying to help someone, to save a life even, whilst lacking the right tools, or resources to do so. Not enough blood, donor organs, equipment, beds, staff. There are some moments in The Pitt, a 15-part Max series spanning a single 12-hour workday (with three extra hours of overtime following a mass shooting event) in an emergency room in a Pittsburgh hospital, which are gruelling to watch. Patients, shot in the heart, losing blood too quickly to replace, a young girl dying because she fished her sister out of a pool but couldn't save herself, the crimson underpants of a miscarriage. Bellies bulging, skulls slicing, flesh oozing, veins spurting. The hospital staff are peed on, punched in the head, splattered in blood, startled by rats that escape from a patient's clothing, blamed for unavoidable deaths. It's brutal. And still, they come to work. In a closing scene, the lead character, Dr Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, played superbly by Noah Wyle, says to the assembled staff, who are wired, exhausted, relieved and devastated: "This place will break your heart." He tells them to be proud of what they did, of the lives they saved, but that it's also okay to cry: "It's just grief leaving the body." The social problems blaze like flares through the episodes: fentanyl, homelessness, gun violence, custody battles, lost young men, junior doctors struggling to pay their own rent, a crowded emergency room that never empties. Underpinning it all is the trauma of the most senior doctor, Dr Robby. This day is the fifth anniversary of the death of the former head doctor, Dr Adamson, from COVID-19 complications, one that has weighed on Dr Robby ever since, as he was forced to eventually divert sparse resources from Adamson to a younger patient in need. Both died. They didn't have enough resources then, and are understaffed now. The moral injury is clear, and it is what grabs your heart throughout the show. Moral injury is generally defined as "the psychological, social and spiritual impact of events involving betrayal or transgression of one's own deeply held moral beliefs and values occurring in high stakes situations." The term was first used to described soldiers returning from war, who felt their moral code had been burned in some way. These were "transgressions that involve[d] people doing or failing to do things themselves (deliberately or unwittingly); and being exposed directly or indirectly to transgressions on the part of someone else (betrayal, bearing witness to grave inhumanity)." This can lead to a grief, shame, and a range of mental consequences, including depression, anxiety, lack of belief in people, justice, or particular moral causes. It was during the overwhelm of COVID that many first began to become aware of moral injury, and the literature on it has mounted rapidly in the past five years. A guide to moral stress among healthcare workers during COVID-19 was produced in 2020 by Phoenix Australia, Centre for Post Traumatic Mental Health. It describes moral stress as a spectrum: "In the context of COVID-19 a severe moral stressor would be, for example, a healthcare worker having to, due to lack of resources, deny treatment to a patient they know will die without that treatment." More common and less severe moral stressors would include "being unable to provide optimal care to non-COVID-19 patients, and concern about passing the virus on to loved ones." When there are systemic problems, shortages of staff, lack of money, insufficient organ donors, delays in treatment, and over-burdened medical systems with long wait times in or out of emergency systems, doctors and nurses can feel it deeply. Sometimes they are unable to help in the way they have been trained, and sometimes, they are too exhausted. It's the difference between saying: "We did all we could" to a patient's relatives, and saying "We did our best with the resources available, but it wasn't enough." This is why it is recommended that in ICU settings, triage staff, who assess priority of need, are separated from clinical staff. Studies have shown nurses also experienced post traumatic growth after COVID-19, with greater gratitude, a sense of their own competence and insight. But burnout of health care workers even before the pandemic has been well documented, and it is only recently that moral injury is being factored in. Around the country, doctors, nurses, midwives and specialists like psychiatrists have been resigning, signing group letters and protesting in the streets in recent years. This is often portrayed simply as a bid for more pay. This is part of it. But it's also a cry for recognition of the pressures they and the medical system are under. In January, 200 psychiatrists resigned from NSW's public health system, arguing that they were unable to care properly for their patients due to systemic decline. Professor of psychiatry Pat McGorry told the ABC: "It's like working in a third world sort of environment, to be honest — the moral injury of turning away seriously ill people every day and not being able to provide the care that people need and could benefit from." What is needed, he said, is for the NSW government to "commit to a plan to rebuild". A December 2023 survey by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists found 94 per cent Australian psychiatrists said the workforce shortage negatively impacted patient care, and 82 per cent said these shortages were the main factor contributing to burnout (which seven in ten reported experiencing symptoms of). In April, NSW hospital doctors walked off the job for three days, citing chronic understaffing, low pay and impossible workloads. Nurses and midwives have protested for better staffing, as have Victorian mental health workers. Let's remember, too, that doctors in war zones and third world countries wrestle with this in far more extreme, horrific circumstances. Imagine being a doctor in Gaza now, struggling to care for kids with blasted limbs and dead parents, lacking basic equipment and supplies. An MSF survey found 40 per cent of those who died of injuries there were under 10. We read reports of medical teams fainting from fatigue, heat and lack of food, of mobile hospitals waiting to gain entry. The accounts of Gaza's most senior doctors are hellish. When qualified, experienced people leave the medical system, we all suffer. Even watching The Pitt, when the long serving charge nurse of the ER, Dana, says she wants to leave after an angry patient gives her a black eye, you gasp at the thought that her obvious skill and expertise might be lost. If you snuggle under blankets with a cup of tea at night to watch compelling dramas like The Pitt, to worry about the pain on doctor's faces, the tears in nurse's eyes, the broken people slumped in emergency room chairs, just know that this is no fictional tale and the people who sign up to serve us deserve to be heard. Juila Baird is an author, broadcaster, journalist and co-host of the ABC podcast, Not Stupid.
Yahoo
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
My favorite Max medical drama with 95% on Rotten Tomatoes is getting a second season – and my heart is racing over a 2026 release window for The Pitt season 2
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Pitt is my very favorite show of 2025, and HBO has confirmed that production has now started on season 2 of the hit medical drama. The HBO Max Original has been a huge success, gaining a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from the critics and sitting comfortably in Max's top three most-watched streaming shows worldwide. The press release hasn't shared any more information, but a few days ago it was revealed that the second season would stream in January 2026 and would bring a host of new faces into the ER – including Skinny Pete from Breaking Bad, aka the actor Charles Baker. Baker will be joined by Irene Choie, Laëtitia Hollard, and Lucas Iverson. As Hello magazine reports, Baker will be playing an unhoused man called Troy; Iren Choie will be Joy, a medical student "with strong boundaries"; Laëtitia Hollard plays a recent nursing school graduate; and Lucas Iverson will play James, a fourth year medical student. Noah Wyle, the man with the saddest eyes on any streamer, will of course return as Dr Robbie, and he previously told Deadline that the second season will take place over the Fourth of July weekend. Dr King, Dr Abbot, Dr Langdon and charge nurse Dana Evans are confirmed to be returning too. I genuinely loved every episode of season 1 of one of the best Max shows, and cried quite a lot in every single one of them: it's a show with a huge heart and the cast are exceptional. In a time when there are many horrible things happening it reminds me of Fred Rogers' famous line: "look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." The Pitt season 1 is streaming now on Max. Season 2 is scheduled for January 2026. The best Max shows: 39 great series to stream in June 2025 The Last of Us creators confirm exactly what I expected for season 3 of the hit HBO Max show 5 of the biggest streaming announcements from Warner Bros. Discovery Upfront 2025, from HBO Max shows to the new Superman trailer
