‘Chicago Med’ Bosses Tease Season 9 Time Jump, Love Connections & Juicy Drama Ahead
11.01.2024 - 19:21
/ deadline.com
It’s been a long wait for NBC‘s Chicago Med to return with its 9th Season but with the premiere less than a week away (January 17), Deadline has some juicy nuggets to tease about the show’s return.
In the Season 8 finale, the medical drama said goodbye to Day 1-er Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) who handed in his resignation after finding himself more and more unsettled with the new changes implemented at Gaffney Chicago Medical Center following Jack Dayton’s purchase of the hospital. His main concern was Dayton’s insistence on using the O.R. 2.0. even after a machine error caused the death of a patient and could’ve also claimed Dayton’s life.
Dayton’s live surgery for investors cost him nearly all his money after showing the high-tech machine wasn’t ready for showtime. So to stay afloat financially, Dayton sells the hospital.
Season 9 picks up 6 months after the events of the prior season finale.
Deadline caught up with Chicago Med executive producers Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider this morning to set things up after a long break due to the dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
DEADLINE: It’s been so long since we last caught up with the folks at Gaffney. What have they been up to all this time?
DIANE FROLOV: Well, quite a bit. The hospital was sold to a conglomerate business consortium, so that’s been taken care of. Their personal lives, particularly Goodwin’s [S. Epatha Merkerson]…
ANDY SCHNEIDER: …we find there’s something new in her personal life. Oh, I wanted to add one thing. Since it’s been so long since we have been in production, we decided to make that part of a timeline. We didn’t think it was realistic to jump back right after the finale. So this premiere takes place six months after the finale.
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