A Great Update About ‘The Pitt’ Season 2’s Release Date

HBO Max (formerly Max, formerly HBO Max, formerly HBO) saw enormous success with The Pitt, its ER/24 combination that quickly became a fan-favorite. It announced that its goal was to pump out seasons quickly, and while that seemed unlikely in the current state of the streaming industry, there’s some good news on whether or not that can happen.

The Pitt actress Shabana Azeez, who played Dr. Javadi, recently posted a picture confirming that filming had commenced as planned in June, just a short while after The Pitt season 1 ended.

The Pitt season 1 premiered in January of 2025 and ran until April 10 with a highly unusual 15-episode season. More unusual is the goal that the next season would be out much sooner than the 1.5-3 year gap between most streaming seasons. The idea was to have it out every year.

We have data that The Pitt season 1 filming began in July of 2024, so that was six months before it premiered in January of 2025. So if filming is beginning now, in June of 2025, that would put the release date of The Pitt season 2 around either December of 2025 or perhaps once again in January of 2026, if it’s pushed a little bit.

It is almost unheard of for two seasons of a streaming show to debut a year apart these days. We only see this in rare instances like with The Bear or Slow Horses. The broadcast model of 24 episodes seasons once a year is dead. But The Pitt? 15 episode seasons a year apart? That is truly a time warp, and it’s no wonder that HBO Max wants to steam ahead with this, so long as it doesn’t affect quality.

You can make some similar comparisons to Hulu’s The Bear, in fact, where both shows take place almost entirely within a single environment. The Bear, its restaurant. The Pitt, its ER department, the waiting room and the ambulance bay. And maybe two scenes on the roof, that’s it. That said, this is still 50% more episodes than the 10-episode Bear seasons, and longer ones, at that. This really is a unicorn in the industry if they can pull it off.

We know that almost the entire core cast will be returning to the show, including some actors who could have been written off due to various circumstances. In terms of the plot, we know that the day in question will be the Fourth of July, the busiest day in ERs around the country, and it will be Dr. Langdon’s first day back after what is presumably a suspension/rehab stint. And it will be here in six months, thereabouts. Wild.

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