Errr … lawsuits are the pits! Noah Wyle addressed Sherri Crichton’s lawsuit towards his new present The Pitt for the primary time in a Selection interview. “The one factor that I can legally communicate to is how I really feel emotionally, which is simply profoundly unhappy and disenchanted,” he stated. “This taints the legacy, and it shouldn’t have.” Crichton, the widow of ER creator Michael Crichton, was beforehand working with Wyle and the creators of The Pitt on a reboot of ER that finally fell aside. That led Wyle, with R. Scott Gemmill and John Wells, each ER producers who had been additionally engaged on the reboot, to The Pitt, Max’s new medical-drama hit. “At one level, this might have been a partnership,” Wyle stated. “And when it wasn’t a partnership, it didn’t want to show acrimonious. However on the thirtieth anniversary of ER, I’ve by no means felt much less celebratory of that achievement than I do that yr.”
Sherri Crichton’s lawsuit, which was filed in August 2024, calls The Pitt an unauthorized reboot of ER that doesn’t correctly credit score Michael Crichton or compensate his heirs, per the New York Occasions. Warner Bros., named within the go well with alongside Wyle, Gemmill, and Wells, responded by saying that “the lawsuit filed by the Crichton Property is baseless” and referred to as The Pitt a “new and unique present.” Notably, The Pitt operates with a conceit that ER doesn’t: Your entire season takes place in a single daylong interval. Perhaps the fellows who made 24 ought to sue too?