The Pitt star Noah Wyle is on this week's Radio Times cover
Noah Wyle stars in The Pitt, the gritty medical drama from the makers of ER, and the show that real doctors recommend.
We feature a different kind of drama on our cover this week, one that swaps stylised thrills for something altogether more bracing: verisimilitude. The Pitt, the US medical drama starring Noah Wyle, has already won armfuls of awards in America and now it's coming to British screens.
Don't get me started on TV shows set in newspaper or magazine offices – for me they're almost never like the real thing. And, it turns out, doctors feel much the same about medical dramas.
Yet The Pitt appears to be the exception. This is a show that America's doctors actually watch and, more tellingly, recognise. Many say it's the closest that television has come to capturing the reality of life on the front line.
Each episode follows an hour in a single shift in a Pittsburg emergency department, unfolding in real time, with Wyle's Dr "Robby" Rabinovitch at the centre, trying to hold things together as the pressure mounts. It's urgent, messy and emotionally exacting in a way that feels unusually unvarnished.
In our cover feature, we talk to Noah Wyle to find out what makes The Pitt cut through, and why it's striking such a chord with those who know the job best. It's proof, if any were needed, that realism, done well, can be every bit as gripping as spectacle.
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Also in this week's Radio Times:
- Stefan Golaszewski, creator of Mum, discusses the grief, hope and love behind his new drama Babies.
- Meet the couples setting out on a journey from Sicily to Mongolia in the new season of Race Across the World.
- Enid Blyton's enchanting tales of The Magic Faraway Tree are coming to the big screen.
The Pitt season 1 is available on HBO Max in the UK from Thursday 26 March. Season 2 begins on 2 April.
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Shem Law is the brand editor of Radio Times, and the 20th person to hold that esteemed position in over 100 years. He wasn't allowed a television growing up, but over the years he has rather overcompensated for that fact.
