According to to Deadline, R. Scott Gemmill (ER), creator and executive producer of The Pitt, gave a preview of what is to be expected from the second season. In a new interview with TVLine, Gemmill expressed how Langdon’s sobriety will be one of the key factors behind the jump ahead, in addition to many other factors that will give characters time to progress.

“I think we will pick up on Langdon’s first day back at work, but it’ll be more than a month,” he explained via TVLine , “The biggest driver of [the Season 2 time jump is Langdon … Nine, basically 10 months later, gives a lot of room for us to have developed a few stories in the interim and catch up with everyone. And with it being Langdon’s first day back, we get to catch up as he catches up with all those people.”

Star of the series Noah Wyle (Donnie Darko) added, “There’s no benefit in coming back quickly, before everybody’s had a chance to have this experience really sink in, and it manifests itself in behaviors that are interesting to watch — that are different or more informed than in Season 1.”

As per Deadline, Gemmill also revealed that the setting of the series will most likely not be venturing too much outside the current environment.

“We talk about it, and then we shy away from it, because I think there’s a beauty to the premise in its simplicity and it’s singularity, and I hate messing with that — at least this early,” he said. “If there’s a Season 12, we’ll do a musical. Right now, we kind of want to stick to what was working for us, but we’re still learning. It’s a process.”

Wyle said via TVLine that while it’s “really nice to earn a peek into these personal lives,” it can often lead to “a slippery slope.” He continued, “We think those moments are so much better earned when they come few and far between, and when they really feel grounded. So, if anything, this year we’re trying to stay ultra disciplined to the model we’ve constructed, and resist the temptation to get a little arty with it — or, you know, just to mess with it.”

The second season of The Pitt is scheduled to air in January 2026 on Max.