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Chi-Hards, your favourite Chicago-set exhibits will likely be returning in 2024! Chicago Med is among the many NBC exhibits premiering within the new yr. NBC isn’t losing any time bringing One Chicago night time again to your tv screens.

Chicago Med is getting into its ninth season after a wild season 8. Two beloved medical doctors left the hospital, and now a brand new one is being thrown into the combo in season 9. Hollywood Life has rounded up all the important thing updates about Chicago Med season 9.

Will ‘Chicago Med’ Return in 2024?

Sure, Chicago Med is coming again in 2024. The Chicago Med season 9 premiere date is January 17, 2024. The sequence will air at 8 p.m. ET on NBC, kicking off One Chicago night time on Wednesdays. Episodes will likely be obtainable to stream the subsequent day on Peacock.

Like nearly all of scripted exhibits, Chicago Med’s ninth season was delayed till midseason because of the writers’ and SAG-AFTRA strikes. The brand new seasons of the One Chicago exhibits are anticipated to have shortened seasons of about 13 episodes, in keeping with Deadline.

Who Is Returning to ‘Chicago Med’ for Season 9?

A lot of your favourite Gaffney Chicago Medical Middle staff will likely be returning for Chicago Med season 9. Solid members anticipated to return embrace S. Epatha Merkerson as Sharon Goodwin, Oliver Platt as Dr. Daniel Charles, Marlyne Barrett as Maggie Lockwood, Dominic Rains as Dr. Crockett Marcel, Steven Weber as Dr. Dean Archer, and Jessy Schram as Dr. Hannah Asher.

Blindspot actor Luke Mitchell has joined the solid of Chicago Med season 9 in a recurring function. Whereas the function is simply recurring in the meanwhile, Deadline reported that Luke may develop into a sequence common.

Luke will play Dr. Mitch Ripley, an “Emergency Division physician with a troubled previous who shares a historical past with Dr. Charles.” The character is anticipated to debut within the season 9 premiere.

Why Did Nick Gehlfuss & Brian Tee Depart ‘Chicago Med?’

Season 8 featured the exits of longtime Chicago Med vets Nick Gehlfuss and Brian Tee as Dr. Will Halstead and Dr. Ethan Choi. Will left Chicago within the season 8 finale to stay with Natalie in Seattle. The character had been a sequence common for the reason that present’s premiere in 2015.

“It was a tough determination, however finally, I felt I’d taken Dr. Halstead so far as I can go along with him,” Nick advised Selection. “I feel that comes all the way down to a artistic a part of you, or the power or spirit you could have that you just’re both constructed for a really very long time with one particular person or not. I’m drawn to the career for the range in it, and eight years is a very long time. It’s two school levels! I’m joking now that I mainly have a doctorate in tv.”

Fortunately, Nick isn’t ruling out a return to Chicago. “We have been all in settlement on that, fortunately, as I talked with Dick [Wolf] and the writers,” Nick added. “Each time it is sensible once more for essential moments, I’d like to don the white lab coat as soon as once more.”

Earlier within the season, Brian bid farewell to the character he’d performed for the reason that sequence premiere. Ethan left within the season 8 midseason finale to launch a cellular clinic to assist underserved communities within the metropolis with April.

“I feel Choi wished extra,” Brian advised NBC Insider about why Ethan left the hospital. “I feel he wanted to assist the folks he felt wanted him probably the most. I feel he beloved Chicago Med, however he had the next function within the sense of actually making an attempt to heal a metropolis that’s wounded. Particularly within the inside cities, particularly those who, , could also be struggling both financially or situationally.”

He continued, “I feel he [Choi], being from Chicago, has this urgency to need to assist and heal, particularly those who want him probably the most. And I feel that’s why he selected this specific path and why he left Chicago Med.”

Much like Nick, Brian is open to returning to the present sooner or later. “I depart the door all the time open,” Brian stated. “Chicago Med has been an unbelievable expertise and experience for myself personally. And I’ve made some fantastic pals that I maintain close to and pricey to my coronary heart. And going again simply to work—not even being in entrance of the digicam—going again to work, and seeing and dealing with the solid and crew would simply be a pleasure to do.”

Brian has been busy since his Chicago Med exit. He’s starring alongside Nicole Kidman within the Prime Video sequence Expats. The present will premiere on January 26, 2024.

What Will ‘Chicago Med’ Season 9 Be About?

Chicago Med season 9 will doubtless choose proper up from the finale upheaval. Will determined to govern the OR 2.0 system to supply a nasty outcome and ended up resigning. Will and a lot of the medical doctors had been combating to guard the hospital from changing into solely for-profit when Jack Dayton took over. Due to the OR 2.0 system fiasco, Dayton advised Goodwin that he was going to need to promote the hospital.

With Will in Seattle, his absence goes to be felt in season 9. With a brand new physician coming into the combo, count on some feathers to be ruffled. In the meantime, Archer remains to be in want of a kidney donation after his son relapsed.