Dave Davies

Now you're a guy with a lot of miles on you.

Right, right.

You know, I should just mention, it's been widely reported that there is some litigation around this.

The estate of Michael Crichton, who was the creator of ER, has sued alleging that The Pit is an unauthorized reboot of the program.

I mean one of the differences between the two shows is that The Pit is the entire 15 episodes are one day in the life of this ER.

There's an hour – essentially in real time, an hour per episode is one hour of the day.

And so you get to see these things develop just over a day.

So that's the real distinction.

You're the lead attending in this emergency room.

And in real life, you're also an executive producer and a writer and an experienced actor among a cast, which includes a lot of, you know, much younger actors.

Were you kind of a coach on the set in the same way you're a medical coach for these people learning the craft?

That's fourth-year residents, second-year residents.

Noah Wiley recorded last year talking about the HBO Max series The Pit.

Its second season premiered last night.

We'll hear more after this short break.

This is Fresh Air.

You know, we listened to a clip earlier that was fantastic.

an intense moment in which a patient is being wheeled in and the staff is immediately getting to work on him.

There are a lot of quieter moments in this series where you are dealing with a patient or a relative and have some tough issues to communicate.

This is one I want to play now where a man and a woman who are a brother and sister, played here by Rebecca Tilney and Mackenzie Astin, are at the hospital with their elderly father who has pneumonia.