Dave Davies

Is that right?

What was it like for you to put on scrubs and a lab coat and get back in a hospital setting again after all those years?

But now you have a beard.

I mean, you were a callow young kid when you started that show and then you were eventually an attending physician.

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.