Noah Wyle Just Revealed When <em>The Pitt</em> Season 3 Will Take Place

Are you already missing The Pitt? Same. Since the HBO Max drama's season 2 finale debuted a month ago, we've hardly heard any news about the future of PTMC—aside from The Pitt'sseason 3 renewal, of course. Is Noah Wyle really going to make us wait seven months to tell us whether or not he adopted Baby Jane Doe?

Well, maybe. But The Pitt's Emmy-winning star did deliver some news about season 3 at the Warner Bros. Discovery Upfront this Wednesday morning. Per Deadline, Wyle and co-star Katherine LaNasa took the stage to hype the return of the series. “We’re about to start a production on season 3,” Wyle said. “It’s set in early November, just before the holidays, ushering in a whole new set of emergencies and confrontations and complications.”

There you go, folks. While this doesn't give fans clamoring for a night shift season much to go on, we now know that season 3 will once again inflict holiday stress on the PTMC crew. Following season 2’s July 4 fireworks, we can now safely expect deskside conversations that tell us about everybody's holiday plans. Will Whitaker (Gerran Howell) return to Nebraska for Thanksgiving, or will he spend the holidays with his maybe-romance widow from the farm? Will Mel's (Taylor Dearden) sister Becca (Tal Anderson) ditch her for her beau on another holiday?

In all seriousness: The biggest question heading into season 3 is whether or not Robby sought real help during his sabbatical. Will he actually take his heart to heart with Abbot (Shawn Hatosy) seriously? And, on a much lighter note, I must point out that neither seasons 1 nor 2 took place during a Pittsburgh Steelers season. You have to imagine that, like the patient who jammed his arm clutching a baseball, The Pitt's creative team will cook up something gnarly from a Steelers tailgate.

Me? I'm looking forward to the next act of Langdon's (Patrick Ball) recovery journey. “I am very excited for season 3, because it is a story that requires a third act,” the actor told me in February. If Robby and Langdon don't nearly come to blows for the third time, I'll count that as a win for both parties.