NBC Orders Medical Drama ‘New Amsterdam’

NBC has announced its first new series pick-up for the 2018-19 TV season: medical drama “New Amsterdam” from sister studio Universal TV. The logline: Inspired by Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in America, the series follows Dr. Max Goodwin, the institution’s newest medical director who sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care. How can he help? Well, the doctors and staff have heard this before. Not taking “no” for an answer, Dr. Goodwin must disrupt the status quo and prove he will stop at nothing to breathe new life into this understaffed, underfunded and underappreciated hospital — the only one in the world capable of treating Ebola patients, prisoners from Rikers and the President of the United States under one roof — and return it to the glory that put it on the map.

The cast includes Ryan Eggold, Freema Agyeman, Janet Montgomery, Jocko Sims, Anupam Kher and Tyler Labine.

David Schulner will write and executive produce. Kate Dennis will direct and executive produce the pilot. Peter Horton also executive produce. Dr. Eric Manheimer will produce. “New Amsterdam” is produced by Universal Television, Pico Creek Productions and Mount Moriah.

If the title “New Amsterdam” sounds familiar, it was previously used for a short-lived science fiction themed drama on Fox in 2008.