NBC’s Chicago Med could have new management heading into its tenth season.
Co-showrunners Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, who’ve been with the drama because it debuted in 2015, are stepping down on the finish of the present’s present run. The married couple have been helmed Med for 9 seasons and greater than 170 episodes thus far. A brand new showrunner shall be named later.
That’s an unusually lengthy tenure for any sequence, not to mention one hailing from Dick Wolf’s Wolf Leisure, which steadily shakes up operations each in entrance of and behind the digicam. Frolov and Schneider got here in forward of Chicago Med’s sequence premiere, taking on for Andrew Dettman. In distinction, Med’s fellow Chicago sequence, Hearth and PD, have modified showrunners a number of occasions over the course of their runs.
“We had been honored to be chosen by Dick Wolf to run Chicago Med and have tremendously loved our affiliation with Wolf Leisure and Common Tv,” Frolov and Schneider mentioned in an announcement. “We love Chicago Med and have devoted all our artistic energies to it, however after 9 seasons we really feel it’s time for us to maneuver on and discover different prospects. We’ve been privileged to work with an awesome writing employees, manufacturing crew and a superb forged of actors. We are going to miss all of them.”
Stated Wolf, “We’re grateful to Diane and Andy for 9 fabulous seasons of Chicago Med. They helped us give NBC a No. 1 bona fide hit for nearly a decade.”
Chicago Med is constantly probably the most watched present in its Wednesday time interval; the present season is averaging about 10.5 million viewers throughout all platforms. The sequence comes from Wolf Leisure and Common Tv; together with Frolov and Schneider, the chief producers are Wolf, Stephen Hootstein, Eli Talbert, Derek Haas, Arthur W. Forney, Matt Olmstead, Michael Brandt and Peter Jankowski.
Frolov and Schneider have labored collectively on sequence together with Northern Publicity, The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire and The Chris Isaak Present and have gained three Emmys. They’re repped by WME.