All good issues should come to an finish. The Resident has been canceled at Fox after six seasons.
Viewers have stated their last goodbye to the docs and nurses at Chasten Memorial Hospital, the community revealed on Thursday, April 6. The collection, which premiered in January 2018, adopted Matt Czuchry as Dr. Conrad Hawkins as he confronted private {and professional} challenges whereas preventing for his affected person’s well being. Bruce Greenwood (Dr. Randolph Bell), Manish Dayal (Dr. Devon Pravesh), Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Dr. AJ Austin), Jane Leeves (Dr. Kit Voss), Jessica Lucas (Dr. Billie Sutton), Anuja Joshi (Leela Devi) and Miles Fowler (Trevor) additionally starred.
Season 6, which completed airing in January, was down 27 % in rankings in its main demographic from 2022 and 69 % from the present’s premiere season, which was comprised of solely 13 episodes. At the time, govt producer Andrew Chapman instructed TV Insider that he seemingly wouldn’t know the present’s destiny till April or May.
“[We] really thought hard about how we would construct storylines that would give closure to the season, but if it had to be a series finale, would give our audience and our fans some closure to the whole series, too,” Chapman defined to the outlet.
In August 2021, information broke that Emily VanCamp — who starred on the collection as Dr. Nic Nevin — was leaving the present after 4 seasons. In the second episode of season 5, Nic suffered a mind damage from a automobile accident that finally took her life. VanCamp, 36, finally returned for the season 5 finale in May 2022 to wrap up her character’s story line.
“Because so much of the season thematically had been about grief and loss and coming to terms with mortality and how Conrad is moving on from his relationship with her and the time jump and being a single dad with Gigi, it felt like the right thing to do,” Chapman defined throughout an interview with ET Canada on the time. “We reached out to her and she was super excited to come back. She had not had a chance to say goodbye to everybody on the show, the crew, all the other actors.”
He continued, “The beginning of the season, we knew that we were going to lose Emily in this season, but we didn’t know when we were going to lose her. We lost her in episode 3 and we really had to scramble, and it didn’t give us the closure of the relationship that we had wanted,” he shared. “We thought we were going to have her for a couple more episodes and it wasn’t anybody’s fault. She had a medical issue and she had to deal with it, and we fully understood. But we really didn’t get to close the loop with her, so to speak.”
The cancellation of The Resident comes days after Fox ordered a brand new medical drama, titled Doc, straight to collection for the 2023-24 season, per Variety. The present will give attention to Dr. Amy Elias, Chief of Internal and Family Medicine on the fictional Westside Hospital in Minneapolis, as she navigates her life after a mind damage erases her reminiscence of the final eight years. She should face an unfamiliar world the place she has no recollection of sufferers she’s handled, colleagues she’s crossed, the soulmate she divorced, the person she now loves and the tragedy that brought about her to push everybody away.
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