NBC‘s freshman series St. Denis Medical has been renewed for a second season ahead of tonight’s midseason premiere.
Set at an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital, the mockumentary-style comedy follows the dedicated doctors and nurses who try their best to treat patients while maintaining their own sanity.
Wendi McLendon-Covey, David Alan Grier, Allison Tolman, Josh Lawson, Kahyun Kim, Mekki Leeper and Kaliko Kauahi star in the series created by Superstore and American Auto‘s Eric Ledgin and Justin Spitzer.
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The series airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT following a lead-in from Night Court, currently in its third season, and streams the next day on Peacock.
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St. Denis Medical is NBC’s top new show of the broadcast season in the 18-49 demo, per seven-day viewing numbers from the network. Following its premiere November 12, NBC touted the first episode saw an 85% audience growth across seven days. The second episode retained 82%, or roughly 3.3 million, of the premiere’s L+SD audience. NBC ordered five new episodes for Season 1 in June.
Alongside showrunner Ledgin and Spitzer, Simon Heuer, Ruben Fleischer, Bridget Kyle and Vicky Luu also executive produce. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Spitzer Holding Company are producers.
The networks should renew their sitcoms quickly for next season, and add a few more. Sitcoms all seem to be taped in Los Angeles, so it should keep Hollywood going through the recovery.
I appear not to agree with the first two commenters.
Helpful input. Appreciate it!
Its just a variation of the office (super store, american auto)
It will last 4-5 more seasons
What a relief! Fr one of the best new sitcoms in a while, I can’t believe how into it I am after only 6 episodes. I was a little skeptical at first because I was a HYOOGE Scrubs fans as a kid but this is totally different and not even going for that. Josh Lawson should be a household name.