Code Black just wrapped its third and final season, but is there a chance for more? Recently, creator Michael Seitzman spoke with Deadline about the possible future of the cancelled CBS TV show.
The medical drama unfolds at Angels Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles — the busiest, most notorious ER in the country. The cast includes Marcia Gay Harden, Luis Guzmán, Boris Kodjoe, Harry Ford, Benjamin Hollingsworth, William Allen Young, Emily Tyra, Noah Gray-Cabey, Emily Alyn Lind, Moon Bloodgood, and Rob Lowe.
In the interview, Seitzman said he’s proud of the how Code Black ended:
One of the things I always wanted to explore in the show is the nature of grief. I wanted to be honest about it, face it head on, and really explore how messy it is, how mysterious it is, and how miraculous it is when we finally see some light. The way we dealt with it for all three seasons, with our patients and our doctors, is something I’m very proud of, especially the way we delved into it with Rob Lowe’s Ethan Willis this season, in looking at his PTSD and the way his mind processed his grief and guilt when it came to his brother.”
However, the CBS series creator revealed he did have plans for a fourth season:
There’s an aspect to Ryan McGarry’s documentary, which inspired the show, which I always found interesting. When the staff was moving from the old LA County Medical Center to the new one. It shook them up in a very particular way. In a way, there were ghosts in that old building that they found they needed and those ghosts didn’t exist in the new building. It affected the way they approached their jobs and their patients and they wondered if they could still be as intimate with them in the new building. I always wanted to do that in Code Black, take our staff out of Angels Memorial and see what would happen if we moved them into a new building. Flying a plane into Angels seemed to make that an easy creative transition.”
And what are the chances of a renewal from another network? Seitzman says they’re all still hopeful:
The studio has reached out to all of the streaming services. To be honest, we haven’t heard back from them yet. We’re hopeful.”
What do you think? Are you a fan of Code Black? Would you watch a fourth season?
Please don’t let season 3 be the end of a well written show. You have a fantastic group of actors whose lives you share with each episode! I hope there will be a season 4, there are so many directions this series can go! Love the show, love the actors, love the writers and love the story lines!
Code Black is a show that has quality ideas and acting. It is an adult show that speaks to people who know how to think and appreciate a story line that is way much more intellectual than the majority of the stuff on tv today. Please bring it back!
Code Black is a great and Exhilarating show. Great cast always suspenseful. I hope Netflix’s picks it up like Lucifer which was dumb.
This is an awesome show. My wife and I can’t wait from week to week to see the next episode. Canceling this show is a huge mistake and I hope someone else picks it up.
Please please bring code black back. It is the only show on tv with intelligent, real dialogue and made for an audience that thinks.
Both my husband and myself have enjoyed every time every show etc. am very upset it wasn’t renewed for season 4. We are hoping fingers crossed it gets picked up.
Please don’t let it end. Theres still much to learn and the show is just getting started. Maybe cbs all access.
Love Code Black!! Please bring it back!!
Please bring back Code Black. The acting is so strong, and the characters are complex. The writing and plots are always engrossing and the pace is as fast and compelling as Angels Hospital. This is a truly intelligent medical drama. I miss it alteady. Please find a way to save it!
I love code Black! It will be ashame if there is not a forth season!! Please bring it back!
Yes we would watch this great show on another network.
We LOVE Code Black. It is one of the few, high quality shows on network TV. We would be thrilled to have a season 4 and 5 and so on. Please do what you can to continue airing this awesome shoe.
Please don’t cancel code black…excellent character development and acting is excellent..”
Code Black was an amazing show with awesome stories and characters. Please bring it back
Please bring Code Black back. Why do all the really good shows get cancelled and stupid shows remain on air?