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It sounds like Max will be looking for a new position after the 2022-23 season. It’s been revealed that the New Amsterdam series will be ending with its upcoming fifth season of 13 episodes. The NBC show’s fourth season will resume on Tuesday, April 19th.
A medical drama series, the New Amsterdam TV show stars Ryan Eggold, Janet Montgomery, Freema Agyeman, Jocko Sims, and Tyler Labine, with Michelle Forbes, Sandra Mae Frank, Shiva Kalaiselvan, and Chloe Freeman in recurring roles. Doctor Max Goodwin (Eggold) is a caring physician whose goal is to fix a broken medical system and to provide exceptional care to the people who need it most. He inspires (almost) everyone around him, and will stop at nothing to breathe new life into the understaffed, underfunded, and underappreciated New Amsterdam Medical Center. Those working with Goodwin include Dr. Lauren Bloom (Montgomery), the head of the ER; oncologist Dr. Helen Sharpe (Agyeman); cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Floyd Reynolds (Sims); and psychiatrist Dr. Iggy Frome (Labine).
The fourth season of New Amsterdam averages a 0.37 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 3.25 million viewers. Compared to season three, that’s down by 19% in the demo and down by 10% in viewership in the live+same day ratings (including DVR playback through 3:00 AM). The series gains quite a bit in the live+7 day ratings, averaging a 0.73 in the demo with 6.18 million. That’s a gain of 95% and 90%, respectively.
New Amsterdam was renewed for three seasons back in 2020 and the fifth season will complete that order.
“The story of Max Goodwin, and his never-ending commitment to patients at New Amsterdam, has been inspiring,” said Lisa Katz, President, Scripted Programming, NBCUniversal Television & Streaming, according to Deadline. “We’re so grateful to David Schulner, Peter Horton, and our cast and crew for their incredible dedication, talent and collaboration.”
Though New Amsterdam is ending, Eggold has already signed a first-look deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, to develop projects across various platforms.
What do you think? Have you been keeping up with the New Amsterdam TV series? Are you disappointed that there won’t be a sixth season or, is five years a good time to end it?
Seems like the writers just ran out of angst ridden, patient care storylines that haven’t been already beaten to death by Grey’s Anatomy. Then had to resort to mostly Max/Helen romance sequences to satisfy the very vocal shippers who tuned in just to see them. Think it’s actually ending at the right time. They’re all talented actors. They’ll land on their feet.
Shippers always ruin good shows. Showrunners consistently make the mistake of catering to them, and forget about good storytelling.
I’ll miss New Amsterdam, but I am glad it’s been given a season to end on its own terms (so to speak.) NA was always tilting at windmills and I was willing always, to suspend disbelief.
As it is said, all good things must come to an end. They got away from the patient stories and focused on the staff which led to unrealistic story arcs that I feel turned the audience away. Vijay as an insightful, calming presence has been missed. And England was never good option to take. So I will watch Max fight his unbeatable foes and see how they bring it around.
Based on this horrible season, I am not surprised or mad that the show is ending next season with only 13 episodes
NBC . I’m not watching NBC anymore. My shows get cancelled. Like New Amsterdam. NBC sucks.
NBC has cancelled so many shows after one season that were good.
Bluff City Law
Proven Innocent
Bone Finder
The trend is fading. Good news.
I won’t miss this show especially after it took a turn for the worse when Max left and moved to England. Plus so much personal drama rather than medical situations. I got tired of everyone’s drama. It’s a shame it didn’t keep it’s original format. Sometimes that’s what adds to the demise of a show.
I’m very sorry to hear New Amsterdam is ending. I love all the characters. A great cast and I enjoyed each episode. It seems all my favorite shows are ending.
Too bad. It’s a quality show with likable characters.
I’m very saddened by this decision. Every time I fall in love with a show it seems to get canceled. It seems many people enjoy shows with no substance I guess.
I love New Amsterdam. I’m sad it’s going to end next year, with only 13 episodes??? Great cast and writing. Going to miss it.
Seriously?
You can’t blame everything on the pandemic.
A purely woke show is just that and it gets Really Tiring! (Look at S3 E6 “Why Not Yesterday” or E10 “Radical”. YIKES)
Enough is Enough!
To be honest I haven’t watch since season 1. I watch TV as an escape from real life. I don’t need the networks reminding how unfair life is.
I definitely felt season 3 had a real drop, due to the pandemic, it wasn’t a flowing story that S1 and S2 had given us. However that was a true of many series, the writing rooms really suffered.
However, I really felt S4 was back to a far stronger position.
I also felt that Dr. Vijay Kapoor is really missed, the character created a certain something, that I struggle to identify … but it was very noticeable once it was gone.
This show had a good start and a good cast, the trouble arose to me in the writing room…. it seems the storylines we overtaken by overly liberal pro everything do good hippy types who wanted to make every single episode about some cause or another. Been old sad eyes Max and his utterly unrealistic view of how a hospital actually functions, and that twit social worker character, well that was basically the doom of the show. In the midst of a pandemic, who needs to tune in to even greater misery than we see all around us? No one,… Read more »
New Amsterdam was one of my favorite shows, but last season was hurt by some poor plot arcs. I felt the original writers had jumped ship. The whole angle of Max giving up heading the hospital he had worked so hard to save and running off to England just didn’t work, nor did that end of the story while there. The meanwhile-back-at-the-ranch part in N.Y. was very dissatisfying too, although it certainly gave us someone to hate. I think the ratings plummeted because it was not the show they knew and loved, so they tuned out. Who needed the angst… Read more »