As the summer comes to an end, fans of beloved network TV shows can look forward to the returns of their favorite series this coming fall. This week, ABC officially announced the premiere dates for the new seasons of the scripted shows that will be airing as part of its Fall 2026 lineup, including R.J. Decker, Scrubs, Abbott Elementary, Grey’s Anatomy, 9-1-1, and 9-1-1: Nashville.
9-1-1 will return for Season 10 on Thursday, October 15, a little over five months after the conclusion of its ninth season. Season 9 of the hit procedural marked a number of major shifts for the show, transitioning 9-1-1 into a new chapter in the wake of Bobby Nash’s (Peter Krause) death the previous season. Now, as 9-1-1 officially moves into the double-digits, Season 10 will mark the beginning of a new era of the series when it premieres this October.
‘9-1-1’ Season 9 Was An Era of Transition for the Extended 118 Family
The central theme of 9-1-1 Season 9 was adjusting to change, and by the end of the season, the extended 118 family have all settled in for the beginning of the next chapters of their lives. Chimney (Kenneth Choi) is finally comfortable in his role as Captain of the 118, and he’s figured out how to balance his new position with his personal relationships. Harry (Elijah M. Cooper) is now officially a member of the 118, and he’s gone through the basic growing pains that come with being a rookie. Ravi (Anirudh Pisharody) has continued to become more vital to the 118, and Hen (Aisha Hinds) is now back at work after taking some time off due to her chronic illness.
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Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In?
The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs
Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
🚨The Pitt
🏥ER
💉Grey’s
🔬House
🩺Scrubs
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01
A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct?
Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.
AStay completely present — block everything else out and work through it step by step, right now.
BTriage fast and delegate — get the right people on the right problems immediately.
CTrust my gut and move — I work best when I stop overthinking and just act.
DAsk the question everyone else is ignoring — what’s the thing that doesn’t fit?
ETake a breath, make a joke to cut the tension, and then get to work — panic helps no one.
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02
Why did you go into medicine in the first place?
The honest answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.
ABecause I wanted to be where it matters most — right at the edge, when someone’s life is actually on the line.
BBecause I wanted to help people — genuinely, one patient at a time, in a system that makes it hard.
CBecause I was drawn to the intensity of it — the stakes, the drama, the feeling of being fully alive.
DBecause medicine is the most interesting puzzle there is — and I needed a problem worth solving.
EBecause I wanted to make a difference — and also, honestly, I didn’t know what else to do with my life.
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03
What do you actually want from the people you work with?
Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.
ACompetence and calm — I need people who don’t fall apart when things get bad.
BTrust and reliability — I want to know that when I pass something off, it’s handled.
CConnection — I want colleagues who become family, even if that gets complicated.
DIntelligence and the willingness to be challenged — I have no interest in people who just agree with me.
EFriendship — people I actually like spending twelve hours a day with, because those hours are going to happen either way.
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04
You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it?
Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.
AI carry it. All of it. I don’t look for ways to put it down — that weight is part of doing this work honestly.
BI process it and move — you have to, or the next patient suffers for the one you just lost.
CI feel it deeply and lean on the people around me — I don’t think you’re supposed to handle that alone.
DI go back over every decision — not to punish myself, but because I need to understand what I missed.
EI grieve it genuinely, find some way to laugh about something unrelated, and try to be kind to myself — imperfectly.
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05
How would your colleagues describe the way you work?
Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.
AIntense and completely present — no small talk during a shift, but exactly who you want there.
BSteady and dependable — not the flashiest in the room but never the one who drops something.
CPassionate and occasionally chaotic — brilliant on the hard cases, prone to drama everywhere else.
DBrilliant and difficult — right more often than anyone else, and everyone knows it, including me.
EWarm and self-deprecating — not the most intimidating presence, but genuinely good at this and easy to like.
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06
How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure?
Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
AProtocol is the floor, not the ceiling — I follow it until the patient needs something it can’t provide.
BI respect it — the system is broken in places, but the structure is there for a reason and I work within it.
CI follow it until my instincts tell me not to — and my instincts are usually right, even when they cause problems.
DRules are for people who haven’t thought hard enough about when to break them.
EI try to follow it and mostly do — with a few memorable exceptions that still come up in meetings.
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07
What does this job cost you personally?
Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?
AEverything outside these walls — I’ve given this job my full attention and the rest of my life has gone around it.
BMy idealism, mostly — I came in believing the system could be fixed and I’ve made a complicated peace with that.
CStability — my personal life has been as chaotic as the OR, and that’s not entirely a coincidence.
DMy relationships — I am not easy to know, and the people who’ve tried to would probably agree.
EMy sense of gravity — I use humour as a coping mechanism, which not everyone appreciates in a hospital.
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08
At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back?
The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.
AThe fact that it’s real — that nothing else I could be doing would matter this much, right now, today.
BThe patients — individual human beings who needed something and got it because I was there.
CThe people I work with — I have walked through impossible things with these people and I’d do it again.
DThe next unsolved case — there’s always another puzzle, and I’m not done yet.
EBecause despite everything — the exhaustion, the loss, the absurdity — I actually love this job.
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Your Assignment Has Been Made
You Belong In…
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
The Pitt
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.
County General Hospital, Chicago
ER
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.
You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle
Grey’s Anatomy
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ
House
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.
Sacred Heart Hospital, California
Scrubs
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.
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Meanwhile, Buck (Oliver Stark) is now fostering Theo (Lincoln and Theodore Sykes), the child that he biologically fathered for Connor (Colin McCalla) and Kameron (Chelsea Kane) four years before their deaths. Eddie (Ryan Guzman) just survived another near-death experience. Athena (Angela Bassett) has come to terms with her grief and moved on to a new chapter in her career, leaving her job as a sergeant to become a detective. Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) had to adjust to a sudden promotion at work and all that it entailed. May (Corinne Massiah) decided to become a nurse after considering different career options going forward. Now, Season 10 will see how all of these changes come into play, and it will mark the next step forward in this new era for the show.
‘9-1-1’ Season 10 Will Mark a New Chapter for the 118
Eddie, Hen, Buck, and Ravi giving Chimney a gift in 9-1-1 Season 9Image via ABC
Chimney, Athena, and Maddie looking through the dispatch computer in 9-1-1 Season 9 Episode 13Image via ABC
Buck, Eddie, and Hen on duty together in 9-1-1 Season 9Image via ABC
Buck and Eddie sweeping the floor of the fire station together in 9-1-1 Season 9Image via ABC
Ravi, Chimney, May, Eddie, and Harry talking at the firehouse in 9-1-1 Season 9 Episode 11Image via ABCClose
Eddie, Hen, Buck, and Ravi giving Chimney a gift in 9-1-1 Season 9Image via ABC
Chimney, Athena, and Maddie looking through the dispatch computer in 9-1-1 Season 9 Episode 13Image via ABC
Buck, Eddie, and Hen on duty together in 9-1-1 Season 9Image via ABC
Buck and Eddie sweeping the floor of the fire station together in 9-1-1 Season 9Image via ABC
Ravi, Chimney, May, Eddie, and Harry talking at the firehouse in 9-1-1 Season 9 Episode 11Image via ABC
Season 9 of 9-1-1 started to bring May, Harry, and Ravi into the fold more, and it is likely that Season 10 will continue with this shift. At this point, Ravi and Harry are integral to the core unit of the 118, and May’s job as a nurse will likely factor into a number of emergencies this coming season. After a season of transition, 9-1-1 Season 9 has the opportunity to continue to give these three characters more focus, as well as to continue to give attention to their dynamics with the other characters. Last season, it was great to see Buck serve as a mentor to Harry, and to see more of Ravi’s friendship with Buck. Now, 9-1-1 still has plenty of untapped dynamics to explore with these characters. Maddie used to work as a nurse before she was a dispatcher, so it would make sense for her to act as a mentor to May next season. Eddie and Hen also work closely with Ravi and Harry, so it would be nice to see their dynamics with these characters, in addition to Buck’s.
When 9-1-1 returns alongside the rest of ABC’s fall lineup this October, it will kick off with the show’s annual tradition of its large-scale opening emergency. When the season settles into its new normal, though, 9-1-1 will have the chance to embrace this new era for the 118. This could look like the show leaning into the new storylines that will come with Athena working as a detective and May working as a nurse. This will also give 9-1-1 the chance to lean back into the found family aspect of the show that it has been rebuilding since the loss of Bobby. Whatever happens, 9-1-1 is officially set to return in less than three months, and it will be interesting to see how last season’s changes are implemented moving forward.
9-1-1 will return to ABC on Thursday, October 15 at 8:00 P.M. EST. In the meantime, it is available to stream on Hulu.