{"id":145511,"date":"2025-11-20T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/145511\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:38:08","slug":"george-clooney-is-welcome-to-join-hbo-maxs-the-pitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/145511\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney Is \u201cWelcome\u201d To Join HBO Max\u2019s \u2018The Pitt\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/george-clooney\/\" id=\"auto-tag_george-clooney\" data-tag=\"george-clooney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Clooney<\/a> recently teased that he\u2019d join his former colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/noah-wyle\/\" id=\"auto-tag_noah-wyle\" data-tag=\"noah-wyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Wyle<\/a>\u2019s latest medical drama series <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-pitt\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-pitt\" data-tag=\"the-pitt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Pitt<\/a> \u201cin a heartbeat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tClooney and Wyle starred together on NBC medical drama ER for a number of years and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a> Max is preparing to launch the second season of The Pitt in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHBO boss Casey Bloys admitted that he would be happy for a reunion to happen. Speaking at a press presentation in New York, Bloys admitted that he saw Clooney\u2019s comments but wasn\u2019t sure if there\u2019s been any formal conversations inviting Clooney to the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cSure, he\u2019s welcome,\u201d Bloys said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if that was a real conversation or not, but sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tClooney told Entertainment Tonight, while promoting his latest Netflix movie Jay Kelly, \u201cI\u2019d do [The Pitt] in a heartbeat.\u201d But the Good Luck, and Good Night star admitted that he\u2019d not actually spoken to Wyle about appearing. \u201cIt is his show. I don\u2019t want to interrupt. But I am deeply proud of him, if I\u2019m allowed to be proud of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIt was Clooney\u2019s latest comments praising the 15-part series, which was created by R. Scott Gemmill and exec produced by Wyle and ER exec producer John Wells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSpeaking on Late Night with Seth Meyers in June, Clooney said he and Wyle have \u201cbeen really dear friends since we did the pilot [for\u00a0ER]. \u201cHe is just the most honorable, talented young man. I get to say [that] because I\u2019m an old man and I cannot be happier for his success on the show. The show is just a beautiful show, and he does just a great job with it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Clooney recently teased that he\u2019d join his former colleague Noah Wyle\u2019s latest medical drama series The Pitt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,15183,2592,3484,111,139,18672,69,18673],"class_list":{"0":"post-145511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-george-clooney","11":"tag-hbo","12":"tag-hbo-max","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-noah-wyle","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-the-pitt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}