Noah Wyle on Negotiating With HBO Over ‘The Pitt’ ICE Storyline, Season 3’s Time Jump and Why Paramount Buying Warner Bros. Is ‘Not Good For Labor’
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Noah Wyle on Negotiating With HBO Over ‘The Pitt’ ICE Storyline, Season 3’s Time Jump and Why Paramount Buying Warner Bros. Is ‘Not Good For Labor’
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**Noah Wyle on negotiating with HBO over The Pitt Season 2 ICE storyline:**
> “The negotiation was being driven by political reasons, creative reasons, fear, uncertainty, all sorts of legitimate reasons. I’ll be honest and say that I was concerned about the edits we were making initially.”
> “When I saw what we had done, I actually think we arrived at something more elegant and a little bit more restrained, which leaves a little bit more ambiguity in it than we may have started out with. I think it’s healthier for the storyline in the long run. It ended up being show the bear, don’t poke the bear in a lot of ways, which is enough. Because the context came out after we’d filmed that episode, we didn’t have to do half of what we had done. That had already been imprinted into the mind of most Americans.”
**Noah Wyle on Paramount’s WB Acquisition:**
> “If there’s any concern, it comes from being a three union card holder who works with a lot of different people in this town who are looking at it very simply — fewer streamers, fewer studios, fewer networks, fewer shows, fewer paychecks,” he says. “It’s not good for membership. It might be good for shareholders, but it’s not good for labor, and that’s been an age-old battle.”
**Noah Wyle on ER (1996), ER Cast Appearing on the cover of Newsweek and Healthcare System in America:**
> “I used to tell my agent I would only do movies or plays.” Then he read the two-hour pilot script for “ER,” not realizing it wasn’t a feature, since it was written by novelist Michael Crichton (“Jurassic Park,” “Sphere,” and many other bestsellers).
> “I thought it was a movie, so I auditioned for it. When I found out it was a show, I didn’t really care, because I thought, it’s so good, they’re going to cancel it. There’s no way this is going to last,” he says. “But I kind of turned my nose up at the idea of a television career, which is ironic, because that’s exactly what I’ve enjoyed for the last 30 years. I love what I thought would be constricting. I found I love the consistency, and what I thought would get boring, I’ve managed to find infinite complexity. And instead of having variety, I’ve found family.”
> “It was a big deal at the time because it was ’94 and [Bill] Clinton had newly appointed Hillary to revamp the healthcare industry,” he remembers. “Suddenly, everybody was up in arms, like ‘What does she know about healthcare?’ The headline on the article for Newsweek was: ‘ER,’ a healthcare program that really works.”
> “Sadly, not much has changed”. “Back in those days, we were talking about 40 million Americans going without health insurance, using emergency rooms as the primary source of health care. And here we are, 30 years later, and that number is doubled, almost tripled, and people won’t even go into emergency rooms to seek that health care for a myriad of reasons.”
**Noah Wyle on Season 3 Time Jump:**
> “The only time jump we’re interested in making is to get into a different weather season, to get into a slightly different mode of cases that come with a change in weather. If that was summer, then what happens in the winter when you get cold, snow and black ice.”
Call your congressperson, AG and representative and tell them to oppose the Paramount/WB merger, and explicitly tell them why.
Tell them that This consolidation is bad for consumers. It raises prices, eliminates thousands of jobs, especially working and middle class jobs, lowers competition, and takes away consumer choices.
Tell them to short the stock too before they reject it for an added incentive
Here a list of the congresspeople, lawmakers, and reps of each state around to help
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_representatives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_representatives)
[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/current](https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/current)
[https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/](https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/)
Also make a meme stock out of WB
Love that he pushed for a more “show the bear” approach instead of a lecture. Honestly, biggest thing we can do about the merger is file antitrust comments when regulators open review.
Other than the Clooney jealous thing. Sounds like a solid guy.
I’ll miss this show after Paramount cancels it shortly after the acquisition goes through.
So based on the “different mode of cases that come with a change in weather”/winter statement I am guessing-
Slip and fall/ shoveling injuries
Icicle injury
Frostbite
Someone who isn’t able to afford their utility bill/furnace out, no heat type scenario, or a massive outage
Massive multi-car/semi-truck pile up on highway due to weather and the hospital being overloaded again
I personally enjoyed how they did the ICE storyline. It was apathetic structural violence. It resonated more with me because it felt almost bureaucratic and cold. It was akin to how the Medicare cuts made various patients suffer this season, and the cruel economic calculations other patients had to make.
At the end of the day, ICE isn’t a singular “bad” thing. They put people in camps, but the rest of the state apparatus also lets people die on the streets. It’s all part of the same institutional beast with many heads.