Just one day before the premiere of “The Pitt” Season 2 in January, the HBO Max medical drama was renewed for Season 3.
Now, two weeks before the Season 2 finale airs April 16, major cast shakeups for its third outing have been revealed.
Ayesha Harris, who plays night shift’s Dr. Parker Ellis, confirmed Variety’s report April 2 that she has been promoted to a series regular.
“Dr. ELLIS got student loans to pay off, we gotta work a double shift!” Harris captioned a post of the article on Instagram. “Been wanting to share this for a while now.”
She went on to thank her team and closed her message out with, “Cheers to Season 3!”
Harris was introduced as a senior emergency medicine resident at the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center and works on the night shift alongside attendings Dr. Jack Abbot (Shawn Hatosy) and Dr. John Shen (Ken Kirby). In Season 1, she and Shen arrived early for their shift and helped run triage at the hospital in the wake of the PittFest mass shooting.
In Season 2, Ellis has appeared in four episodes so far. While night shift just started in Episode 13, which aired April 2, Ellis was at the hospital to testify at a deposition for a malpractice case alleging a spinal tap she and Dr. Mel King (Taylor Dearden) performed in Season 1 caused “intellectual decline.”
On her Instagram story, Harris hinted that her series regular status might not mean she’s leaving the night shift.
“Dr. Ellis is pulling a double shift next season!! So excited y’all!!” she posted.
In the same report, Variety also said cast regular Supriya Ganesh, who stars as resident Dr. Samira Mohan, will exit ahead of Season 3.
On her social media posts, Harris wrote, “Bittersweet I won’t be working with my girl” and tagged Ganesh’s Instagram.
“To my girl @supriyaganesh_ thank you for being a real one, from day one!” she also wrote in the caption of her announcement post.
Neither Ganesh nor HBO Max has confirmed her exit from the show. Ganesh commented on Harris’ post, “They are so lucky to have you.”
TODAY.com has reached out to reps for HBO Max for comment.
Dr. Samira Mohan has become a fan-favorite character over “The Pitt’s” two seasons. She’s known for her medical prowess, which has frequently sparked praise from night shift attending Abbot,and her holistic and empathetic approach to patient care.
But Mohan has often sparred with attending Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch (Noah Wyle), who criticized her pace with the unflattering nickname “Slow Mo.”
In Season 1, Mohan proved instrumental in caring for patients after the PittFest shooting, and her reluctance to leave the hospital after the worst of the mass casualty response exposed her struggle with work-life balance.
In Season 2, set on the Fourth of July, she tries to balance caring for a patient who tries to refuse care due to insurance concerns with personal stressors from her mom’s decision to get married and sell her house. In Episode 10, Mohan has a panic attack, which Robby later scolds her for.
She’s also encouraged by incoming attending Dr. Al-Hashimi (Sepideh Moafi) to potentially apply for a geriatrics fellowship, which Robby later seconds, saying, “You seem to have a predisposition to the pace.”
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