'New Amsterdam' season 2: Release date, plot, cast, trailer and everything you need to know about NBC's medical drama series
Medical drama TV series 'New Amsterdam' has been renewed for another season with NBC. The series has been based on the book by Eric Manheimer, 'Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital' and the first season premiered on September 25, 2018. The series has become very popular for the medic-drama fans all across the globe with an amazing cast.
Release Date
The second season of the series has been renewed to premiere on September 24, 2019.
Plot
The series will continue to draw inspiration from Manheimer’s book in Season 2 as well, but will primarily focus Max’s life after the accident—potentially as a single father. The show is expected to kill his wife off after the accident so as to dig deeper into his character potentially as a single father battling cancer while running the operations of New Amsterdam.
It will also look into the personal lives of the various doctors who put their patients before themselves, be it Lauren, Helen, Floyd, Iggy, or Vijay.
Cast
Ryan Eggold
This charming actor is known for his work in the series '90210' as Ryan Matthews and also as Tom Keen on the NBC crime series 'Blacklist'.
Janet Montgomery
She is an English film and TV actress who is known for her work in Fox's 'Human Targets' second season as Ames, she also has appeared in the 'The Hills Run Red' and 'Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead'. Her other works include the protagonist Marina Garretti in 'Made in Jersey'. Between the years 2014 and 2017, she played the lead of Mary Sibley in the series 'Salem'. She plays the lead role of Lauren Bloom, Head of Emergency Departement on NBC's medic-drama New Amsterdam.
Freema Agyeman
She is an English actress known for her role as Martha Jones in the BBC science fiction series 'Doctor Who'. She also starred as Alesha Philips in 'Law & Order: UK' which is a crime based procedural betweens 2009-2012. Her debut on television was with The CW's teen drama ' The Carrie Diaries' where she plays the role of Larissa Loughlin who is a style editor at Interview Magazine. She has worked in a lot of other television series after this and now currently is part of NBC's 'New Amsterdam' as Doctor Helen Sharpe, Head of Oncology.
Jocko Sims, Tyler Labine, and Anupam Kher
The other cast members include Jocko Sims as Doctor Floyd Reynolds, who is the cardiovascular surgeon and head of the cardiac surgical department, Tyler Labine as Doctor Iggy Frome, the hospital's psychiatrist and head of the psychology department along with well-known Bollywood actor Anupam Kher as Doctor Vijay Kapoor, the head of the neurological department.
Director
David Schulner
He is a producer, writer and director for NBC's New Amsterdam and other series like 'What About Brian' ( 2006) and 'Desperate Housewives' ( 2004). Schulner not only wrote the pilot and some other episodes of the series, but he is also an executive producer along with Peter Horton.
Trailer
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