NBC Picks Up NEW AMSTERDAM For Full Season

NBC has picked up "New Amsterdam" for a full season, according to Variety.

NBC ordered an additional 9 episodes of the series - the first freshman show this season to receive a full season pick up. "New Amsterdam" stars Ryan Eggold, Freema Agyeman, Janet Montgomery, Jocko Sims, Anupam Kher and Tyler Labine.

Lisa Katz and Tracey Pakosta, co-presidents of scripted programming for NBC Entertainment spoke of the pick up saying, "It's thrilling to come out of the gate this season with a series that has resonated so well with audiences. The show hits the sweet spot of the NBC brand - positivity, emotion and incredible storytelling. A huge thank you to our fantastic cast, executive producers, Universal Television and everyone who has worked so hard in getting the show off to such a terrific start."

Inspired by the oldest public hospital in America, this unique medical drama follows the brilliant and charming Dr. Max Goodwin, the institution's newest medical director who sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care. How can he help? Well, the doctors and staff have heard this before. Not taking "no" for an answer, Dr. Goodwin must disrupt the status quo and prove he will stop at nothing to breathe new life into this understaffed, underfunded and underappreciated hospital - the only one in the world capable of treating EBOLA patients, prisoners from Rikers and the President of the United States under one roof - and return it to the GLORY that put it on the map.

"New Amsterdam" is inspired by Dr. Eric Manheimer's memoir "Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital" and his fifteen years as Medical Director at the hospital.

Read the original article on Variety.

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