Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med are the most recent exhibits to be impacted by the coronavirus outbreak. In response to Deadline, all three Dick Wolf collection are reducing their seasons early after manufacturing was shut down on March 12.
The Chicago Med episode “A Needle within the Coronary heart,” airing Wednesday, April 15 at 8/7c on NBC will now function the Season 5 finale. In the meantime, Chicago Hearth will finish Season Eight with the episode “51’s Authentic Bell,” airing April Eight at 9/8c, whereas Chicago P.D.’s “Silence of the Night time,” set to air April Eight at 10/9c, will shut out Season 7.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit can even wrap early, with Season 21 now scheduled to finish on April 23.
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With questions nonetheless looming about what’s going to occur to the episodes that stay in limbo, Chicago Hearth showrunner Derek Haas hinted that if leftover episodes of the firehouse drama’s present season had been to be integrated into subsequent season, they is perhaps retooled to mirror present occasions.
“I actually do not know what we’ll do… I just like the storylines we had been going to write down to construct as much as a finale, however we will not simply shoot the scripts/outlines as we had them as a result of the world could have modified and we’ll need to mirror that,” Has said in response to a fan query throughout his weekly Twitter Q&A.
One Chicago is amongst a rising record of exhibits whose seasons have been impacted by the coronavirus outbreak. Grey’s Anatomy, The Resident and FBI have all cut their seasons short, whereas The Walking Dead pushed its Season 10 finale to someday later this 12 months.
The silver lining right here is that Chicago Hearth, Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med have all been renewed for three additional seasons.
Chicago Med‘s finale airs Wednesday, April Eight at 8/7c on NBC, adopted by Chicago Hearth‘s finale at 9/8c and Chicago P.D.‘s finale at 10/9c. In the meantime, Regulation & Order: SVU will air its finale Thursday, April 23 at 10/9c.
Taylor Kinney and Dominic Rains, Chicago Med