ONE CHICAGO Crossover: Allen MacDonald, Andrea Newman, and Gwen Sigan Preview the Emotional, Action-Packed ‘In The Trenches’
January 27, 2025 by Marisa Roffman
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CHICAGO FIRE — “In The Trenches: Part 1” Episode 13012/13011 — Pictured: (l-r) — (Photo by: Peter Gordon/NBC)
More than five years after the ONE CHICAGO franchise staged a three-show crossover—for 2019’s “Infection”—the NBC dramas are back, united, trying to save Chicago on the Wednesday, January 29 event, “In The Trenches.”
“[There’s a] gas main explosion that destabilizes a huge building and then causes an underground avalanche that traps a subway car,” CHICAGO MED showrunner Allen MacDonald tells Give Me My Remote in the video below. “There’s a lot of people killed, and there are a lot of survivors…[who] survived the initial situation that go to [Gaffney Chicago Medical Center], and that’s where the MED hour lives—in trying to keep those people alive.”
“There’s a bit of question in the three hours if this explosion was an accident or on purpose, and PD[‘s Intelligence] is very much looking into that,” he continues. “And FIRE[‘s Firehouse 51] is trying to get the situation under control because there are people trapped under the surface and want to get them up.”
And, as the promo teased, “A big emotional centerpiece of the MED hour is…[CHICAGO P.D.’s] Trudy Platt’s life is very much on the line,” MacDonald previews.
What else can viewers expect? MacDonald, CHICAGO FIRE showrunner Andrea Newman, and CHICAGO P.D. showrunner Gwen Sigan offer up a few teases… Read more
CHICAGO MED: Allen MacDonald Teases the Season-Opening Emergency, Fallout From the Ripley Cliffhanger, and the New Doctors
September 24, 2024 by Marisa Roffman
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CHICAGO MED — “Sink or Swim” Episode 1001 — Pictured: (l-r) — (Photo by: George Burns Jr/NBC)
When new CHICAGO MED showrunner Allen MacDonald joined the long-running NBC series—ahead of its upcoming tenth season—he took his research very seriously.
“This is a show that, in order to prepare for this job, I sat down and I watched 176 episodes,” MacDonald tells Give Me My Remote. “I had seen some episodes before then, but I really needed to start from scratch. That’s obviously a big job! I just was very taken with the high level of emotional storytelling that the previous showrunners had done for nine seasons. I just felt that that was something that I wanted to build upon with my own kind of storytelling.” Read more
