CHICAGO MED: Allen MacDonald Teases the Season-Opening Emergency, Fallout From the Ripley Cliffhanger, and the New Doctors

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