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This is Fresh Air.

I'm Dave Davies.

Our guest today, Noah Wiley, is an executive producer, writer, and star of the new Mac series The Pit, which gives viewers an inside look at the chaos and drama of a big city hospital emergency room.

Wendell Stone, 52, Chief Rigger from Pitfest, isolated Sean into the left chest when a speaker tower came down on it. Looks like multiple rib fractures. Pulse 110, BP 130 over 85, decent

sets at 96, 50th, fent in the field. Got it? How we doing, Mr. Stone?

Mr. Stone is my dad. It's just stone.

The pit has drawn critical praise for its engaging storylines, intelligent dialogue, and well-drawn characters.

And it's gained a following of real-life emergency room doctors, who praised the accuracy of the show's depiction of medical conditions and treatments.

Noah Wiley is a veteran of stage, screen, and television who's no stranger to lab coats and

hospital scrubs. He played a medical student and then a physician on the hit NBC TV series ER

for most of its 15 seasons, where he earned nominations for three Golden Globe and five

primetime Emmy Awards. He started in the TNT series Falling Skies and the Librarians and

has appeared in many movies. He's also been active in the organization's Human Rights Watch

and Doctors of the World. The pit is now wrapping up its 15-episode run and has been renewed

for a second season. Noah Wiley, welcome to fresh air. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I mentioned in the introduction that your character, maybe I didn't, he's the senior

attending physician in this emergency room. And, you know, in addition to treating patients,

you're really running this big organization, and it's a teaching hospital. So while you're an experience pro, there are all

these others who are less experienced, residents and training and medical students, on their first

day, I believe, in their rotations as this thing begins. So there's a lot going on here.

Tell us just a little bit more about your character, Dr. Robbie.

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