https://deadline.com/2020/03/new-amsterdam-flu-pandemic-episode-shelved-pulled-nbc-season-2-finale-date-creator-david-schulner-essay-explains-ryan-eggold-daniel-dae-kim-1202892215/

The April 7 episode originally titled “Pandemic” and later renamed “Our Doors Are Always Open” has been yanked amid the real-world coronavirus pandemic, which affected New Amsterdam guest-star Daniel Dae Kim. “The world needs a lot less fiction right now, and a lot more facts,” creator David Schulner writes in a Deadline essay of his medical drama, which films in New York City, the epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak. Schulner adds: “Sometimes, what the mirror reflects back is too horrifying to look at."

Why You Won't See "New Amsterdam's" 'Lost' Influenza Outbreak Episode
by Vlada Gelman
March 6, 2021


A year later, "New Amsterdam" series creator David Schulner and executive producer/director Peter Horton tell TVLine that the “lost” hour won’t make it to TV.

“It’s a great episode. I hate that we can’t show it,” Horton laments, adding that the coronavirus pandemic is “so loud and huge that I just don’t see a justification for doing some sort of story about another outbreak. Nothing’s going to compare to what we’ve all been through and what we’ve already shown. So it’s not going to air.”




Instead, the EPs chose to “cannibalize [the episode] and make it part of Season 3” by using some of the footage in this week’s season opener, Horton shares.

“In that [Season 2] episode, Kapoor caught the influenza virus, and [having the character contract COVID] gave us an opportunity to use this footage that we shot, some of it in our large Bellevue atrium that we obviously can’t shoot at anymore,” Schulner explained in TVLine’s premiere post mortem.

Plus, “we even used some of the footage for Iggy because it was so good,” Horton adds.

https://tvline.com/2021/03/06/new-amsterdam-season-2-flu-pandemic-lost-episode-not-airing/