Chicago Med's new showrunner plans to bring more humor & familiar faces to Season 10

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https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/chi...er-1236154575/

Allen MacDonald, who succeeded longtime showrunners Diane Frolov and Andy Schneider, tells Variety he watched all 176 One Chicago episodes to prepare for the job. "I feel like the show has always been very emotionally based, and that was a beautiful foundation that Andy and Diane had built and kept going for nine seasons," he says. "And I just want to build on top of that, because I love telling stories that are emotional. But I believe that if I’m bringing a unique brand of storytelling to the show, it is to continue the emotion of the characters in their interactions, but I also like bringing humor. I’m not saying the show didn’t have humor before at all. I have always loved drama, and I’ve especially always loved drama with humor sprinkled in there too. And when I say humor, I don’t mean jokes, I mean recognizably human moments that people laugh at because they recognize it in themselves or someone they know. A laugh is an emotional reaction. It’s almost self-protective, because they laugh because it kind of makes them want to cry too.”