‘New Amsterdam’ Is Ending With Season 5
Even if Dr. Max Goodwin (Ryan Eggold) saves New Amsterdam from the medical director who replaced him when he moved to London, Dr. Veronica Fuentes (Michelle Forbes), we won’t be seeing the hospital’s staff for much longer: The NBC medical drama is coming to an end.
New Amsterdam is ending with the fifth season, to air in 2022-2023, Deadline reports. (It had been renewed for its third, fourth, and fifth seasons in January 2020.) Its 13 episodes will mean the series ends with 92, eight short of the milestone 100.
“The story of Max Goodwin, and his never-ending commitment to patients at New Amsterdam, has been inspiring,” Lisa Katz, President, Scripted Programming, NBCUniversal Television & Streaming, said in a statement. “We’re so grateful to David Schulner, Peter Horton, and our cast and crew for their incredible dedication, talent and collaboration.”
Added Erin Underhill, President, Universal Television, “When I first read the pilot script for New Amsterdam, I knew we had a winner. We cheered Max’s disruption of the status quo and applauded when he asked his patients the simple yet profound question, ‘How can I help?’ Over the last four seasons, David, Peter and our incredible cast have tackled important and thought-provoking stories that have touched on the human condition, but also made us laugh and imbued hope. We’re so proud of this series and are indebted to everyone involved in bringing New Amsterdam to life. Bravo!”
This news comes after 15 episodes of the fourth season, with seven left to air when the series returns on April 19 following The Thing About Pam‘s run. Max may be back in New York trying to save his old hospital, but that’ll be easier said than done and the question still remains what will happen after if he does oust Veronica. After all, he’s building a life in London with his girlfriend, Dr. Helen Sharpe (Freema Agyeman), and his daughter Luna — and he’s planning to propose, as the promo for the drama’s return shows. With the show heading for its end, we have a feeling that Max is going to have to make more than one decision about his future, especially when it comes to where it will take him.
Max is “trying to be in London and New York at the same time and is trying to raise a family and be all in this relationship and come back and save the hospital and do all these things at the same time,” Eggold told TV Insider after the last new episode, on February 22. “Along with his optimism, he’s certainly someone who overcommits, overreaches and tries to do a lot at once.”
With only 20 episodes left in the series, he may have to make some serious changes when it comes to how he lives his life and how much he does try to do. After all, we have to see him settled somewhere when the series finales comes, right?
New Amsterdam, Returns, Tuesday, April 19, 10/9c, NBC
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I was hoping for a return of Max to New Amsterdam permanently. I love him and this show. I’ll be sorry to see it go.
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I think they should have just maintained the story line from the start of the show! Haven’t enjoyed it too much this season!🤷🏽♀️
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I agree
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I agree- I hate the Veronica storyline so much! They would have been better to continue with Max and Helen deciding they had to stay and somehow working Helens need to assist in London into the story!
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The show got weird when Max moved away. We loved all the characters from the hospital and was hoping that he changed his mind and came back. I’m sorry that the show will be canceled. It’s a favorite show for many.
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Why do they have to end best shows. Was so looking forward to watching this long term
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I love this show and will hate to see it go.
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I love this show.Sad it's ending.I will miss it's varied cast of actors.
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While I like the show I think this is a good move. It was getting repetitive
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Agree this season wasn’t nearly as good
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Yeah, this season isn't that good.
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The writers ruined the show in season 4, writing angst for the sake of writing angst. The London story line was a waste after all the story is about Max the medical director improving the healthcare system at New Amsterdam. Helen and Max's relationship should have been a bonus, home run for the show but the writers were more interested in writing angst. The relationship should have been about two people in love with some romance and some challenges people face when they are in a relationship, not an overload of constant angst. It would have been so much better if we could have seen both characters thriving in their work at the hospital and being in a successful relationship.
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I loved this show when it was centered around the hospital and it’s progressive changes. The Doctor’s had lives and were interesting. The Max and Helen show and the demise of the hospital, just sad and boring. Won’t miss it.
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I love this show I don’t understand why they cancel good shows it doesn’t make any sense I really like how they changed the plot this year too bad maybe the executives
Should watch it he show there is so many reality shows it’s nice to have some great writing fiction shows
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Send Max and Helen over to The good Dr. to save their hospital!!
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No. The Good Doctor is great as it is, don't mess with the cast.
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I hate that this show is ending. No! No! No! It is the best show on. I love Max and Helen together. I hope they will end up together and Luna.
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Cancel good shows and leave crap on.
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It is time for it to end IMO
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I feel like I really wanted Max and Helen to get together and waited and waited for it to happen. Now that it has happened, the spark and excitement between them is gone. It doesn't really feel like much of a love story anymore. 🙁
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This is one of THE BEST SHOWS on TV! Why is it being ended in the middle of it's next season? I mean come on... There are a lot of 'crap shows' on regular TV. Why is a show where the characters appear to ACTUALLY CARE about the outcome of their patients medical care get cancelled? I love this show! I hate knowing that it's on its way out.
Most of the shows on regular TV are SO BAD that I spend most of the TV time I do have, watching 'How To' videos on YouTube! I really dislike all the 'reality TV' shows! Hate to see New Amsterdam go...
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So sad to see Amsterdam go. Never will understand why shows that you can actually watch with your children in the room gets canceled "Go figure". We would rather have shows of killings, and language that would make a sailor ashamed than a show with morals and love. And we wonder why our world is so screwed up.
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I love the show, but the storyline changed to much in the 4th season and became lost. I enjoyed the ride while it lasted.
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Why invested in the new show When they're just gonna cancel it might as well just stop watching TV And no matter what you said it's not gonna change the outcome They do what they want They have very little regard so what the Audience wants.
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I think it’s ending at the perfect time. They deviated from the original plan and tried to make things more relationship centred and it didn’t work. And instead of going back to their old formula, they brought in a useless villain who made things bland. I hope the remaining episodes of this season work towards ousting Fuentes and getting Max and Helen back to the US. With the whole team back together l, maybe Season 5 can be cheerful and interesting and end of a highnote.
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If season 1 had 22 eps, 2 had 18eps, 3 had 14 eps and 4 is having 22 eps - how is a 13 eps season 5 bringing the total to 92eps? I count 89 eps
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Common Core Math.
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I totally agree! I wanted to see max and Helen getting married. It would’ve been great to see them together and with Luna. I was waiting for Helen to come up on the roof and have their wedding. What a disappointment and said that Helen won’t be on season five
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One of the best series on tv. It’s a shame we are going into the last season. They are all great actors and I’m really going to miss it. Why is this the end of a good show?
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Amsterdam is one of the great shows on TV. Max and Helen moving to London really didn't fit in to what the show is about. It almost seemed like a breakoff of the series. I know that the world is changing, but as a family show, do we need to have 2 different same sex characters. I do not need to watch two women or two men kissing on the show. This is the times but it doesn't need to be showing the love scenes.
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Not happy they messed up with the storyline had him move to London.
I figured the show would come to an end. A shame because it was a good show.
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Love love Max. Didn’t miss a show. Put Max into another show. Truly love this character. Bring him back to. “The Blacklist” love his character in that show.
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I hate that the show is ending. I TRULY LOVE the show. I loved all the characters especially Max and Helen. I hate it has been canceled.
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Nooo, finally a good show.
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The show got too political…it ruined what started out as a good show.
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This season did it for me. I had to quit watching. I'm sorry it was canceled but I won't miss it.
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Don’t panic yet… It is not ending until another complete season next year!
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