First look at 911 Season 6!

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First look at 911 Season 6! – WATCH

Chiara Lombatti

October 5, 2022

Fox has renewed 911 for Season 6, after several negotiations, during the network’s upfront slate and it will premiere as part of FOX’s 2022-2023 fall schedule, on Monday, September 19. Let’s take a first exclusive look!

Synopsis

THE 118 RACE TO THE RESCUE WHEN A MECHANICAL FAILURE ON A BLIMP CAUSES HAVOC ON THE SEASON PREMIERE OF “9-1-1” MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, ON FOX

When a blimp suffers mechanical failure and its engine catches fire, Athena and the 118 must rescue victims both inside and outside a packed sports stadium. Bobby and Athena drop off May on her first day of college and discuss honeymoon plans, while Maddie and Chimney go to couple’s therapy in the all-new “Let The Games Begin” Season Six premiere episode of 9-1-1 airing Monday, Sept. 19 (8:00-9:02 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (NIN-601) (TV-14 D, L, S, V)

9-1-1 showrunner previews season 6 drama, including a possible rekindled romance

“Any kind of an accident that happens at an event like that, you’re usually dealing with emergencies on multiple fronts,” the Fox drama’s showrunner, Kristen Reidel, tells EW. “Obviously, there’s the blimp crash itself, but then there’s also the injuries that come from the pandemonium that happens when something crashes into a stadium and people’s first instinct is not always to be calm. There’s a bit of a panic. There’s a mother and daughter who are attending the game who gets swept up in that.”

Unlike previous premieres, Reidel says the season-opening crisis will not play out over multiple episodes this year: “When you’ve already done a tsunami and an earthquake, it’s hard to find a large scale event like that with emergencies we haven’t done before. It becomes a little trickier. We’re always searching, but it felt like for this season that maybe we just wanted to start fresh and in a more traditional 9-1-1 style.”

Reidel says that means having “more fun with the show” and more of a “focus on our core characters,” who we left in season 5 with some big life changes.

Things pick up four months later with progress made but big decisions still looming.

“The time jump is the real time jump that viewers have experienced — we left our people at the end of the spring, and now we’re finding them in the fall. I think we’re starting with people in a pretty good place. Bobby [Peter Krause] and Athena [Angela Bassett] are doing well. They’re preparing for a vacation. Buck [Oliver Stark] has broken up with Taylor [Megan West] and he’s kind of still processing being on his own, but not in a downer way. I think he feels relieved to be single again. Eddie [Ryan Guzman] is in a much healthier place and happy to be back with the 118. Hen [Aisha Hinds] is doing well in her family life, but medical school is becoming a stressor in the rest of her life. And Chimney [Kenneth Choi] and Maddie [Jennifer Love Hewitt] are slowly working their way back to each other.”

“I think in the season finale, [Maddie and Chimney] agreed that they weren’t interested in seeing other people, but they actually weren’t back together. They’re in this kind of odd limbo where they are in each other’s lives, they’re co-parenting, they’re hanging out together, but it has not been romantic,” says Reidel. “I think for both of them, there’s just a little fear of making the first move and having it be either wrong or rebuffed. Maddie has the weight of being the person who left, but Chimney has the weight of being the person who was left. I think that they’ve just both been cautious, maybe overly so. They’re at a crossroads now, where one of them has to take charge if they’re ever going to move forward.”

**Any fun teasers about what to expect on 9-1-1 this season?**

TVLine says they’re hearing that when Buck decides to embark on “a year of possibilities,” he finds himself with a unexpected proposal from an old college roommate and his wife…. (That sounds “fun,” right?)

Episodes

6.01 – Let The Games Begin
6.02 – Crash And Learn
6.03 – Animal Instincts
6.04 – Evil
6.05 – Home Invasion
6.06 – Henren Begins
6.07 – Cursed
6.08 – Pilgrimage
6.09 – Warning Signs

Release Date

New season of Fox drama 911 will premiere Monday September 19 at 8:00 p.m

Production

It was announced that filming for 911 Season 6 will begin on July 11, 2022 in Los Angeles and will wrap on March 18, 2023

Promotional pictures

The first promotional picture for the show’s new season is available – keep following us for more news and we will upload them as soon as they will be released by FOX!

See How ‘9-1-1’ Brought Season 6 Premiere Blimp Disaster to Life

It’s a bird, it’s a plane — it’s an emergency! Season 6 of the audacious first-responder drama opens in the unfriendly skies, with Firehouse 118 racing to stop a Hindenburg-level disaster at an L.A. stadium.

“There’s something iconic about a blimp flying over a sporting event,” says exec producer Kristen Reidel. “But what if the blimp flew into a sporting event? Now that’s 9-1-1.”

We can’t spoil the twist as the out-of-control blimp approaches a Women’s International Soccer match, but co-executive producer Jann Turner, who directs the episode, teases that firefighters Chimney (Kenneth Choi), Eddie (Ryan Guzman), and Buck (Oliver Stark) “scale dizzying heights” to reach the trapped captains. Meanwhile, on the ground, “a stampede has left chaos” for LAPD boss Athena Grant (Angela Bassett) to manage.

Turner’s team used storyboards (below) to plan how they’d bring the nail-biting sequence to life. Parts of a blimp were created to function as the set on location. And about 100 extras were enlisted. With visual effects magic, it’ll look like thousands are in jeopardy.

Showrunner preview

“Any kind of an accident that happens at an event like that, you’re usually dealing with emergencies on multiple fronts,” the Fox drama’s showrunner, Kristen Reidel, tells EW. “Obviously, there’s the blimp crash itself, but then there’s also the injuries that come from the pandemonium that happens when something crashes into a stadium and people’s first instinct is not always to be calm. There’s a bit of a panic. There’s a mother and daughter who are attending the game who gets swept up in that.”

“When you’ve already done a tsunami and an earthquake, it’s hard to find a large scale event like that with emergencies we haven’t done before. It becomes a little trickier. We’re always searching, but it felt like for this season that maybe we just wanted to start fresh and in a more traditional 9-1-1 style.”