One Chicago has become the franchise to look at when it comes to crossovers done right, whether it’s one character or all three shows teaming up for a major event. No one does it better. (Having Med, Fire, and P.D. air back-to-back-to-back on Wednesdays does help.) However, we might not get that this season, according to Chicago Med executive producers Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
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Small crossovers will be happening, but the bigger question is whether a major three-way one is in the cards. “I think shortened seasons make it trickier,” Chicago Fire showrunner Andrea Newman notes, “and we all had to jump so fast, like out of a cannon, at the beginning because we were airing so quickly, too. But now that we’re all kind of getting our footing and coming up for air, there’s definitely talk of that. There’s always a chance of a crossover — potentially a bigger one, and then we will cross over characters. We have [Chicago P.D.’s] Trudy in one already.”
Frolov is “sure” they’ll have those smaller crossovers, with characters coming over from Chicago Fire and P.D.
“as far as a big crossover, it’s being talked about, but it’s difficult because each show is in a different dramatic place in a way that characters are involved in their stories,” she explains to TV Insider. “So it just becomes, when is it appropriate for one character to cross over into another?”
Plus, all three shows have shorter seasons this year, due to the late start of production after the writers’ and actors’ strikes over the summer into the fall. “And the production schedule is shortened, so it’s harder to schedule the actors in, but it’s something we always try to do,” says Schneider.
Based on a recent Instagram post by Marina Squierciati, however, there’s going to be a lot more drama than expected on Chicago PD. The actress, who plays Kim Burgess, teased a crossover event between Chicago PD and Chicago Med in the upcoming season.
“First day back and I came to the wrong show”, she wrote in the caption. “Whoops.” The photo sees Squierciati posing with Med cast members S. Epatha Merkerson and Nick Gehlfuss, who play Dr. Goodwin and Halstead, respectively. To make matters even more exciting, the actress tagged the photo with the hashtags “crossover” and “we’re back.”
“If Dick Wolf has his way, the chances are 100 percent, but we haven’t actually [solved] the medical restrictions that we need to to have that many cast members interacting with other shows’ cast members.”
Taylor Kinney teases crossover scene with Chicago PD
Chicago Fire star Taylor Kinney recently sat down for an interview with NBC, where he alluded to a Chicago PD character he’d love to reunite with, in particular: Trudy Platt (Amy Morton). He recalled the classic interaction their characters had the first time they crossed paths.
“One of the first interactions that Severide had with Platt was, he was at the police station, and she said if they went out, she’d break him like a stick”, Kinney recalled. The actor then went on to say that he’d like to see the two cross paths again, even if it’s to jokingly rib each other. “I would like to see what that would look like”, he added.
Is there any hope for a slightly bigger crossover this season on Chicago Fire/P.D./Med?
A big three-way crossover is still a challenge to orchestrate with COVID protocols, but “it’s a possibility,” co-showrunner Andrea Newman says. In the meantime, it sounds like we’ll be getting more mini crossovers: “There’ll be some fun stuff not only with our show, but in the #OneChicago universe with Violet’s family this year,” Newman reveals.
Covid challenged the crossover episodes in the One Chicago world, but there is one storyline in particular the producers are “dying” to do!
Chicago Fire EP Andrea Newman admitted, “This year the COVID thing has made them really tricky because of all the protocols, so I think that threw us off a bit this year.” But they have something MAJOR in mind.
“I’ve been dying to do the burning hospital for a long time,” Newman added. “There are all these protocols for when a hospital is on fire and things that have to happen. We’ve been wanting to do that one and loop P.D. into that but we haven’t had a chance this year.”
Chicago Fire creator Derek Haas added, “For some reason the Chicago Med showrunners don’t like when we keep suggesting we burn down the Chicago Med hospital.”
Already at the beginning of this year the writers of One Chicago Franchising expressed their desire to continue to create storylines between all One Chicago shows, despite the challenge given by Covid-19 pandemic. Derek Haas said it seems that they will continue with their intent: maybe, in 2022 we will have a crossover between Chicago Fire and PD.
Derek Haas and Gwen Sigan are arranging to create a crossover for the One Chicago World in 2022
Back in December, Derek Haas said he was contacted by new Chicago PD showrunner, Gwen Sigan, who has just been hired to replace Rick Eid. The showrunner asked him to create a crossover on episode 18 of this season. Let’s see in detail what he said.
Gwen [Sigan], the new showrunner on Chicago P.D., just emailed me and was like, “Are we doing one of these mini crossovers for Episode 18?” — sometimes we just do it between Fire and P.D. — and I was like, “Oh, let me get back into that.” Because we had always talked about it. So yes, maybe Episode 18 will at least be a Fire–P.D. crossover, but that’s not set in stone.
Derek Haas, Chicago Fire’s showrunner
It seems that nothing is determined yet but the intentions seem to be proactive. Showrunners seem as happy as we are to be able to organize crossovers between Chicago shows.
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“It’s a real showcase and very exciting. When Derek called me [about] Episode 18, I got really, really excited when we were speaking on the phone, and I know that the audience will love it too. It ticks a lot of boxes.” – Derek Haas
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