Chicago Fire goes through one other change with showrunner Andrea Newman exiting after greater than a decade.
Newman, who has worked on the NBC series for its entire 14-season run, is leaving and co-executive producer Victor Teran is taking on the role. Newman joined Chicago Fire after the pilot as co-executive producer before being promoted to executive producer then co-showrunner before becoming sole showrunner in 2023.
“Working at Chicago Fire, with the very best solid and crew within the business, has been the highlight of my profession,” Newman said in an announcement. “Like so many others, I used to be inspired to get into TV writing due to Dick, so what a thrill it’s been to work with him and the amazing Wolf team of Peter Jankowski, Rebecca McGill and Anastasia Puglisi. I’m so grateful to them, Derek Haas and the NBC and Universal execs who’ve been so supportive of the show all along the best way. After 14 years, you actually do turn out to be a family and dealing with this group will at all times feel like home.”
Jankowski, meanwhile, released a separate statement, which read, “We’re sad to say goodbye to Andrea. She’s been at the middle of the center and soul of Chicago Fire for the reason that starting and the show thrived under her watch. We’re grateful for her commitment to the event of the following generation and know the show shall be in great hands with Victor taking the reins.”
One Chicago fans are not any strangers to seeing shakeups inside Chicago Fire, Chicago Med and Chicago P.D. over time. After there have been some questions on the franchise’s revolving door of solid members, NBC’s president of program planning Jeff Bader explained why he wasn’t concerned.
“Solid is available in, solid goes out,” Bader told TVLine in an interview published in July 2024. “It’s interesting. Because yearly there are solid changes, and each 12 months someone asks the identical query about what’s happening throughout the One Chicago universe. But [those shows] just keep happening.”
Bader identified that every of the Chicago shows have continued to search out success, adding, “We’re thrilled with how the Chicagos do on Wednesday. We have now no plans on changing anything on that night.”
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Newman, meanwhile, teased onscreen shifts ahead of the following season.
“We’re going to have quite a lot of turnover,” Newman told TVLine in May 2025. “And so much craziness happening within the CFD from the highest, where persons are being cut and moved, and every part’s going to get shaken up next season. There shall be hellos, and there shall be goodbyes. I’ll say that. That’s of course.”
Newman also made it clear that nothing is guaranteed.
“There’s no one secure on this shakeup,” Newman explained to TV Insider that very same month. “So next season goes to be about how the s*** really hits the fan once that mandate comes down and the way things get shaken up and the way our team can hold together as a family while all this craziness is occurring around them.”