{"id":324416,"date":"2026-04-25T17:15:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=324416"},"modified":"2026-04-25T17:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:45:39","slug":"chicago-fire-loses-showrunner-in-surprise-exit-after-solid-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/chicago-fire-loses-showrunner-in-surprise-exit-after-solid-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Fire Loses Showrunner in Surprise Exit After Solid Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Chicago Fire<\/em> goes through one other change with showrunner <strong>Andrea Newman<\/strong> exiting after greater than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Newman, who has worked on the NBC series for its entire 14-season run, is leaving and co-executive producer <strong>Victor Teran<\/strong> is taking on the role. Newman joined <em>Chicago Fire<\/em> after the pilot as co-executive producer before being promoted to executive producer then co-showrunner before becoming sole showrunner in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking at Chicago Fire, with the very best solid and crew within the business, has been the highlight of my profession,\u201d Newman said in an announcement. \u201cLike so many others, I used to be inspired to get into TV writing due to Dick, so what a thrill it\u2019s been to work with him and the amazing Wolf team of Peter Jankowski, Rebecca McGill and Anastasia Puglisi. I\u2019m so grateful to them, Derek Haas and the NBC and Universal execs who&#8217;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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jankowski, meanwhile, released a separate statement, which read, \u201cWe\u2019re sad to say goodbye to Andrea. She\u2019s 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\u2019re 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">TV Shows That Went Through Several Showrunner Changes<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tGeorge Kraychyk \/ \u00a9Hulu \/ Courtesy: Everett Collection Chances are high in case your favorite show felt different over time, a showrunner shift occurred sooner or later behind the scenes. Law &#038; Order: Organized Crime attempted to solidify itself as a successful spinoff of Law &#038; Order: SVU but as an alternative it has continued to make headlines [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>One Chicago<\/em> fans are not any strangers to seeing shakeups inside <em>Chicago Fire, Chicago Med <\/em>and<em> Chicago P.D.<\/em> over time. After there have been some questions on the franchise\u2019s revolving door of solid members, NBC\u2019s president of program planning <strong>Jeff Bader<\/strong> explained why he wasn\u2019t concerned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSolid is available in, solid goes out,\u201d Bader told TVLine in an interview published in July 2024. \u201cIt\u2019s interesting. Because yearly there are solid changes, and each 12 months someone asks the identical query about what\u2019s happening throughout the One Chicago universe. But [those shows] just keep happening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bader identified that every of the Chicago shows have continued to search out success, adding, \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled with how the Chicagos do on Wednesday. We have now no plans on changing anything on that night.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sullivan.jpg?crop=0px%2C137px%2C2000px%2C1131px&#038;resize=400%2C225&#038;quality=40&#038;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Sullivan's Crossing\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sullivan.jpg?quality=40&#038;strip=all\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Most Shocking TV Exits of 2026: From \u2018Grey\u2018s Anatomy\u2018 to \u2018Virgin River\u2018<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tIt is rarely easy to unexpectedly say goodbye to your favorite characters \u2014 and 2026 has featured an influx of shocking departures on our TV screens from Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u00a0to Virgin River. Virgin River fans were surprised when showrunner Patrick Sean Smith confirmed multiple characters were written off the show after season 7. Marco Grazzini addressed [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Newman, meanwhile, teased onscreen shifts ahead of the following season.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You could have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to have quite a lot of turnover,\u201d Newman told TVLine in May 2025. \u201cAnd so much craziness happening within the CFD from the highest, where persons are being cut and moved, and every part\u2019s going to get shaken up next season. There shall be hellos, and there shall be goodbyes. I\u2019ll say that. That\u2019s of course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newman also made it clear that nothing is guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no one secure on this shakeup,\u201d Newman explained to TV Insider that very same month. \u201cSo 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[3395,9472,1475,2202,1590,749,3013],"class_list":["post-324416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-cast","tag-chicago","tag-exit","tag-fire","tag-loses","tag-showrunner","tag-surprise"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324419,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324416\/revisions\/324419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}