After a five-year sabbatical, NBC‘s #OneChicago franchise is staging an epic three-show mashup.
TVLine has learned exclusively that Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med are plotting a one-night crossover event, to air later this season. According to sources, the storyline centers on a massive explosion in an office building that upends the entire city (above and below ground).
The Dick Wolf-produced procedurals would regularly engineer large-scale crossovers, at least until COVID hit. The restrictions brought on by the pandemic made crossovers logistically untenable. The subsequent WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes — which resulted in truncated seasons for all three shows — further complicated the situation.
“Shortened seasons make it trickier,” Fire showrunner Andrea Newman acknowledged to TVLine last season, adding that once the strikes ended “we all had to jump… out of a cannon because we were airing so quickly. But now that we’re all kind of getting our footing and coming up for air, there’s definitely talk of [doing another big one].”
The last three-show #OneChicago crossover event — which presciently involved a bacteria outbreak — aired in Oct. 2019, four months before COVID brought the entertainment industry to a standstill.
An NBC rep declined to comment for this story.
