"The Pitt," the latest hit for HBO's proprietary streamer Max is already set to return for a second season. Now, in an interview with Vulture, Casey Bloys, the chairman and CEO of HBO and Max Content, has all but promised that the series will return annually. TV audiences who grew up before the advent of streaming know this is just how the medium used to work, so this is particularly welcome news from Bloys. The executive also spoke to the difficulty of making high-concept, big-budget shows that require a lot of time to craft and perfect ... and how "The Pitt" is just as excellent as those series, yet is made in such a way that it can actually release a season each year without much trouble.

Speaking to Bloys, Vulture's Josef Adalian asked him about each season of "The Pitt" being 15 episodes, which the executive described as a callback to older network procedurals.