#OneChicago Crossover Promo Puts Three Beloved Characters In Peril
After a five-year sabbatical, the #OneChicago franchise is staging an epic three-show mashup, and several of the Windy City's finest will find themselves in danger during the big event.
As seen in the above promo, Fire's Stella Kidd and P.D.'s Adam Ruzek are both caught underground in a train following a gas explosion, with air running out for them and the many civilians. The perilous situation leaves Kidd's husband, Severide, with worried tears as she fails to answer her radio.
And it's not just Kidd and Ruzek who are in trouble: P.D.'s Platt is also seen collapsing and then crashing at Med as her hubby, Mouch, looks on in concern.
Following TVLine's exclusive report in November 2024, NBC confirmed on Dec. 6 that Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med are plotting a one-night crossover event, set to air on Wednesday, Jan. 29 (at 8/7c).
The full-night event is also switching up the order in which the three shows traditionally air. For one week only, Chicago Fire will air at 8 pm, followed by Chicago Med at 9 pm and Chicago P.D. at 10 pm.
Here's what we can expect from the three-parter, according to NBC: "When a gas explosion rocks a high-rise, Chicago's first responders come out in force to rescue hundreds of civilians. It's the calamity beneath the surface, however, that sends our heroes on a race to save 40 people trapped deep underground, including two of their own."
"Putting together what is essentially a three-hour action movie is an incredibly ambitious task requiring complete coordination across our writers, casts, crews and producers, along with help from the city of Chicago," says #OneChicago co-executive producer Anastasia Puglisi. "We're thrilled to have the best talent in every department to meet this challenge, reinforce the #OneChicago brand, and provide our fans with a unique and compelling viewing experience."
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.