Transplant's Final Season To Get XL NBC Premiere In May

Transplant's fourth and final season will air Stateside on NBC, TVLine has confirmed.

In fact, it's getting a supersized kickoff.

TVLine has double-secret officially confirmed that the Canadian medical drama's 10-episode farewell run will premiere on NBC Thursday, May 22 at 8/7c. But what you may not know is that NBC will broadcast the first two episodes that night, followed by weekly releases every Thursday at 8. (Episodes will also stream next-day on Peacock.)

Season 4 of Transplant finds Bashir "Bash" Hamed (played by Hamza Haq) on the precipice of finishing his residency at York Memorial. His future uncertain once again, Bash and his sister Amira (Sirena Gulamgaus) are Canadian citizens now, but still trying, with everything they have, to build a life in their adopted country.

Coming off the dramatic conclusion to Season 3 (which aired on NBC way back in February 2024), the team at York Memorial continue to face big, emotional questions about who they are and where they belong.

The cast also includes Laurence Leboeuf, Ayisha Issa, Jim Watson, Rekha Sharma, Torri Higginson, Kenny Wong, Sugith Varughese and Gord Rand.

Season 3 of Transplant on NBC mustered 2.7 million weekly viewers and a 0.2 demo rating (with Live+7 playback) — nearly matching the (ill-fated) NBC original Quantum Leap in total audience.

But up in the Great White North, Transplant routinely ranked as a Top 20 series on CTV, and was the most-watched Canadian drama series each broadcast year. The final season already aired in Canada, from Oct. 6, 2023 through Jan. 19, 2024.

When TVLine almost a year ago sought a prognosis for Transplant Season 4 airing Stateside, Jeff Bader, president of program planning strategy for NBCUniversal Entertainment, told me, "it is in our inventory, we have it.... It's just a matter of when we need it and where we schedule it."