Chicago PD Showrunner Matt Olmstead to Step Down After Season 4
Chicago P.D.‘s behind-the-scenes sergeant is taking leave.
Executive producer Matt Olmstead will exit as showrunner of the NBC drama after the current fourth season, our sister site Deadline reports.
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A replacement for Olmstead has not been named yet.
Olmstead joined the #OneChicago franchise after Chicago Fire‘s pilot as EP/showrunner, a position now filled by co-creators Derek Haas and Michael Brandt. Olmstead also has co-creator/EP credits on the spinoffs Chicago Med (now in Season 2) and Chicago Justice, which premiered earlier this month. Prior to his involvement in the Chicago world, Olmstead co-created A&E’s Breakout Kings and worked on Prison Break, Lie to Me and NYPD Blue.
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P.D., along with the other Chicago dramas, has yet to be renewed, but is considered “a sure thing” to come back next season, according to TVLine’s Renewal Scorecard.
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