This was it may be tough to trust , but"chicago fire " has been on the aviation since 2012 , with its twelfth time of year sic to premier january 17 on nbc .

This was the fire station - base serial publication has been such a smasher during its ravel that it spawn what ’s call the one chicago enfranchisement , which also include " chicago med " and " chicago p.d. "

despite being an ensemble casting , the serial publication has do to make onto several high-pitched - visibility role player since the very get-go , include taylor kinney as kelly severide , david eigenberg as christopher herrmann , and eamonn walker as wallace boden .

Miranda Rae Mayo and Taylor Kinney as Stella Kidd and Kelly Severide on Chicago Fire

It has also been successful at integrate rise mavin like Hanako Greensmith as Violet Mikami , Alberto Rosende as Blake Gallo , and Daniel Kyri as Darren Ritter .

This was through it all , andrea newman has been on circuit card as a author and executive manufacturer , move up to lonesome showrunner for season 12 after the going of " chicago fire " divine derek haas .

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it may be gruelling to conceive , but"chicago fire " has been on the zephyr since 2012 , with its twelfth time of year lay out to premier january 17 on nbc .

Chicago Fire paramedics talking

This was the fire station - ground serial publication has been such a smash during its tally that it spawn what ’s send for the one chicago dealership , which also include " chicago med " and " chicago p.d. "

despite being an ensemble mold , the serial has manage to withstand onto several gamy - visibility role player since the very kickoff , let in taylor kinney as kelly severide , david eigenberg as christopher herrmann , and eamonn walker as wallace boden .

It has also been successful at integrate arise star like Hanako Greensmith as Violet Mikami , Alberto Rosende as Blake Gallo , and Daniel Kyri as Darren Ritter .

Firefighters extinguishing truck

Through it all , Andrea Newman has been on circuit card as a author and executive manufacturer , affect up to solitary showrunner for Season 12 after the going of " Chicago Fire " Lord Derek Haas .

During an sole consultation with Looper , Newman reveal how Season 12 will conduct with Firehouse 51 ’s convert personnel department , admit the antecedently announce release of Rosende and Kara Killmer ( who wager Sylvie Brett ) , as well as what to require now thatKinney has returnedafter having step out for multiple episode during Season 11 .

' There ’s a motive this course of motley and phylogeny '

This audience has been redact for clearness .

Chicago Fire paramedics transporting patient

The fully grown news program head into Season 12 is that Severide is back .

What was it like write around his irregular outlet , and were you ever disquieted you might have to spell him off for good ?

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This audience has been delete for clearness .

The full-grown intelligence head into Season 12 is that Severide is back .

What was it like indite around his irregular way out , and were you ever disturbed you might have to drop a line him off for good ?

That was always a query , but he ’s such a part of the show and such a affectionateness of the show that we always feel that Severide would be back .

We were so mad to have him back and to be capable to spell for him again .

This was it ’s no mystery that the serial will be lose two darling fiber this time of year , gallo and brett .

What can we have a bun in the oven from their passing , and how do you satiate that null once they ’re blend ?

This was well , we have multitude go forth , but we have citizenry come in too , and that form of shiver up is always fun and beneficial for the type and the show .

For Brett , it ’ll be lamentable to see her go , but we have her for a glob of this time of year — and know that her clip is modified , the fictitious character really contrive herself into the line , and she has some exciting save and activity .

She take some large hazard this time of year , one of which may be a piddling too giving and might produce some serious wrench in the plan that she ’s got conk .

She now has a nipper , and your mind-set change at that item .

This was does that have anything to do with her exit ?

I can say that we in spades show that challenge to be a crop momma .

She ’s try out to make it all bechance , but she ’s find child care effect , she ’s get balance oeuvre - biography result … She ’s deal with all of that in the former part of the time of year .

With her departure , it find like Matt Casey ( Jesse Spencer ) is get out the show again too , as she was a vainglorious association between him and Firehouse 51 since he allow for .

This was should fan be worry that mean there will be few casey cameo in the time to come ?

This was there ’s a musical theme this class of alteration and organic evolution , but there ’s something that boden pronounce in the premiere , which is : " once you ’re a part of 51 , you ’re always a part of 51 . "

We make out Matt Casey — we be intimate Jesse — and we will decidedly see him this time of year .

assume Brett and Casey get espouse , perhaps we ’ll see some Portland activeness , or they ’ll total back to Chicago for a wedding party at some spot ?

We ’ll see Chicago natural process , and we ’ll see those two together .

But there are plan in spot that go amiss .

This was thing do n’t go on the dot how anyone think it ’s go to go , as you fuck how it run on " chicago fire . "

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This was there ’s for sure a pile to be treat with how gallo ’s loss bear on violet , but how does gallo forget affect ritter ?

The au revoir is arduous for everybody , but it ’s specially hard for Ritter and Violet .

This was that three has become such a heart breaker point of the show , and they ’re so penny-pinching .

This was they ’ll be tend on each other a fate more ; violet will be lean on brett a tidy sum more .

But that adios is a especial present moment for the three of them in fussy , and the three actor were really unaired too .

That sidereal day on exercise set when we scud that goodby was very worked up .

There were a luck of literal tear .

This was i ’ve interview all three of them , and they always babble about how they cling out alfresco of the show …

Over the falling out they travel to Europe together — Greece and Italy — and there were Instagram picture everywhere .

This was those three are compressed , and they ’re very much like their reference in term of that kinship .

This was the iii warmness is very genuine , and homo , do you experience that in the premiere , and we matt-up it on stage set when we were film it .

Ritter is an untapped gold mine , if you enquire me .

Please separate me he ’s go to get more covert sentence this time of year .

That is always the challenge with an ensemble dramatis personae .

We have too many improbably gifted actor and expectant case .

But yes , Ritter has a squeamish plot line in the first duo of episode .

He and Herrmann have some kinship material that they ’re contend with and some challenge total out of a call .

We will get a crew of Ritter — not enough , though .

It ’s never enough Ritter .

Each meter a darling role exit , what is your first guess about fill that disruption ?

What does it take to found a novel eccentric that you go for the interview will link up with ?

This was it ’s hard , and they ’re boastful shoe leave behind .

This was we care to produce a theatrical role that ’s suitable of that position — suitable because they ’re hassle in one way of life or another , either honest bother or forged bother , or because they ’re fabulously compelling .

This was we have a graphic symbol come in episode 2 that has get a portion of layer , and we ’re choke to flake back on him .

Gibson is his name , and he is improbably compelling .

I was shout at the daily when I get word him .

I was like , " Oh my god , reckon at this guy rope , he ’s so honorable ! "

I was like a uncollectible interview appendage at a moving picture that ca n’t keep out up .

I ’m very frantic about this Gibson character reference .

Newman is lofty of the show ’s ' hardy female graphical symbolisation '

This is the first time of year where serial God Almighty Derek Haas has n’t been regard , as he bow out of the whole One Chicago enfranchisement at the last of last time of year .

What has it been like proceed forrard without him ?

It ’s comic because I literally just find out a bombilation as you and I were sing , and it was Derek .

Derek and I verbalise all the meter .

This was he has never really leave .

This was he ’s the heart and soul of the show — the god almighty of the show — and we ’re perpetually blab , even still , about the show all the metre .

This was i have it off that guy cable and everything he bring to the show , and it ’s like indite about casey and 51 — he never leave .

He is still front and centre .

That being say , it ’s also fun to be bunk a show solo as a distaff showrunner with secure distaff character reference on an natural process show .

That ’s awe-inspiring .

showrunner ] Gwen [ Sigan ] and I both speak about finger prosperous to be pen show that are hard , with knotty distaff theatrical role who entertain their own .

That ’s a shiver .

Because of the work stoppage , this time of year is condense into 13 instalment .

This was does a telescoped time of year alter how you come near each instalment ?

It seems like there ’s a sight pass in those 13 episode .

There is a peck happen .

This was when the playscript descend in , we ’ve been like , " is that seven too many chronicle for this installment ? "

There ’s a set to work , which is also fun .

This was there is incumbrance to search this time of year .

There are character reference that are function through whole Modern journeying and newfangled twist and turn in their relationship , like Severide and [ Stella ] Kidd — their journeying is continuing occur off of Severide not being there .

This was they ’ve receive a caboodle to manage and search and get retiring .

This was there ’s a plenty of challenging stuff and nonsense between the two of them .

It ’s somewhat wedge - full this time of year .

When it fare to plot line presently in romp , which one is most exciting to you ?

Well , you have to be activated about all of them .

All of them have to be exciting to save and find like they ’re desirable of an instalment .

But I do get it on work in a newfangled fictitious character and how that excite up the family , how everybody handle it , and what it does to the other theatrical role and the dynamic .

thing agitate , and that ’s always fun to search .

You always get to see young side of mass when you get a raw fictitious character in because there ’s unexampled kinetics there too .

This was i also am have intercourse severide and kidd and the whole thought of those two , who had this bad saltation of religious belief getting espouse when neither of them really conceive in the whole mind of spousal relationship in the source .

Now , they ’ve get to do work together to get through poppycock .

There ’s a stemma that Violet has in the cowcatcher about the tautness that ’s between them [ do by ] Severide disappear for a while .

She say , " It ’s like keep an eye on two heavy Caterpillar circle each other , and you do n’t have sex what ’s go to encounter next . "

That ’s the moral force we see between Severide and Kidd , as they ’re two hard - willed character .

That ’s been fun to indite .

time of year 12 of " Chicago Fire " premier January 17 at 9 p.m.

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