9-1-1 boss talks bringing Connie Britton back and tackling coronavirus next season

The Hollywood Reporter

With Angela Bassett's help, showrunner and co-creator Tim Minear says he pitched Britton on returning to the Fox drama at the 100th episode party for American Horror Story. "It couldn't have been more simple. Somebody pitched, 'What if the penultimate episode leading into the finale was, for instance, a train derailment?' That was literally the pitch," he said. "And what if Maddie got a phone call from the crash site and the person on the other end seemed to know a lot about what they were calling about? It turned out to be Abby, who was on her way back from Phoenix. So the idea that was pitched was the thing we did." Minear added that it would be hard to ignore the coronavirus crisis as a first responder show, "but on the other hand we do not want the show to become subsumed in it."