9-1-1 Season 8: What you need to know about Buck, Eddie and the 118

9-1-1 Season 8 is coming and there’s some major drama about to happen around 118.

After being canceled by Fox at the end of the sixth season, 9-1-1 found a home on ABC for season 7. Although the Hollywood strikes gave way to a shortened episode order, the show thrived in its new home and was picked up by the network for season 8 just days after its 100th episode aired in May .

The series, created by Brad Falchuk And Ryan Murphyfollows the first responders of the LAPD and Los Angeles Fire Station 118 as they try to deal with countless ups and downs in both their personal and professional lives.

Season 7 certainly had its fair share of highlights. Evan “Buck” Buckley (Oliver Stark) came out as bisexual, and his sister, Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt), married old love Chimney (Kenneth Choi).

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For other characters, however, Season 7 was filled with murky waters. Chicken (Aisha Hinds) and Karen’s (Tracie Thoms) foster license was revoked, while Bobby (Peter Krause) and Athens (Angela Basset) lost their home in a fire.

Eddy Diaz (Ryan Guzman), meanwhile said a heartbreaking farewell to his son Christopher (Gavin McHugh), after he was caught having a secret affair with a woman who looked exactly like his late wife, Shannon (Devin Kelley).

‘I want a solution. I want to show that Eddie can be a good person, but that doesn’t make for great TV,” Guzman said exclusively We weekly in June about his season 8 hopes for Eddie. “So I want to show some relatability in Eddie. I see more often than not that when someone is dealing with something so difficult, they go back to our comfort zone. And [Eddie’s] The comfort zone is not expressing his feelings, it is staying closer to the book, doing his job to the best of his ability, almost becoming a soldier-like individual and just accomplishing what is in front of him.

“We also know that Eddie is a very emotional person,” he added. “There’s an anger that just comes from him, and we’ve seen it when he fights. So by having that volatility and suppressing it, I think that’s what I want to see for next season.

Guzman’s wish for Eddie to fall back into a “soldier-like” routine may well come true. In the final moments of the season 7 finale, it was revealed that the 118 had been taken over by the strict – and homophobic and racist – Captain Vincent Gerrard (Brian Thompson), who ran the station before Bobby arrived in LA

Keep scrolling for everything you need to know about season 8 of the ABC procedural:

When does ‘9-1-1’ season 8 premiere?

The show was renewed days after its 100th episode aired in April 2024. Season 8 premieres on ABC Thursday, September 26 at 8pm ET. This will be followed by the new series Doctor Odyssey and Grey’s Anatomy at 9 p.m season 21 at 10 p.m

How many episodes will ‘9-1-1’ season 8 have?

Although season 7 was shortened to 10 episodes due to the Hollywood strikes, season 8 will contain a whopping 18 episodes.

Where can you watch season 8 of ‘9-1-1’?

The episodes air on ABC Thursdays at 8pm ET and will be available to stream on Hulu the next day.

Who’s in the cast of ‘9-1-1’ season 8?

As of now, the existing 9-1-1 cast members appear to be on board for season 8, including Bassett as Athena Grant, Krause as Bobby Nash, Stark as Evan “Buck” Buckley, Guzman as Edide Diaz, Choi as Chimney Han, Hinds as Henrietta “Hen” Wilson and Hewitt as Maddie Buckley.

While Eddie’s son, Christopher (McHugh), is expected to return, Guzman shared TVLine in June that fans wouldn’t expect to see the duo together on screen right away after Christopher moved to Texas with his grandparents in the season 7 finale.

“I know for sure in the first episode [of season 8]“We probably won’t see Eddie and Christopher together,” Guzman told the outlet. “My hope is that Eddie will have a good chunk of time without Christopher, giving him a chance to find new structure, maybe rework who he is a little bit and find new textures of life for him.”

What is season 8 of ‘9-1-1’ about?

While much of the season 8 plot is being kept under wraps, a teaser has been posted via ABC and 9-1-1s Official social media accounts in July featured the show’s logo against a black background with a swarm of bees buzzing around it.

“What’s all the fuss about?” read the Instagram caption. “A new season of #911onABC premieres September 26 at 8/7c on ABC and Stream on Hulu.”

No other details have been given, but the series has a history of introducing a major catastrophic event at the start of each season.

There is also the question of the future of the 118 after it was revealed in the season 7 finale that Captain Vincent Gerrard (Thompson) had returned to take over after Bobby briefly retired. Krause said TVLine in June that he’s excited to see what kind of excitement that brings.

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“I like them bumping into each other,” he explained. “I could tell Gerrard had a real grudge against Bobby because he got all this positive attention after he took over the firehouse from Gerrard, and now he wants it back.”

Bobby and Athena are also homeless after their house is destroyed by a fire. Krause said he and showrunner Tim Minear have theorized about what could happen for the couple, including that they would live in “an apartment or hotel and be cooped up together again.”

“Their relationship is deeper and stronger now, and I think we can handle a little comedy,” he said. “I also gave a pitch [Tim] that they might go on a camper trip together as a second chance at a honeymoon. So I don’t know if that will ever happen or not, but I mean, it’s an RV trip. What could go wrong?”