Daniella Alonso isn’t returning for the second season of NBC’s “The Night Shift.”
Alonso’s role as the night shift’s lone psychiatrist, Dr. Landry De La Cruz, won’t continue amid a change in creative direction on Season 2.
“We’re opening up and getting more surgery and more of the paramedic world,” executive producer Jeff Judah said during Friday’s Television Critics Association press tour panel for the show.
After the panel, executive producer Gabe Sachs elaborated on Alonso’s departure. “She’s amazing,” he told TheWrap.
“But the way the stories went,” he continued,” creatively we just decided to focus more on the ER stuff.