Morris Chestnut stars in the procedural, which follows Dr. Watson after the death of his crime-solving partner as he shifts focus to medical mysteries.
a fast-paced medical drama inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-adapted stories of detective Sherlock Holmes, premiered on Sunday at the Marché
“One of the things that excited me most about the show is that it’s a fresh take on the mythology,” Chestnut said of his new series. The new drama kicked off the international television market MIPCOM with a world premiere of the story told from Dr. John Watson’s perspective and “through a medical rather than a criminal lense,” noted Chestnut. “But it still pays great respects to the Sherlock Holmes stories.”Chestnut plays Watson, Holmes’ iconic sidekick, who, in the new show’s telling, resumes his medical career as the head of a clinic treating rare disorders after the death of his friend and partner.
In the pilot episode, directed by Larry Teng, Watson is confronted with a case of fatal familial insomnia which is coupled with the challenge of trying to help a pregnant woman with the neurodegenerative prion disease live long enough to deliver her baby. Chestnut said that the show, at its core, is a procedural that features a central case in each episode as the characters evolve and develop over the series.) wrote the pilot episode and is executive producing alongside Chestnut, Sallie Patrick, Teng, Shäron Moalem, Brian Morewitz and Aaron Kaplan for Kapital Entertainment.
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