Doc, Doc, goose?!....the main cast for the U.S. version of 'Doc Martin' aligning.....

[NewtonMP2100]

.....called 'Best Medicine' on Fox.......Josh Charles 1st cast as 'Doc Martin'......

......Abigail Spencer, as local school teacher Louisa Glasson.....

......Josh Segarra, cast as Mark Mylow, a lovable sheriff who is excited to befriend Martin.......

.....now Annie Potts as Aunt Joan, “a strong, sturdy, lobster woman who still goes out every day on her boat.....


Annie Potts Joins Fox’s Doc Martin Adaptation

....Meemaw no more?

Annie Potts (Designing Women, Young Sheldon) has been cast in Best Medicine, Fox‘s adaptation of the popular UK series Doc Martin.

Described as a “charmingly complicated one-hour comedy,” Best Medicine centers on Dr. Martin Best (played by The Good Wife’s Josh Charles), “a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child. Unfortunately, Martin’s blunt and borderline rude bedside manner rubs the quirky, needy locals the wrong way, especially local school teacher Louisa Glasson (Timeless’ Abigail Spencer), however tenacity is the creed of everyone in their small village, and the people who live there may be exactly what the doctor ordered.”

Potts will inhabit the series-regular role of Aunt Joan, “a strong, sturdy, lobster woman who still goes out every day on her boat, and no one better tell her to stop if they know what’s good for them. She’s salt of the earth and underneath her stern demeanor she has a heart as big as the sea. She loves her small Maine town and her cranky nephew. She’s loyal but stubborn, the kind of woman you want to be around and not disappoint. But even Joan will have a few secrets — including why she ended up losing touch with Martin so many years before.”

The ensemble also includes Josh Segarra, who was previously cast as Mark Mylow, a lovable sheriff who is excited to befriend Martin… though maybe less so once Martin grows close to Mark’s ex-girlfriend, Louisa!

Potts recurred throughout Season 1 of CBS’ Young Sheldon spinoff, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, appearing in four (out of 22) episodes. Production on Best Medicine will take place this summer in upstate New York and premiere on Fox at midseason, which should not preclude Potts from resurfacing on Georgie & Mandy at some point in Season 2 (which received a full, 22-episode order and will air Thursdays this fall).......


...........what's up..........Doc............?!

[SteveG]

As a fan of Doc Martin, I'd guess at a complete disaster for this version.

[rgG]

Yeah, I wonder if it will be half as good as the original.

[ztirffritz]

I wonder how they'll manage the single lane, two-way roads in New England...I love the scene in one of the first episodes where he's driving along and a lorry appears out of nowhere on the single lane road and somehow manages to pass him.

I tried to look up the scene.  Apparently there were several of them.