Morris Chestnut‘s new CBS Studios’ collection, Watson, a fast-paced medical drama impressed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-adapted tales of detective Sherlock Holmes, premiered on Sunday on the Marché Worldwide des Programmes de Communication (MIPCOM) in Cannes, France. “One of many issues that excited me most in regards to the present is that it’s a contemporary tackle the mythology,” Chestnut stated of his new collection. The brand new drama kicked off the worldwide tv market MIPCOM with a world premiere of the story informed from Dr.
John Watson’s perspective and “by a medical somewhat than a legal lense,” famous Chestnut. “Nevertheless it nonetheless pays nice respects to the Sherlock Holmes tales.” Chestnut performs Watson, Holmes’ iconic sidekick, who, within the new present’s telling, resumes his medical profession as the pinnacle of a clinic treating uncommon issues after the demise of his good friend and companion.
However he quickly finds that his outdated life isn’t fairly executed with him but. In a twist on different Sherlock variations, Watson focuses on medical mysteries as an alternative of detective tales. As one physician protests within the pilot, “We’re docs.
Not detectives.” Within the pilot episode, directed by Larry Teng, Watson is confronted with a case of deadly familial insomnia which is coupled with the problem of attempting to assist a pregnant girl with the neurodegenerative prion illness dwell lengthy suffici.