Once a doctor always a doctor? Not so fast, says Morris Chestnut, who plays one in the new series, “Watson.” Here, instead of approaching medicine in a straightforward manner, he looks upon it as a mystery. Because it’s based on the Sherlock Holmes saga, it also has an overriding crime to solve.
“This is one of the first times where we’re doctors and detectives,” Chestnut says. His past tours of duty – in “Nurse Jackie,” “Rosewood” and “The Resident” – were more traditional. In the series, Watson has established the Holmes Clinic in Pittsburgh after the death of Sherlock Holmes by the hands of Moriarty.
The venture is designed to treat patients with strange and unidentifiable issues. In the meantime, he hopes to discover what motivated Holmes’ killer. His team – an eclectic mix of specialists – has the kind of expertise that can get at clues others may have missed.
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Ingrid Derian, Inga Schlingmann as Dr. Sasha Lubbock, and Morris Chestnut as Dr. John Watson.
Colin Bentley/CBS For creator Craig Sweeny, the blend of medicine and mystery was ideal (“It fit me like a comfortable shoe”) and drew on his past with series like “Elementary,” “Medium” and “Limitless.” “The show’s medical godfather is a geneticist..
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