Morris Chestnut‘s new CBS Studios’ sequence, 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 concerning the present is that it’s a recent tackle the mythology,” Chestnut mentioned of his new sequence.
The brand new drama kicked off the worldwide tv market MIPCOM with a world premiere of the story advised from Dr. John Watson’s perspective and “by way of a medical relatively than a legal lense,” famous Chestnut. “However 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 top of a clinic treating uncommon issues after the demise of his buddy and accomplice. However he quickly finds that his previous life just isn’t fairly completed with him but.
In a twist on different Sherlock variations, Watson focuses on medical mysteries as a substitute of detective tales. As one physician protests within the pilot, “We’re medical doctors. 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 reside lengthy sufficient to ship her child.
Chestnut mentioned that the present, at its core, is a procedural that includes a central case in every episode because the characters evolve and develop over the sequence.
Watson showrunner Craig Sweeny (Elementary, Star Trek: Part 31) wrote the pilot episode and is government producing alongside Chestnut, Sallie Patrick, Teng, Shäron Moalem, Brian Morewitz and Aaron Kaplan for Kapital Leisure.
The CBS Studios-produced sequence is about to debut on Jan 26 on CBS.
CBS Studios used the MIPCOM premiere to kick off Watson‘s worldwide rollout and the community’s father or mother, Paramount International, is relying on market demand for high-end procedurals that may carry out on each conventional broadcasters and streaming platforms.
MIPCOM, the world’s main worldwide tv market, runs Oct. 21-24.