Fox has discovered the feminine lead for its forthcoming sequence Finest Drugs.
Abigail Spencer (Gray’s Anatomy, Rectify) will star reverse Josh Charles within the sequence, an adaptation of the long-running British dramedy Doc Martin. Spencer will play Louisa Glasson, a trainer within the small East Coast fishing village the place Dr. Martin Finest (Charles) relocates after leaving a embellished profession as a surgeon in Boston.
Fox describes Finest Drugs as an hour-long comedy following Martin, who abruptly leaves his submit in Boston to work as a normal practitioner within the city the place he spent summers as a child. “Sadly,” the present’s logline reads, “Martin’s blunt and borderline impolite bedside method rubs the quirky, needy locals the flawed means, particularly native faculty trainer Louisa Glasson. Nevertheless, tenacity is the creed of everybody of their small village, and the individuals who stay there could also be precisely what the physician ordered.”
Manufacturing on Finest Drugs is slated to start later in the summertime in upstate New York for a midseason premiere date on Fox’s 2025-26 schedule.
Fox Leisure Studios is producing the sequence, which Fox will totally personal. Liz Tuccillo govt produces with Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens and Rodney Ferrell of Propagate Content material and Doc Martin EPs Mark Crowdy and Philippa Braithwaite.
Spencer most lately had a guest-starring arc on ABC’s 911. Her TV credit additionally embody Mad Males, Timeless, Prolonged Household and Fits. She is repped by UTA, Untitled Leisure and Hansen Jacobsen.