BEST MEDICINE: Fox Orders Josh Charles-Led One-Hour Comedy to Series

Fox has ordered BEST MEDICINE, a one-hour comedy, to series. The show, based on the series DOC MARTIN, will debut during the 2025-26 season.

Josh Charles will star in the show as “the peculiar and brilliant” Doctor Martin Best.

According to Fox, “The series centers on Martin Best, 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, and he quickly alienates the town, even though he’s all they’ve got. Although Martin can expertly address any medical ailment or mystery in this idiosyncratic town, he’s really just desperate to be left the hell alone. Instead, he keeps getting dragged right smack into the middle of their personal chaos, feuds and fantasies. What the locals don’t know is that Martin’s terse demeanor masks a debilitating new phobia and deep-seated psychological issues that prevent him from experiencing true intimacy with anyone. But tenacity is the creed of everyone in their small village, and the people who live there may be exactly what the doctor ordered.”

“The story of Doc Martin has resonated worldwide with its humanity, originality, and humor, and with BEST MEDICINE coming to FOX, that eccentricity gets a smalltown America spin, complete with idyllic charm and absurdity,” said Michael Thorn, President of FOX Television Network, in a statement. “Liz [Tuccillo], Mark [Crowdy], Philippa [Braithwaite], Ben [Silverman], and Rodney [Ferrell] have done a terrific job adapting this signature character for the Fox audience, especially in casting the terrifically talented Josh Charles as our lead.”

Added Silverman said, “The entire Propagate team is thrilled to be working with Fox Entertainment on this extraordinary adaptation by Liz Tuccillo of the global hit Doc Martin. Josh Charles is the perfect lead for this brilliantly character-driven comedic procedural. BEST MEDICINE is a world we’ll all want to be part of.”

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