Joshua Jackson Speaks Out on ‘Doctor Odyssey' Cancellation: ‘I'm Sad We Don't Get to Go Back and Do It Again'
In a new interview, the actor, who portrayed cruise line doctor Max Bankman, said that he's 'always bummed out when a show gets canceled' and that he 'really, really enjoyed the experience' he had on the Ryan Murphy series.
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'That was a really good group of people, and it was a really fun show,' he told People, adding that he definitely will miss the cast. 'But this is a crazy and difficult business, and whatever the reasons were for them not wanting to move forward with it, they don't actually tell us those things… It's a bummer we don't get to do it again, but I'm happy for the time that we got.'
He noted that he hopes the audience got the same thing the cast did: 'It was a beautiful, over-the-top kind of experience that was like nothing else on television, I don't think.'
The drama was on the bubble until June, when Variety reported that the cast's contracts expired and there were no plans to place it back on the schedule. Jackson confirmed that his contract was up, adding, 'They may make that show with somebody else. I have no idea what their plans are. They haven't let me know, but I am not holding my breath that it's coming back.'
Along with Jackson, 'Doctor Odyssey' starred Phillipa Soo as Avery Morgan, a nurse practitioner, Sean Teale as Tristan Silva, a nurse, and Don Johnson as Robert Massey, the Odyssey's captain.
The series followed the emergency staff as they worked on a luxury cruise line with themed visitors each week. Recurring cast members included Jacqueline Toboni, Marcus Emanuel Mitchell, Rick Cosnett and Laura Harrier as chef Vivian, with prominent guest stars, like Rachel Dratch, Shania Twain, Kelsea Ballerini and Angela Bassett.
In May, three of the show's former crew members filed a lawsuit against 20th Television and Disney, accusing assistant prop master Tyler Patton of 'unwanted touching' and making 'sexual jokes, innuendos, comments, sexual gestures and images.' The lawsuit claimed the studio enabled an 'unchecked campaign of sexual harassment for months.'
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