Abigail Spencer to Star Opposite Josh Charles in Fox's Doc Martin Adaptation
Spencer has joined the cast of Fox's upcoming Best Medicine, TVLine has learned. She'll play Louisa Glasson, whom the official character description calls 'a warm, charming local school teacher who immediately gets off on the wrong foot with Martin Best' — a frosty physician played by Charles — 'yet she's intrigued by him…'
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Based on the British medical dramedy Doc Martin and described as a 'charmingly complicated one-hour comedy,' Best Medicine centers on Charles' character, 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.'
Martin's bedside manner leaves much to be desired, and the locals don't love him. But what the townies don't know, the official logline says, '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.'
Fox ordered the adaptation to series in May. Production starts this summer in Upstate New York, and the series is slated to premiere during the 2025-26 TV season.
In addition to Timeless, Spencer's TV work includes Rectify, True Detective, Mad Men, Grey's Anatomy, Suits, Extended Family and 9-1-1.
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