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Perth Now
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Joshua Jackson speaks out on Doctor Odyssey cancellation
Joshua Jackson is "bummed out" by the cancellation of Doctor Odyssey. The 47-year-old actor had a great time filming the medical drama and has been left mystified as to why it was axed by ABC after just one season, despite giving the network its most-watched debut drama in five years. He told People magazine: "I'm always bummed out when a show gets cancelled. I really, really enjoyed the experience. "That was a really good group of people, and it was a really fun show. "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. "I'm going to miss the gang for sure." Joshua is "sad" he won't get to return to the show but he hoped fans still had a great time watching. He said: "I hope they got the same thing that we got out of it, which was that it was a beautiful, over-the-top kind of experience that was like nothing else on television, I don't think. "I'm sad that we don't get to go back and do it again. But I really enjoyed the time that we did get to do it." The former Dawson's Creek star confirmed his contract had "lapsed" so the show was cancelled by default, and though there is always a possibility Doctor Odyssey could return with a new cast, he thinks it is unlikely. He said: "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." Doctor Odyssey was co-created by Ryan Murphy and the actor heaped praise on his experience working with the American Horror Story showrunner. He said: "He dreams up incredible worlds, and he puts together great teams, both in front of the camera and behind the camera. "So I know everybody from that show is going to be okay, everybody's good. It's a bummer we don't get to do it again, but I'm happy for the time that we got."
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Joshua Jackson Speaks Out on ‘Doctor Odyssey' Cancellation: ‘I'm Sad We Don't Get to Go Back and Do It Again'
Joshua Jackson isn't sure why 'Doctor Odyssey' was canceled by ABC after one season, but he will miss the wacky medical drama. 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. More from Variety 'Doctor Odyssey' Canceled at ABC After One Season 'Doctor Odyssey' Crewmembers Sue Disney for Alleged Sexual Harassment on Set, 'Blacklisting' Them After Filing Complaint Disney's Craig Erwich on Broadcast TV's Resurgence, Fates of 'Doctor Odyssey' and 'The Bachelor' - and Which Ratings Matter Most (EXCLUSIVE) '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.' Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts? Final Emmy Predictions: Talk Series and Scripted Variety - New Blood Looks to Tackle Late Night Staples
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Joshua Jackson Admits He's ‘Bummed Out' by Doctor Odyssey Cancellation: ‘It Was a Really Fun Show'
Weeks after Doctor Odyssey's cancellation after one season, Joshua Jackson is saying goodbye to the ABC sudser. 'I'm sad that we don't get to go back and do it again,' Jackson told People. 'But I really enjoyed the time that we did get to do it.' More from TVLine Doctor Odyssey's Cancellation Fits Right Into Our Fever Dream Theory (Just Let Us Have This One) Doctor Odyssey Cancelled at ABC After One Season ABC Sets Fall Premiere Dates for 9-1-1: Nashville, High Potential, Grey's and More - Most Scripted Shows Held for October The cast's options for a second season were not picked up when they expired back in June, according to our sister site Deadline, meaning that they are free to book other roles. Though not a formal cancellation, if ABC does eventually want Doctor Odyssey to return, producers would need to re-sign all lead actors to new deals; Jackson doesn't anticipate that happening. 'They may make that show with somebody else,' Jackson shared. '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.' He added that he's 'always bummed out when a show gets cancelled' and that he 'really, really enjoyed the experience.' 'That was a really good group of people, and it was a really fun show,' he said. 'I'm going to miss the gang for sure.' The modern-day Love Boat starred Jackson as Max Bankman, the onboard doctor of the Odyssey, a cruise ship helmed by Captain Massey (played by Miami Vice's Don Johnson). Dr. Max treated the ship's many medical emergencies alongside nurses Avery (Shining Girls' Phillipa Soo) and Tristan (The Gifted's Sean Teale), but things got messy after the group had a threesome, resulting in plenty of love triangle drama. During the course of its freshman run, the Ryan Murphy series' glitzy look and pandemic origins prompted TVLine to develop the Fever Dream Theory, arguing that Max never recovered from COVID. As we theorized, The Odyssey wasn't a ship it all — it was Heaven, beckoning Max to 'cross over' to the other side. Jackson has not explicitly confirmed the theory, but did previously admit that they 'had a similar theory operating on set.' Do you share Jackson's disappointment abos cancellation? Hit the comments with your reactions! Best of TVLine 'Missing' Shows, Found! Get the Latest on Ahsoka, Monarch, P-Valley, Sugar, Anansi Boys and 25+ Others Yellowjackets Mysteries: An Up-to-Date List of the Series' Biggest Questions (and Answers?) The Emmys' Most Memorable Moments: Laughter, Tears, Historical Wins, 'The Big One' and More


CBC
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Joshua Jackson on how audiobooks expand his imagination as a performer
From Dawson's Creek to Little Fires Everywhere, Vancouver-born actor Joshua Jackson is known for taking on characters enmeshed in the drama of the every day. As a reader, he's drawn towards fictional dramas that err on the side of the supernatural. On The Next Chapter with Antonio Michael Downing, Jackson shares that some of his favourite books include Farley Mowat's Canadian classic Never Cry Wolf, Frank Herbert's Dune Chronicles and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Joshua Jackson had to make a tricky transition before Dawson's Creek "Sci-fi is not necessarily my go-to, but it has been over the course of my life," he says. "I love going back to this world because I find new things when I come back to it and it does an amazing job of taking me to an absolutely out of my possibility realm, but allowing my feet to be on the ground there." He brings his love of sci-fi and fantasy into his audiobook narration of Andrew Pyper's thriller series, Oracle, where he plays Nate Russo, an FBI agent who solves homicide cases through psychic visions. The series continues in Oracle 3: Murder at the Grandview where Russo is called in to piece together a tragedy on an island after a friend reunion goes awry. The latest instalment is the first audiobook by Pyper to be released posthumously. The celebrated Canadian writer was best known for his spine-tingling novels, including Lost Girls and The Demonologist and William, a modern haunted house novel written under the pseudonym Mason Coile. Pyper died on Jan. 3, 2025 at the age of 56. Jackson credited Pyper's lush and eerie description as one of the main reasons he took on the project, "He creates these [audiobooks] in a way that is hard to do with the written word." "[Pyper] creates textural worlds: the walls are dripping and the air is heavy and the characters are embodied," says Jackson. "In our case, it makes the horror feel, at least for me, present … I can see this world in my head as it's unfolding on the page." For Jackson, reading in the form of audiobooks only adds to his experience of a story, especially in speculative fiction where you often have to suspend your disbelief and imagine otherworldly places. "I find that the experience of an audiobook allows my imagination to wander," he says. "I find flights of fancy much easier to digest in an audiobook format than, say, denser texts." Jackson's narration of Pyper's Oracle 3: Murder at the Grandview is available as part of Amazon's Canadian Audible Original series.


Globe and Mail
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Globe and Mail
A summer of tree-planting made Ron Sexsmith a songwriter
Before Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith became famous for gut-wrenching songs like Secret Heart, the so-called 'One-Man Jukebox' was known for his knack for covering other people's music. One pivotal summer, Sexsmith found both the confidence to write his own music and the money to make a demo deep in the Northern Canadian wilderness. In this week's 'How I Spent My Summer,' the 61-year-old rocker tells us how planting trees made him a musician proper. I'd been playing music forever but knew I wanted to record a demo of my own stuff. The summer after I turned 20, someone told me I could make lots of money in a few months by tree-planting up in Northern Ontario. I went in for an interview with my friend, who was just as green as I was. When they saw us, they didn't think either of us could do it on our own, so they sort of hired us as one person. They were right: I was a city kid from St. Catharines, Ont., and I hadn't done any real physical labour before. I wasn't a camper or an outdoors person. I didn't have any of the right gear and I was wearing the wrong footwear. We had to bring our own tents, but the guy that lent me my tent forgot the poles. Another planter had an extra tent, but I still felt like I was really roughing it. It was almost like being in the army or on M.A.S.H. or something. The summer that Joshua Jackson realized he wasn't a morning person I was on a crew of about 30 and we'd all get up at 5 in the morning. We were lucky to have a cooking crew, so two or three people were in charge of food. They'd make these absolutely enormous breakfast buffets. We could all eat whatever we wanted, not only because we were young but also because we were burning calories all day long. After breakfast, they'd drive us to whatever site they wanted us to plant that day. You had this belt to wear with bags attached, filled with baby trees. You plant the trees, you come back for more trees, you plant again, and you do that all day. Some people were great at it and planted 3,000 a day; I was doing 1,500, maybe. Slow-planters like me were called 'low-ballers.' The bugs took a liking to me and I was busy getting eaten alive. When we started there was still snow on the ground and by the end of the season it was scorching. In between, sometimes there'd be four seasons in a day. Some days, you were cold, wet and miserable. But other days you'd find yourself on top of a hill overlooking a forest with the sun shining, and it'd be beautiful. The summer job that put actor Tantoo Cardinal at the heart of a tiny Alberta town I'd brought my guitar with me, and at night I'd sing around the campfire. It's wild because people came from all over the world to go tree-planting. There was a guy from Egypt, a fellow from Holland. There were different languages and different accents. I'd never really been anywhere before, so to see all these different cultures converging in the Canadian wilderness was so interesting. They had big opinions about art and politics – which I didn't have yet – as they were free spirits on the fringe like pirates or something. I think musicians are a bit like that too. It's hard to put my finger on why, but meeting people from all over made my music better. One man from Louisiana would knock on my tent and say, 'Play me that Bob Dylan song again?' It reminded him of home. I saw the world more deeply and it came out in my music. It was also so good for my character to be cold, wet and dirty for four months. That summer is what made me a songwriter. One by one, people quit – because of the elements, the black flies, the knowledge you were making like nine cents a tree. The friend I came with didn't last more than two weeks. Sometimes people would quit just because they couldn't stand the sight of a particular person anymore. I remember leaving on the last day, riding in the back of the truck on my way back to civilization. This feeling of pride came over me, like, man, I really did it. Of 30, there were only 11 of us left by the end of the season. I was so proud to be one of them. As told to Rosemary Counter