Annie Potts has joined the cast of “Best Medicine,” Fox‘s upcoming U.S. adaptation of the hit U.K. medical dramedy “Doc Martin.”
The series stars Josh Charles as Martin Best, a brilliant surgeon whose gruff, lone-wolf attitude sticks out when he moves from Boston to a quaint fishing town in Maine. Underneath his harsh exterior he masks debilitating psychological issues that prevent him from connecting with others, but that stands to change as he gets dragged into the chaotic social sphere of the locals.
Potts will play Martin’s aunt Joan, who is described as “strong, sturdy, lobster woman who still goes out every day on her boat, and no one better tell her to stop if they know what’s good for them. She’s salt of the earth and underneath her stern demeanor she has a heart as big as the sea. She loves her small Maine town and her cranky nephew. She’s loyal but stubborn, the kind of woman you want to be around and not disappoint. But even Joan will have a few secrets — including why she ended up losing touch with Martin so many years before.” In the original series, Joan was played by Stephanie Cole.
Along with Charles and Potts, the cast includes Josh Segarra as sheriff Mark Mylow and Abigail Spencer as schoolteacher Louisa Glasson.
Potts is known for film roles including Janine Melnitz in the “Ghostbusters” movies and Iona in “Pretty in Pink” as well as voicing Bo Peep in the “Toy Story” movies. On television, she starred as Mary Jo Shively in “Designing Women,” which ran on CBS for seven seasons from 1986 to 1993, and as Dana Palladino in “Love & War,” another CBS sitcom that ran for three seasons from 1992 to 1995. More recently, Potts has appeared in “Young Sheldon” and its spinoff “Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage,” with other credits including “Chicago Med,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “The Fosters” and more.
She is repped by Innovative Artists, Framework Entertainment and Myman, Greenspan, Fineman, Fox.
“Best Medicine” is executive produced by Ben Silverman, Rodney Ferrel, Howard T. Owens, Liz Tuccillo, Mark Crowdy and Philippa Braithwaite. The original series was produced by Buffalo Pictures in association with Homerun Film Productions based on a format from All3Media and distributed by Propagate Content.
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