The Italian medical series Doc will officially get its American remake rights. According to exclusive information DeadlineFox has ordered an adaptation of Luca Argentero’s worn fiction without a pilot box.
The series should be aired in the 2023/2024 season. This new iteration of Doc will be directed by Barbie Kligman, who primarily worked as a screenwriter and producer on Magnum PI with Hank Steinberg (for Life), and Erwin Stoff will serve as executive producer.
When season 1 aired in Italy in 2020, Sony Pictures Television acquired the rights to Doc to be able to distribute the series in other countries (notably France, Spain or the United Kingdom), but also suggested possible local adaptations. After three years, the American remake project was finally realized.
But if in the original version, adapted from the true story of Pierdante Piccioni, the series followed the fate of Andrea Fanti, a doctor who lost his memory after being shot and who had to relearn his profession in order to be able to. Keep up the practice, the US iteration will be led by a female character, Dr. Amy Elias, chief of internal medicine at Westside Hospital in Minneapolis.
After a brain injury that erased the last eight years of her life, she must navigate an unfamiliar world where she has no memory of the patients she treated, the colleagues she met, the husband she separated from, the man she loves today, and the tragedy that led to her Rejected by those around.
All he can hope for is his 17-year-old daughter, who he remembers as 9-year-old, and a handful of loyal friends as he tries to continue practicing medicine despite the loss of nearly a decade of knowledge and experience. .
At this time, Fox has not yet announced the cast of this new series. However, it’s possible that Luca Argentero, who has already proven his mastery of Shakespearean language in Eat Pray Loves, will make a cameo, as will Simona Tabasco and Beatrice Granno, who starred in the second season of White Lotus.
Created by Francesco Arlanchi and Viola Rispoli, Doc aired in Italy in 2020 on Rai 1, where it achieved spectacular ratings and became the channel’s most watched series since 2007. A 16-episode second season was offered in 2022. In France, fiction. It was broadcast on TF1.
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