Disney+ has canceled the series “Doogie Kamealoha: Doctor Precocious”, due for release in 2021. The news comes five months after the second season of the series, inspired by the 80s youth hit “Like Father, Like Son” (Doogie Howser MD).
Created by Steven Bochco and David E. Kelley, the original 1989 attraction catapulted Neil Patrick Harris to stardom as a 16-year-old prodigy who becomes America’s youngest doctor working at a Los Angeles hospital together to his father.
The new version was developed by Kourtney Kang, who worked with Neil Patrick Harris when she wrote and produced “How I Met Your Mother” between 2005 and 2014. The storyline features a gender reversal in the lead roles, bringing Peyton Elizabeth Lee as a 16-year-old Genius who becomes the youngest resident doctor at a hospital in Hawaii, this time working alongside her mother.
The series explains that it earned its nickname “Doogie” precisely because its trajectory coincided with the plot of the classic series – that is, Doogie Howser was a fictional character in “Doogie Kamealoha”.
Besides the gender swap, the Hawaiian setting was another difference in the production, including a surfer father. But the existential conflicts caused by adult work in an age when the best thing in life was fun remained present.
Peyton Elizabeth Lee was already well known to Disney audiences for having experienced the role of the protagonist in the series “Andi Mack” from 13 to 15 years old (from 2017 to 2019).
His parents were played by Jason Scott Lee (“Mulan” villain) and Kathleen Rose Perkins (“I Am Not Ok with This”), and also starred Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman (“UnReal”), Matthew Sato (“Side Hustle: A Complicated Task”), Alex Aiono (“In Search of ‘Ohana”), Mapuana Makia (also of “In Search of ‘Ohana”), Emma Meisel (“American Horror Story”) and new arrived Wes Tian, among others.
Watch the original trailer for the attraction below.
Source: Terra
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