Watson (TV series)

Watson (TV series)
Information
Created by	Craig Sweeny
Written by	and
Starring	Morris Chestnut
Series	Season: Season One
Air date	January 26, 2025 –

Watson (TV series) is described as a "medical drama with detective elements", and is centered around the character of Dr. John Watson from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories series, that premiered on CBS on January 26, 2025.

It is the second CBS series to adapt the Holmes stories, after Elementary. While the two programs are otherwise unrelated, their creative teams overlap.

Plot

One year after Sherlock Holmes's apparent death at the hands of his archenemy Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls ("The Final Problem"), Dr. John Watson resumes his medical practice by opening the "Holmes Clinic" in Pittsburgh to treat patients with strange and unidentifiable issues. Soon however, Watson must face his past when evidence surfaces indicating that Moriarty is still alive.

Cast

Main

• Morris Chestnut as Dr. John Watson, a clinical geneticist and former London-based consulting detective who heads the Holmes Clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. To aid his patients' cases, he applies a specific and incisive type of deductive reasoning that he learned from his years working with Sherlock Holmes.
  • Kevin Vidal plays Watson as a younger nurse in the episode "Take a Family History".
• Eve Harlow as Ingrid Derian, an aloof but highly skilled neurologist with an enigmatic past. She has a shaky relationship with her colleagues owing to her stony manner and questionable methods.
  • Amanda Arcuri plays a teenage Ingrid in the episode "Take a Family History".
• Peter Mark Kendall as Stephens Croft and Adam Croft, identical twin brothers, acting as infectious disease and functional medicine specialists at the clinic. Stephens, a Johns Hopkins graduate, is an emotionally withdrawn workaholic, while Adam, who attended Boston University, talks too much. They have a strained relationship, owing to the fact Adam is dating Stephens' ex-fiancée.
• Inga Schlingmann as Sasha Lubbock, an affable specialist in rheumatology and immunology. She is torn between her birth parents from China and her adoptive family from Dallas.
• Ritchie Coster as Shinwell Johnson, a former criminal from London and an acquaintance of Holmes and Watson who works as the clinic's administrative aide, his connections often proving very useful to the team.
• Rochelle Aytes as Mary Morstan, a noted East Coast surgeon and Watson's estranged wife who serves as the clinic's medical director. Despite their impending divorce, she maintains a productive working relationship with Watson, acting as his voice of sanity and attempting to rein in his more irregular techniques.

Recurring

• Randall Park as Professor James Moriarty, a criminal mastermind and Sherlock Holmes' archenemy who reemerges from his presumed death with a nefarious agenda
• Kacey Rohl as Hannah Burke, Moriarty's subordinate who forces Shinwell to carry out her employer's bidding
• Louriza Tronco as Reyes, a nurse at the clinic

Guest

• Nat Faxon as Hobie McSorley, an experimental geneticist and old friend of Watson's with a colorful personality.
• Kiera Allen as Gigi Grigoryan, Ingrid's paraplegic sister. Beatrice Schneider plays a teenaged Gigi.
• Amanda Crew as Lauren, a lawyer and Stephens' ex-girlfriend who is presently dating Adams
• Matt Berry as the voice of Sherlock Holmes, a brilliant British consulting detective and Watson's best friend who was seemingly killed alongside Moriarty. Berry voices the character as an auditory hallucination.
• Whoopie Van Raam as Irene Adler, a con artist and the only woman ever to outwit Holmes who turns to Watson in a moment of desperation
• Sebastian Billingsley-Rodriguez as Angus Adler, Irene's young son who might be the offspring of Sherlock Holmes
• Vincent Gale as Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's older brother who previously crossed paths with Watson
• Andy Bean as Ivo Derian, Ingrid and Gigi's father
• Rachel Hayward as Detective Lestrade, a veteran Pittsburgh Police Department investigator who is initially skeptical of Watson's theories
• Tika Sumpter as Laila Bynum, a pediatric oncologist who forms a relationship with Watson