Exclusive: Morris Chestnut on executive producing and starring in new series ‘Watson’
Currently airing on CBS is the new medical drama series Watson, executive produced and starring Morris Chestnut.
WATSON takes place six months after the death of the titular character’s friend and partner Sherlock Holmes at the hands of Moriarty. The show stars Morris Chestnut as Dr. John Watson, who resumes his medical career as the head of a clinic dedicated to treating rare disorders. Watson’s old life isn’t done with him, though – Moriarty and Watson are set to write their own chapter of a story that has fascinated audiences for more than a century. Watson is a medical show with a strong investigative spine, featuring a modern version of one of history’s greatest detectives as he turns his attention from solving crimes to solving medical mysteries.
WATSON also stars Eve Harlow, Peter Mark Kendall, Ritchie Coster, Inga Schlingmann and Rochelle Aytes.
Watson is produced by CBS Studios. Craig Sweeny wrote the premiere episode and serves as showrunner and executive producer. Additional executive producers include Morris Chestnut; Sallie Patrick; Larry Teng; Shäron Moalem MD, PhD; Aaron Kaplan for Kapital Entertainment; and Brian Morewitz.
This marks Chestnut’s return to the medical arena after his series regular roles as doctors on Fox’s The Resident and Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. He also played the lead, a pathologist, on Fox’s crime drama Rosewood. In 2023, Chestnut won his second NAACP award for for Peacock’s The Best Man: The Final Chapters. (His first was for his work on Nurse Jackie.) He was recently seen as a series regular in the second season of Onyx’s drama series Reasonable Doubt on Hulu and recurred in the BET+ series Diarra from Detroit.
Blackfilmandtv.com correspondent Sharifa Daniels talks to Morris Chestnut on his new series Watson.
